FrenchRevolution

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.) | Sena Jeter Naslund

She is one of women with whom I have long been intrigued. I have even been to Versailles. She led a short, ultimately tragic, yet interesting life. I have not read this novel but have read historical accounts. Fits the prompt of Day 1: #Queen
#CharacterCharm

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

TheBookHippie She fascinates me. 3d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @m @TheBookHippie Same hereI I would love some others that fascinate you. It would be cool if we share some others. 3d

Eggs Perfect 🤩 🤗 3d

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TheBookHippie @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Catherine the Great, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Ida Wells, Catherine of Siena, St Theresa, Lilith, Mary Magdalen, Katherine Hepburn, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, Simone De Beauvoir, Ava Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Irena Sendler, Miep Gies, Queen Elizabeth…. 🙃 3d

marleed @TheBookHippie I love your list. I‘d add Babe Paley and Jackie O. I‘ve long been fascinated by Babe Paley and her world and am intrigued by the attn she‘s received of late. My mother died when I was still in diapers - Babe Paley would have been the woman of her day - but handled so differently than the money-making influencers of today. I wonder what my mother‘s take on Babe was. 3d

TheBookHippie @marleed oh Babe Paley -yes!!! I recently watched a YouTube on her I‘ll try to find it back! 3d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @TheBookHippie We definitely share Eleanor Roosevelt 2d

TheBookHippie @DrSabrinaMoldenReads I think I learn some new amazing fact every year. What an incredible woman. 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @TheBookHippie I gather you‘ve read

Eleanor and Franklin

TheBookHippie @DrSabrinaMoldenReads yes! 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @TheBookHippie I admire her ability to cope with him. Another person who fascinates me is Sally Hemings. Do you know who that is?

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

TheBookHippie @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Oh yes. I wish we had her story written down from her. 2d

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ImperfectCJ

Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette | Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

We do not care that we bought the shorts we're wearing at a thrift store during Clinton's second term. Some styles are timeless.

We also do not care that we're posting this on Thursday. Time is a construct, and we can't be expected to keep up with what day it is.

#WDNCW @dabbe

kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻 6d

Amiable Amen! 6d

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 6d

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GingerAntics 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 all of this, yes girl yes 6d

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼...wait, it's already Thursday...😂👌🏼💝. (edited) 6d

dabbe #wdnc that we just read thison Friday. It‘s still hilarious! 🤩😍🤩 (edited) 5d

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JenlovesJT47

Beyond the Lavender Fields | Arlem Hawks

Here‘s another pic from my sister from Toulouse. Lavender is my absolute favorite scent and I‘d love nothing more than to just lay down in a lavender field.

Fields of lavender
sway lazily in the breeze,
perfuming the air. 💜

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #Toulouse

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 @ImperfectCJ @The_Book_Ninja 2w

JenlovesJT47 @tpixie here‘s one! Working on some more to post later this weekend. 💜 2w

TheBookHippie Oooooo the smell is so soothing. 2w

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AnnCrystal Bee🐝autiful 👏🏼🐝😍💖🤩🐝💝. (edited) 2w

CBee Lavender is one of my fave smells 💜 2w

tpixie 🪻🪻🪻 2w

tpixie @JenlovesJT47 so beautiful! 2w

dabbe Beautiful pic and words. I just visited a lavender farm in Pine, AZ with my sisters. The place smelled DIVINE and looked just like your pic. Purple lavender everywhere. 💜💜💜 2w

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe I‘m sure it smelled quite heavenly! 💜 I use lavender pillow spray with melatonin every night before bed, it‘s so relaxing 😎 2w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 Fabulous idea! I have a stress lotion from Aveda and oil that I put on my temples at bed. It really does help you sleep! 💜 2w

lil1inblue So peaceful! 🥰 7d

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suvata

The School of Mirrors: A Novel | Eva Stachniak

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4 Stars • The School of Mirrors by Eva Stachniak follows Véronique, a young girl trained as a courtesan for Louis XV‘s court, facing exploitation and heartbreak after giving up her daughter, Marie-Louise. Years later, Marie-Louise, a midwife in revolutionary Paris, uncovers her mom‘s past. It‘s a lush, gritty historical drama about survival, secrets, and mother-daughter bonds.

