Next up for reading.
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Next up for reading.
[Cardinal] Rohan believed that Cagliostro exercised occult power: he could cure disease, transform metal into gold, and see into the future. When asked... whether he had any regrets about the life he had led, he replied that he still felt terrible about the assassination of Pompey...
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"The Affair of tbe Diamond Necklace" - reads like fiction, unsurprisingly the talk of Paris in 1785.
I recently binge watched The Serpent Queen on Starz & LOVED it. It‘s about Catherine de Medici, who was the queen regent of France in the 1500‘s. The show is based on the tagged book. It plays loose with history & has a magical realism element to it but I loved every second of this show. Catherine was such a badass. 😎
smartest one in the
room, always one step ahead —
the serpent queen reigns.
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #tvhaiku #history
Mme du Barry continued to be the favorite target of libellers... A scurrilous biography, Anecdotes secrètes sur Mme la comtesse du Barry, traced her career from the brothel to the royal bed...It became a top best seller in the underground book trade of the 1770s...
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Royal gossip clearly not new.
Image from "her" webpage.
http://www.madamedepompadour.com/_eng_pomp/home.htm
selon les mots de
Marie-Antoinette — qu‘ils
mangent de la brioche. 🍰
in the words of
Marie Antoinette —
let them eat cake. 🍰
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #frenchhaiku #MarieAntoinette
Not quite, AI, not quite... (prompt "Rousseau's cold remedy bottle")
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Of course, many earlier books, especially devotional tracts, had brought tears to the eyes of their readers, but La Nouvelle Héloïse released a flood: "tears," "sweet tears," "tears that are sweet," "delicious tears," "tears of tenderness." One reader sobbed so vehemently that he cured himself of a severe cold.
Today is the equinox, so the official start of Autumn, & in the short-lived French Revolutionary calendar, the start of the new year. And the day of grapes (each day was given the name of a produce, tool, animal or mineral). It has no bearing on real life, but I like to check which day it is in this calendar.
In RL, in France, we're still waiting for the new prime minister to form a government 😩
#majicmonday @Eggs
@xicanti, @Reggie, @lil1inblue
Rousseau addressed the paradox of his position as a novelist in two prefaces, which explained that novels were bad in themselves because they caused corruption, yet salutary in that they could inspire virtue among those already trapped in a corrupt society.
He also added a further paradox: "This novel is not a novel.
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!!! Cake and eating it!?
#BackPorchReading on a lovely Sunday morning 😍
I'm eager to get started on this as I'm always fascinated by the use of DNA in solving mysteries, real and ficticious.
