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Current mood: Repeatedly refreshing Etsy to see if the excessive amount of enamel pins I have favorited are going on sale this weekend.
Will this year's Coutau-Begarie auction be the time this gorgeous, unusual miniature of Marie Antoinette depicted as the goddess Diana sells? (I think this is its 3rd auction round?) https://t.co/c92t4uPJ8V
A vintage illustration of Marie Antoinette and her son, Louis Charles by Jack Abeille, 1899. From my collection.
Three More Novels Inspired by Real 18th-century Women: https://t.co/ONkN4pu7kn
Image: One of the earliest depictions of the “Marie Antoinette faux shepherdess” myth, from an 1844 magazine. This myth developed decades after her death, and there is no contemporary evidence that she (or anyone at the hamlet) engaged in an aristocratic parody of peasant life.
One of the earliest images depicting Marie Antoinette engaging in pretend farm work, from an 1844 magazine. The myth of Marie Antoinette dressing as a shepherdess and churning butter, milking perfumed cows, etc, is an invention of the 19th century and not based in reality.
“Marie Antoinette with the Dauphine,” by Otto Hierl-Deronco; 1883. https://t.co/VCv1P41qLh
It would be fresh air if instead of incorrectly associating 'Let them eat cake' with Marie Antoinette, people used the whimsical 1823 attribution Balzac gave us: "If there is not a grain of wheat to make bread, a pretty little fairy will say: "Why don't they eat brioche!"
On November 3rd, 1780, just a day after Marie Antoinette's birthday and a few weeks before her own death, Maria Theresa wrote to her daughter: "Yesterday I spent the time more in France than Austria, and I remembered all the happy times in the past, which is indeed gone."