#european aristocracy

[annachum]

Leroux! Raoul De Chagny Aesthetic

#leroux raoul #raoul aesthetic #yes raoul got light chestnut hair with golden tinges in the sun and golden eyes in the poto book #at least that is what i remembered #leroux raoul aesthetic #european aristocracy #warrior

[give-me-a-username-plz]

it’s actually a miracle that no one has even written a French Wars of Religion jegulus au fic.

hear me out, hear me out;

It’s the 1500’s. The French monarchy is desperately trying to keep themselves and the Catholic Church superior to the Protestant faith, specifically the Huguenots. King Henry II of France (Orion) dies unexpectedly, leaving the throne to an eleven year old Henry III (Regulus), after the death of his brother. Too young to take the throne, Catherine de Medici (Walburga) takes over the throne and commits a LOT of violent crimes. The other brother, the Duke of Aleçnon (Sirius) abandons the whole monarchy and joins a group of Protestant Rebels called The Malcontents (tell me that isn’t the closest thing to Marauders you have EVER HEARD). Part of this group is Henry of Navarre (James) a protestant aristocrat attempting to take the throne and promote religious freedom. They call him the Good King Henry (something that SCREAMS James Potter).

#ap european history made me want to write fanfiction #marauders headcanon #marauders #regulus black #james potter #sirius black #wolfstar #jegulus #jegulus au #french aristocracy #wars of religion #ap euro

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger (French, 1814-1893) Ce n'est pas moi, 1872

#Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger #Henri Guillaume Schlesinger #art #french art #french aristocracy #french artist #classical art #portrait of a girl #ce n'est pas moi #it wasn't me #1800s #1800s fashion #mediterranean #europe #european #europa

[raquel-lopez]

꧁ "This, Madame, is Versailles" ꧂

⚜️♕⚜️

Vídeo de ©Antoine

Música del vídeo, Las cuatro estaciones. Invierno.... Antonio Vivaldi

#chateaudeversailles #versalles #palace #chateau #france #marie antoinette #heritage #historic places #european #royal palace #18th century #siglo xviii #icu architecture #rococó #architectedinterieur #architecturephotography #french castle #louis xv of france #french aristocracy #opulence #french culture #classic style #elegant style #elegance #passion

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

The Prince of Wales and The Duke of Westminster closet relationship is via their shared ancestor Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

#ktd #british royal family #prince william #brf #throwback #duke of westminster #tsar Nicholas i #russian imperial family #european royalty #british aristocracy

[castilestateofmind]

"Today, the mere idea of aristocracy is incompatible with the dominant ideology. But every people needs an aristocracy. It's an integral part of human nature and can't be dispensed with. The question then is not 'For or against aristocracy?' but 'What kind of aristocracy?"

- Guillaume Fayé

#Guillaume faye #archeofuturism #why we fight #new right #aristocracy #evola #julius evola #european new right #alain de benoist #europe #european values #trsditionalism #conservative revolution #tradition #ferrer dalmau

[chicago-geniza]

Hey @horrid-little-pedant I can make you a Boy Scouts/international Scouting movement imperialism/colonialism/not-so-crypto-fascism syllabus if you’d like but for a first tantalizing taste here is:

