Christine of France (10 February 1606 – 27 December 1663) was the sister of Louis XIII and Duchess of Savoy by marriage. Upon the death of her husband Victor Amadeus I in 1637, she acted as regent of Savoy between 1637 and 1648.
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Paintings of Napoleon’s son, Alexandre Walewski, when he was a young man
The last time Alexandre saw Napoleon was during the Hundred Days in 1815 before Napoleon departed for his final exile on the island of St. Helena. Two years later, his mother died unexpectedly. He was 7 years old. He described his mother as “one of the most remarkable women that ever existed.” In his Memoirs, he described his childhood after her death:
“In almost every conversation my uncle Laczynski paid homage to the memory of my mother—his sister. As a result, from a very early age, we two boys [Alexandre’s half-brother] learned to love and admire her, realizing the enormity of our loss. . . . Uncle Theodore told us much about the Napoleonic Wars and always expressed his unbounded admiration for the Emperor. . . . It is needless to say that we listened to him spellbound. . . . My uncle’s greatest wish was to take us on a visit to St Helena, but he thought we had better wait until we were older.”
Source: Marie Walewska, Napoleon’s Great Love, by Christine Sutherland
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Elle Macpherson & Marie Christine Debourse by Gilles Bensimon
- Elle France, July 1984
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sophie grimaldi, jean-claude brialy, romy schneider, alain delon
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I don’t think there’s enough jokes about Raoul being rich and having no real concept of money.
Raoul: It’s just one apple Christine, how much could it cost, ten francs?
Christine:…You…you’ve never been to the markets have you Raoul?
Raoul: No, mother said the markets had rats.
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Mina: "Jonathan my dear... Why are you listed as 'Hyacinthus' on this french opera poster that Lucy sent me? What is a treble?"
Jonathan having flashbacks about song rehersals from hell: "... I needed the money."
(They are not fighting Mina is teasing Jonathan because he looks very pretty™ on that poster)
Now and then he gets postcards from Christine and Raoul, along with a few ominous letters from his worrisomely adamant 'music teacher.' It's all very nice
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Films Watched in 2023:
90. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Dir. Jacques Tourneur
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Tour de France femmes - Winner of the team ranking
SD Worx 🇳🇱
Lotte Kopecky, Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser, Elena Cecchini, Mischa Bredewold, Christine Majerus, Lorena Wiebes
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INTO THE WOODS 2014
You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.
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Portrait of Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and niece of Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean-Baptiste Wicar, 1815
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