#TheSchoolOfMirrors #EvaStachniak #Bookish #FrenchRevolution

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Eggs

A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel | Hilary Mantel

This novel follows the lives of three prominent figures during the French Revolution: Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre.

#BastilleDay (Fete Nationale de France)🇫🇷

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 3w

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks TY! 3w

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Dilara

A People's History of the French Revolution | Eric Hazan

Today is the 233rd anniversary of the Baiser Lamourette (Lamourette Kissing), where priest and representative Lamourette enjoined his colleagues to make peace with each other after some stormy debates in Parliament. Hence the hugs and kisses portrayed in this ink drawing kept in the Louvre museum. I cannot picture the same thing happening today 😁
#readingispolitical

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xicanti

Scaramouche | Rafael Sabatini

Read some more of SCARAMOUCHE with Wesley nearby. It‘s currently my secondary book, but I think it‘ll graduate to primary when I‘ve got a little gap. It‘s fun so far. I do wish my free copy had an interesting cover, though.

Ruthiella Now I have Bohemian Rhapsody in head “Scaramouche. Scaramouche, will you do the fandango…”🎼🎶🎵 (edited) 1mo

xicanti @Ruthiella this is my life right now. 1mo

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Purpleness

Where the Light Falls | Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki

#firstlinefridays

TheBookHippie Happy Litsyversary!! 2mo

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Dilara

Atlas de la r�volution fran�aise: circulation des hommes et des id�es, 1770-1804 | Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Silvia Marzagalli

Map of revolutions, mutinies and uprisings across the Americas, the Near-East and Europe at the end of the 18th century, beginning of the 19th. I wish it was better taught at school.

Bookwomble It seems European colonial and revolutionary history is poorly taught in the West. Same issue in the UK when I was at school. 6mo

Dilara @Bookwomble Yes! I went to school in France in the 80s/90s. The 1789 French Revolution in mainland France was taught in reasonable detail, but subsequent revolutions, & anything happening in overseas territories or in other countries were glossed over or ignored, except for The Magna Carta, The Glorious Revolution & the American Revolutionary War as part of our citizenship class, & the 1917 Russian Rev as part of the WWI topic in history class. 6mo

Dilara Curious about the curriculum in other countries, if anyone would like to tell us about it 😁 6mo

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Bookwomble There were two streams of history taught in English high schools in the '70s: one was social and economic history, which I didn't do but which seemed to focus on the industrial revolution without really mentioning colonialism. I did world history, which included history of medicine, the American West, which did touch on the Native American genocide, but not in detail, and something about Chiang Kai-shek about which I recall only his name. 6mo

Bookwomble Nothing that challenged the establishment of the Grand Idea of the British Empire, long defunct as it already was. 6mo

Dilara @Bookwomble And we'd think things would have moved on since the 70s, but imperialism and colonialism are still taboo subjects in some quarters. 6mo

kspenmoll Love maps! 6mo

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Dilara

Atlas de la r�volution fran�aise: circulation des hommes et des id�es, 1770-1804 | Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Silvia Marzagalli

This map showing the 18th-century contraband route into France used for banned books doesn't feel as incredible today as it did last year. Force to US readers. Apparently, even romance books are in P 2025's crosshairs?!

Dilara To explain the map: “livre“ means “book“, but is also the name of the pre-French Revolution currency. So, a book cost 1.3 livre tournois (Tours pound) straight out of the Swiss printer's, went through various places in the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium), then ended up at a wholesaler in Caen (Normandy, France), where it was sold for 5 pounds to itinerant booksellers, who then sold it clandestinely for 7 to 9 pounds to the final customer 😱 6mo

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