Fig 1) Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and the Scouting movement, on the swastika symbol, from his 1917 sequel to the classic manual Scouting For Boys, entitled Young Knights of The Empire. Its companion book, for Girl Guides/Girl Scouts, authored by his sister Agnes, was called How Girls Can Help Build Up the Empire. The Baden-Powell family, prominent British military aristocrats, were instrumental in the British colonial expansion re: South Africa. Baden-Powell’s inspiration for the Boy Scouts was the Mafeking Cadet Corps, a group of child soldiers formed by Lord Edward Cecil shortly before the Siege of Mafeking that secured Robert’s place in annals of imperial military history. His niece Betty later became--I am choking and wheezing and coughing up a hairball getting this phrase out--Scoutmaster for the. Girl Guides of North Rhodesia. Do not even get me STARTED on, uh. The Peace Light of Bethlehem (tl;dr it’s a program inaugurated in Austria circa 1986 nominally to help ~handicapped children, but of course. In 2005. The International Commissioner of Austria symbolically passed the Peace Light to a delegation of Scouts and Guides from the Palestinian National Authority, comma, just after the Oslo Accords. And then in 2007 a delegation of Guides and Scouts from Austria, Germany, France, Jordan, Israel, and the PNA--by the way, all but Jordan and Israel are part of the Catholic international Scouting branch that generally, depending on region, ‘pledges allegiance’ to “[country], God, Church, and Christian Europe”--they symbolically lit the ~*~Peace Light together. In. Bethlehem. Scouting is the most fucked-up Bad Internationalism movement in the world.)

Fig 2) The Rodlo symbol was designed by a woman who was part of the Polish minority population in Germany, she went to a Sokol (also Scouting!!!) gymnasium, she got a scholarship to study with Wladyslaw Skyoczylas and other modernist naive folk-revival painters at the school of fine arts in Warsaw, she survived the war, she got into this bizarre movement of neo-pagan anti-clerical pan-Slavist ‘nationalism’ that confirms every single thing I said in my undergrad thesis, she wants to take these symbols back from Hitler and stress the uniqueness of the Polish-German border regions that are neither like, fashy Catholic nationalist Poland nor fashy-flavor Germany, unfortunately that’s not how history or visual semantics work. She says it’s ‘rod’ plus ‘godlo’ (pretend it’s a liquid l) but it’s rodnoverie, we know what you’re about, Joasia--or rather, if you have to give a paragraph-long disclaimer every time you present your lovingly-rendered symbol, you gotta just let it go once it reaches critical mass and recognize that that your defensive disclaimers come across as “my t-shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt.” Anyway. This Harcerstwo troupe named after...the Harcerstwo movement that became a WWII paramilitary and subsequently Catholic anticommunist movement adopted it as their symbol. They’re from a small town in the Katowice region and they are. Well. If you don’t want everyone to think you’re fascists then maybe don’t be a paramilitary organization with a Hitler Youth lite flag (if you put the Rodlo on the Polish flag...it’s...it scans as the swastika on the...they know! They’re not oblivious, they do 500 WWII memorial actions per year!). And don’t have your scouts swear fealty in military fatigues while doing the seig heil to the Slavic Hitlerjugend flag in the woods. Ya dig. Their website is like “why are our enrollments declining :(” 

idk man maybe your town’s teens want to smoke weed under the bridge and not be put through boot camp after school 

#NISHT REBAGELN #i have so much autism about scouting and it is extremely embarrassing but if you have questions about it. i have Answers #also did you know the UU church got in a huge fight with boy scouts of america #and boy scouts of america got in a huge fight with baden-powell about being allowed to say god #i do not need to explain the context of the PNA & the oslo accords for tumblr user horrid-little-pedant but can if other people are not awar #*aware. Scouting: Bad Internationalism #OH. wanna hear about the officially recognized Boy Scouts Displaced Persons DIvision after WWII dissolved c. 1950 #or Mury: Harcerki Troupe of Ravensbruck #did you know krupskaya once used komsomol and 'boyskautizm' as synonyms and that #ok i got distracted but again. rudyard kipling. he just tweeted it out. there are also 800000 examples in this book about Helping Police #and how scouts are like bees: serve their Queen & DISPOSE OF THE UNEMPLOYED #also baden-powell's sister agnes was great friends with marconi you know the long-distance radio transmission inventor who #joined the italian fascist party in 1923 like years before mussolini came to power and #used his authority as director of the science institute to mark all jewish applicants' papers with an E (italian word for jew starts with E) #& none were admitted during his tenure. before this became state policy & before this pressure was even. you know. subtly dispersed by #mussolini. just of his own initiative! #he has so many quotes praising fascism i couldn't fit them in one document #the british monarchy & aristocracy will see continental european fascism and especially german & go 'Tell Me More...' #the polish nobility AND endecja will see various permutations of fascism & say 'tell me more...' for different reasons #the polish intelligentsia will see ITALIAN fascism & say 'tell me more [eyes emoji] while condemning german fascism bc one has #better aesthetics #meanwhile stefania zahorska & bruno schulz are having stress-induced heart disease #pilsudski wants to be england so bad it makes him look stupid. & dmowski hates england & germany on paper but also #wants to be them so bad it makes them look stupid if he can do it with the slavophile side of the slavophile vs. westernizer debate #comma american industry and isolationism comma good old WWI 'ethnographic borders' comma #and solve The Jewish Question (threat)

