Aurora von Goeth 🏳️‍🌈さんのイラストまとめ

29 September 1703, birth of François Boucher, who was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Rococo style and one of the most celebrated painters and decorative artist of the 18th century. #otd

17 September 1665, Charles II of Spain, aka the Bewitched, becomes King of Spain at the age of three upon the death if his father, Philip IV. #otd

8 September 1621, birth of Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé aka le Grand Condé, who was one of Louis XIV's most pre-eminent generals. #otd

6 August 1644, birth of Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc aka Louise de La Vallière, who was a long-time mistress of Louis XIV, then withdrew to a convent and became a nun to repent her sins. #otd

19 April 1770, the future Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are married by proxy at the Augustinerkirche in Vienna. #otd

15 February 1710, Louis XV is born at Versailles as third son of Louis XIV's grandson Louis de France, Duc de Bourgogne, and Monsieur's granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie. #otd

2 February 1650, birth of pretty and witty Nell Gwyn, who was a long-time mistress of Charles II. #otd

30 January 1670, the Chevalier de Lorraine is arrested in presence of Monsieur. No reason for the arrest is given and the whole thing so sudden, the servants thought the King wanted to arrest Monsieur as they saw the armed guards approach. #otd

As Louis XIV was told by his brother Philippe how he had in mind to marry their cousin Henriette d'Angleterre, he made fun of him by saying "Mon frère, vous allez épouser tous les os des Saints Innocents!" because Henriette was rather very skinny and frail.

23 January 1753, death of Anne-Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Duchesse du Maine, who was a daughter of Henri-Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and married Louis XIV's legitimised son Louis-Auguste. She could not stand her husband and is said to have had plenty affairs. #otd