Dr Josephine Wilkinsonさんのイラストまとめ

D'Artagnan has an altercation with Milédy de Winter - ouch, look out !

💣19 September 1696. The demolition of the donjon and fortifications of Pignerol begins in accordance with the terms of the treaty agreed between France and the Savoie. The town of Pignerol was also returned to the duc de Savoie after being in French hands for seventy years.

@17thCenturyLady @shearwood_mark @HistoricEchoes @cheapsellotape @MarshsLibrary @johnalan57 @MuseumCromwell @jdmccafferty @RestorationTwt @RestorationHat @royalhistorian 'Where the devil can't go himself, he sends an old woman.' Liselotte.

🖋Any princess who is doomed to become queen of Spain is much to be pitied. I cannot forgive the Spanish for poisoning their queens. They poisoned our queen because she had no children and now this one because she was going to have one.

Liselotte on the deaths of Spanish queens.

⛓The man in the Iron Mask was kept in four prisons in all, two of which still exist today: Exilles in Piedmont and Sainte-Marguerite off the coast of Cannes. Only Sainte-Marguerite remains much as he would have remembered it.🪑

9 June 1660. Louis XIV marries the Spanish Infanta, Maria Teresa. The marriage provides the seal to the Treaty of the Pyrenees, ending the Franco-Spanish was. The queen will be known by her French name, Marie-Thérèse, but Louis, at first infatuated by her, soon tires of her.

@17thCenturyLady @theTavernKnight @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @LloydLlewJ I offer Marie de Rohan, duchesse de Chevreuse.

⚜️Profession: lady-in-waiting; political activist, flea in Richelieu's ear
⚜️Hobbies: intrigue; being in exile
⚜️Anything else ? One of the mistresses of Amaris. She would later let him into the secret of the Man in the Iron Mask.

17 August 1661. Nicolas Foucquet, Louis XIV's surintendant des finances, hosts a magnificent party at his château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Contrary to popular belief, this did not prompt Foucquet's downfall, which had been planned several months earlier. For more, see my Facebook page

23 April 1661: Louis takes the court to Fontainebleau for the summer season One of his favourite palaces, he enjoys hunting and having parties in the forest. He is still enamoured with Henriette, but it won't be long before the court notices that he has a new mistress...🌸

Charles Le Brun was born today in 1619. One of the finest artists of his day, Le Brun produced many famous portraits, but he also decorated châteaux, such as the magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.