[birt-art]

I find it so funny that Ranni's brothers are Rykard and Radahn, they're SO different to her and it makes me laugh thinking about them growing up together like

Ranni being seriously and serenely tutored by her mother in magic and the moon, the responsibility of the household's future on her young shoulders, while outside Rykard and Radahn are climbing trees and hitting each other on the head and making friends with worms and snakes and arguing over who's stronger by means of arm wrestle

#rykard really wants them all to play TOGETHAAA #honestly thinking too hard about the childhoods and relationships between all of marika's kids is hilarious to me #the fact that these huge battles happened between siblings and half siblings is all very accurate to European aristocracy #elden ring posting #personal post

[more-than-a-princess]

When you're not Ju.nko En.oshima but still drag your writing partner's muse into despair-

I'll get to more of my askbox tomorrow. I'm just amused that what's supposed to be a sweet and fun holiday is now ruined.

#more-than-a-princess dashcomm #more-than-a-princess crack #(it was all destroyed by an overly confident straight man whose family wants in with the European aristocracy-)

[cruelsister-moved2]

it could be worse I could be a musicologist :) worst field ever btw needs to just stop existing die musicology

#I hate when ppl hate on ethnomusicology bc the name sounds sus #like babe ur pointing at the wrong guy I promise #the musicologist response to like awakenings abt class and race and gender etc is actually fascinating #bc OK u can scrape the barrel for like 2 nonwhite composers and 4 women #but ur entire field is literally defined on the 19tu century european aristocracys taste like #w history or smth u can be like oh what about women in history #but it's like if the history of rich white guys was it's own specific field with its own specific methodology which is then used to evaluat #all other history #you cant like. make that woke and inclusive you just have to admit that its your specific specialism in the study of music and not its own #definitive thing #literally wild that music departments are centred on about 200 years of upper class white male music making #and the study of ALL OTHER MUSIC that's ever existed is like. a niche specialism that makes up maybe 10% of the department #i had to do a bunch of like Bach style 4 part harmony stuff in first year and it was soo... #it's like interesting to study as like a specific tradition and I've always said it's basically like sudoku dhdif it's very mathematic #but its literally a completely arbitrary like aesthetic judgement which is entirely defined by its tradition #and by having weird old white guys with access to the rules established by the previous generation of weird old white guys #and lots of time to sit around for hours completing these little musical puzzles #it's not really like An Innate Truth of Music #and obv as a folk musician I'm like i see the worth in this and I also find it very prohibitive of what i see as the various functional #purposes of music. and im much more interested by like people developing fiddle styles that allowed them to play for longer at a ceilidh #or ballads being constructed in a way that enables someone who cant read to remember 100+ of them #etc. #if u actually recognise western art music as arbitrary it then opens it up for study but just being like this is Good Music like well..why? #and they have reasons obviously but it's like according to the rules established by western art music so it's like yeah of course WAM is #good at being WAM and sea shanties are very bad at it #but like that's both obvious and meaningless so.....

