#bourbon restoration

[burningvelvet]

Lord Byron’s journal entry for April 19th 1814. He expresses his depression after the Bourbon Restoration:

"April 19. 1814.

There is ice at both poles, north and south — all extremes are the same — misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only, — to the emperor and the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned. There is, to be sure, a damned insipid medium — an equinoctial line — no one knows where, except upon maps and measurement.

‘And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death.'*

I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch-light; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume, and write, in Ipecacuanha, — ‘that the Bourbons are restored!!!' — 'Hang up philosophy.'** To be sure, I have long despised myself and man, but I never spat in the face of my species before — 'O fool! I shall go mad.'***”

* Macbeth ** Romeo and Juliet *** King Lear

#anti monarchy #lord byron #literature #english literature #dark academia #aesthetic #poetry #romanticism #history #writing #bourbon restoration #bourbon #france #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #regency #1800s #19th century #shakespeare #diaries #journals #macbeth #romeo and juliet #king lear

[joachimnapoleon]

Just released:

I had the privilege of reading the first draft of this, so I’m really looking forward to the final, polished version. Jonathan North has utilized archival sources from both France and Naples, including the diary of one of Murat’s aides who accompanied him on his final journey, to put together the most thorough examination of the events leading up to Murat’s death ever published.

The book is available now in the UK (see the post on Jonathan’s page linked below for where you can buy it from) and should be available in the US next month (Amazon shows December 30).

#books #Joachim Murat #Napoleon #Napoleonic wars #Naples #1815 #Bourbon Restoration #Jonathan North

[vivelareine]

An engraving of Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. This engraving was published on March 12th, 1815, just days before Napoleon returned to Paris for "The Hundred Days."

#19th century #bourbon restoration #french history #marie therese charlotte #art #engravings

[hayzeydayzey]

Gavarni dandies but Rich "eras"

(Rich is not 1830s but doesn't he look snazzy!)

#oc #original character #historical oc #1830s #paul gavarni #regency #napoleonic #bourbon restoration #art #traditional art #ink #sketchbook #my art

[tiny-librarian]

Miniature of Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme.

#marie therese charlotte #madame royale #duchesse d'angouleme #bourbon restoration #auction #french monarchy #french royal family #long live the queue

[empirearchives]

The White Terror and Political Reaction after Waterloo. By Daniel P. Resnick

#restoration #bourbon restoration #coalitions #napoleonic #penal code #napoleonic era #Napoleon #France #first french empire #Napoleonic code #the white terror #The White Terror and Political Reaction after Waterloo. By Daniel P. Resnick #napoleonic reforms #Napoleon’s reforms

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige Silk Dress, 1815-1820, Possibly French.

Worn by Mehetable Stoddard Sumner.

MFA Boston.

#beige #silk #womenswear #extant garments #19th century #dress #french #france #mehetable stoddard sumner #known wearer #mfa boston #1815 #1810s #1810s dress #1810s france #bourbon restoration #reign: Louis xviii

[shannonselin]

Detail of the coronation of Charles X, by François Gérard

The last of the senior French Bourbon kings, Charles X -- the "Don Juan of Versailles" -- died of cholera in Slovenia on November 6, 1836. For more about this wastrel and reactionary whose behaviour helped to discredit French royalty, see “The Count of Artois: Charles X of France.”

#charles x #count of artois #bourbon restoration #french royalty #french history

[elliottandstuff50]

Louis Philippe I vs Charles X (It's King vs King.) During the July Revolution.

This is a revolution between Kings. First one is Louis Philippe I, and the Second one i is Charles X. The fight between the Kings of France.

#kingdom of france #July Revolution #July monarchy #Bourbon restoration #Charles X #Louis Philippe I #Revolutions of 1830 #History #Historical #King #Kings

[knowledgevariabledarcy]

#bourbon street #martin bourboulon #bourbon lover #bourbon whiskey #bourbon restoration #Youtube

[elgallinero]

Apprendre le Francais

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#1844-1846 #Alexandre Dumas #Apprendre le Francais #Auguste Maquet #Bourbon Restoration #Chateau d’If #Edmond Dantes #Elba #France #Italy #Le Comte de Monte Cristo #Louise-Philippe of France #Marseille #Mediterranean #Napoleon

[joachimnapoleon]

A great article by a friend of mine on a Corsican officer who accompanied Murat on his ill-fated final enterprise.

#Joachim Murat #Corsica #Naples #Bourbon Restoration #1815

[vsirsa]

my beautiful wife rowland & brian hooper in 2006

#rowland s. howard #brian hooper #the birthday party #these immortal souls #crime & the city solution #beasts of bourbon #love love looooove #my lovely wife #my gifs #i tried (and failed) restoring the quality on this

[hayzeydayzey]

My sweet dandies Rich and Seb!

#original characters #ocs #regency #napoleonic era #bourbon restoration #historical ocs #art #traditional art #prismacolor #faber castell #moleskine #my moleskine

[tiny-librarian]

Her Royal Highness, Madame the Duchesse d’Angouleme.

#marie therese charlotte #madame royale #duchesse d'angouleme #french monarchy #bourbon restoration #the royal collection #long live the queue

[secretmellowblog]

I do love how Victor Hugo pauses Les Mis to go on a tangent about the Revolutionary Power of Cats(tm)

Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat.

Les Meowserables….

#les mis #les mis letters #lm 1.3.5 #I have so many things to say !! #about the echoes of war and the restoration in this chapter!!! #but I am swamped with school 😭 #but yeah it’s like? #all the soldiers all around and the worship of the bourbons #and then Fantine being a child of the directory while Tholomyes is kinda sorta compared to the bourbon monarchy