[aristo-men]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw_9ph6u14O/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

#european royalty #aristocracy #aristocraticdudes

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Karl von Blaas (Austrian, 1815-1894) Portrait of Countess Gabriella Andrássyove, born Pálffy, 1865 Vihorlatské múzeum v Humennom

#carl von blaas #karl von blaas #austrian #austrian art #1800s #countess #noble #nobility #aristocrat #aristocracy #austria #classic art #female portrait #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #female #portrait #european #oil painting #fine arts #brunette #woman #lady with a fan #dark brown hair #tiara #european fashion #women in art

[womenusingwords]

A Lady to Treasure

The details… Title: A Lady to Treasure Author: Marianne Ratcliffe Publisher: Bellows Press Publication date: October 15, 2023 ISBN: 978739710163 Available formats: paperback Length: 300 pages Genre: Regency romance Themes: marriage, duty, family, friendship, falling in love, business, aristocracy, European history, world history, women loving women, forbidden love Tropes: friends to…

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#aristocracy #business #duty #European history #family #forbidden love #friends-to-lovers #friendship #historical fiction #Lesbian Romance #LGBTQ+ #love #marriage #Regency romance #romance #women loving women

[immaculatasknight]

Brotherhood of death

#European Commission #Nazi #history #Fourth Reich #Germany #aristocracy #oligarchy #Ukraine #Ursula Van Der Leyden #imperialism

[endless-ineffabilities]

le marquis et le moineau

Marquis de Gramont x f!reader

themes: angst, twisted business associates(?) to lovers, dubious morals, the Marquis has his eyes set on you and only you (but you don't know that ofc)

a/n: this bloody Frenchman has been plaguing my thoughts (thanks to a very sinister portrayal by one Bill Skarsgård). Mind you, I still haven't even seen the film John Wick 4, but I'm a fan of the series, and the morsels I've seen of the Marquis have been more than enough to give rise to a new lil fixation.

word count: 932 ▪︎ more of moineau ▪︎ other works

It started as a little game.

Just some passing fancy between yourself and the Marquis.

Or at least, that was what it was supposed to remain. Only that. A game.

But you should have known better. You should have known that any game played with Marquis Vincent de Gramont may eventually turn deadly.

Your high-risk job at the Continental usually also reaped the highest of rewards.

Tip off the right person and receive a gold coin. Deliver a message, without any bumps or bruises to all parties involved, and your reputation would be given a much-needed boost or two.

This business was danger wrapped in deceit wrapped in glamour. And you knew how to deal the right cards.

Although it seems, things are not as easy when it comes to the Marquis.

Vincent was every bit a menace as his reputation decreed. The Marquis tasked with restoring the authority of the High Table, he was nothing short of cunning and ambitious, prepared to take down any and all those who posed a threat to his objectives.

Dangerous. Deceptive. Glamourous as well, mind you. He was perfectly suited to this world.

He was also brazen, pretentious, snobbish.

And beautiful.

He knew just how to tug at your strings and make you bend. Or at least, he always tried to.

Like he was doing then, in one of the bigger rooms in his palacial estate, wherein only the two of you stood with only a few feet in between.

"What did we agree upon, mon moineau?" His silky accented voice implored.

My sparrow, he called you. The reason for which remained undisclosed to you, not for a lack of trying to wrench it out of him.

Why couldn't he call you something sweeter? Of the more classic French romantic sobriquets?

Chérie, perhaps. Mon amour. Mon coeur.

But no. You were stuck with measly ol' "my sparrow".

Of course, not that it mattered. Perhaps the Marquis reserved his sweeter words for those he actually cared for. At the very least, well-regarded enough to be associated with. Those impossibly beautiful and refined members of European aristocracy that he was so often rumoured to be wining and dining.

Unlike you. Renegade, foul-mouthed vagabond.

You stared up at his pacing figure. "I am fully aware of what we agreed upon, Vincent. What I have done does not breach that. I am perfectly capable - "

His head snapped to you menacingly. "You could have been killed, moineau."

You shrugged. "Consequences. I did not enter this damned line of work without considering the risks. As it goes, getting killed would not exactly be an uncommon occurence."

"Don't jest." He shut his eyes, and pinched the bridge of his nose, in obvious annoyance.

You took a step forward, trying to find his gaze. "And if I were to... pass... so what? Everything would simply go on. The truth is that I'm already a ghost. Doing what I do in our world makes me some kind of spectre. I am already not there."

You knew this. You repeated this to yourself when you woke, and before you went to sleep. It was the only truth you could hold on to.

Until him. Until some buried, twisted part of you began hoping that he would care.

But hope is a dangerous thing.

You continued, as he kept looking away. "You would go on. Perhaps even find a new sparrow to play with."

You felt it. As your words hung in the air, his entire mood shifted. He straightened, and with both hands burrowed in the pockets of his impeccably tailored trousers, his eyes land on you.

He slowly took a step forward, and then another, until his figure loomed over you.

In all your shared moments, you learned to discern the quick switches in his temper and his expression. But not enough, not completely.

The look he was giving you then was impossible to read.

"You think..." His left hand drifted to the hem of your blazer, toying with it. "... that I..." His index finger then drifted upward over your silk shirt, stopping in between your collarbones. His tongue briefly darted out to wet his lips, catching your eye. "... would simply replace you?"

You finally felt his touch on your face, his fingers delicately caressing your jawline.

He made a fleeting tsk tsk sound with his tongue, as if in disapproval.

"I believe you underestimate just how much you matter to me, mon moineau."

You did your best to remain unfazed. This was the game, wasn't it? Whatever you might think it can become, what you hope it can unravel into - set it aside as delusion.

Don't fall.

It's just a game to play.

Don't fall.

You took a deep breath, then smiled sweetly. Mockingly. "What makes you think I would even pay any mind to how much I matter to you? That line of thinking doesn't work for people like us, Marquis."

"People like us," he repeated, amusement furrowing his brow. "Non, mon moineau. There are no other people like us."

He leaned in, eyes not leaving yours, all but eliminating the distance between your faces. You could feel his breath on your skin, could count the faint spotting of freckles around his nose.

You wished to ask him what he wanted, but held back.

No. There was something better to say.

"What are you waiting for?" You managed to voice the words despite your very heart lodged in your throat.

He smiled, proud of his precious sparrow.

"Mon coeur... I've been waiting for you my entire life."

Ahhh! 🖤 Everybody say thank you Bill Skarsgård and the on-set stylist for the visual treat that is the Marquis.

I'm not even sure if this will find the right crowd - seeing as my lovely followers are of the HotD persuasion. But oh well, I had to get it out of my system.

Could be more of this... idk 🤷‍♀️ Rest assured I haven't forgetten about all my series works, even the ones I haven't started but said I would do...

#marquis de gramont #marquis vincent de gramont #vincent de gramont #john wick #marquis de gramont x reader #marquis de gramont imagine #bill skargard #bill skarsgard x reader #marquis vincent de gramont x reader #bill skarsgard imagine #john wick 4 #marquis vincent de gramont imagine #bill skarsgård #bill skarsgård x reader #vincent de gramont x reader

[castilestateofmind]

"A sign which almost always accompanies the decadence of an aristocracy is the invasion of humanitarian sentiments and delicate ‘sob-stories’ that render it incapable of defending its position. We must not confuse violence and force. Violence usually accompanies weakness. We can observe individuals and classes, who, having lost the force to maintain themselves in power, become more and more odious by resorting to indiscriminate violence. A strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary — and then nothing stops him. Trajan was strong but not violent; Caligula was violent but not strong".

Wilfredo Pareto

#wilfredo pareto #pareto #aristocracy #decay #society #violence #force #conservatove revolution #liberalism #anti-liberalism #economy #European New Right #guillaume Faye #europe #european civilization #decline of the west #West