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Married 16May1770, the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the Royal Chapel of Versailles. She had been married by proxy to Louis at the Augustinian Church in Vienna on 19 April.

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2019-05-16

Plates from William Smellie's 'Theory and Practice of Midwifery' (1752). Smellie, a Lanarkshire-born 'man-midwife' was known for pioneering a scientific approach to midwifery and developing safer obstetrical forceps

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2019-05-05

Marie Antoinette and a Boar Hunt: Hunting was a popular sport in the 1700s, and there is at least one record of Marie Antoinette... https://t.co/xXLWelyzMa

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2019-04-30

Journée d’étude du GRHAM : « Le marché de l’art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle : Expertises, négociations et controverses », , 5 juin 2019. Cf. https://t.co/UmYkFW0QGn

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2019-04-29

Thanks to Anne Haworth for her lecture where we discovered the secret of immortality, peento peaches. Shame they only ripen every 3000 years!

Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality. Yū Hi.

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2019-04-17

For Excerpts from poetry written by the daughter of and Louis XVI while she was imprisoned during the French Revolution:
"I was your king's daughter
separated from all my family..." https://t.co/O5NBvsWFuB

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2019-04-08

"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.

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2019-04-02

Eccentric London dentist Martin Van Butchell rode his purple painted pony in Hyde Park on Sundays and displayed his embalmed wife in his surgery. Find out why at https://t.co/viU76fsKxo

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2019-03-01

A great curse and a great article title:
"Pox on Both Your Houses: The Battle of the Romeos"
by Leslie Ritchie (ECF 27.3-4 (2015)
https://t.co/WAbFljPz6b

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2019-02-28

Watercolor created in 1790 by George Moutard Woodward that is titled "Preperations for a New Comedy" or "A Green Room in Town."

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2019-02-21

Born 1717 David Garrick, actor & impresario, a key figure in reviving interest in the plays of

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2019-02-19

The ECF archive is stuffed with fascinating
A curated special issue takes the guess-work out of searching.
The virtual issue on Propaganda is a sure thing:
https://t.co/fgP7Jr2pOj

Today is Family Day in Ontario, so the ECF office is closed.

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2019-02-19

RT : On All Things we take a look at the Isherwoods, an brewing family from
https://t.co/mLJI9nYkea

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2019-02-17

“Thank you... I thought it might be too much...?”

Was there such a thing as ‘too much’ for the eighteenth century gentleman when it came to choosing an impressive outfit?

Find out at our next lecture Tue 19th Feb

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2019-02-13

While authors didn't describe a low mood as "the blues," they did write about melancholy:
At Seventeen: Adolescence in Sense and Sensibility
by Shawn Lisa Maurer
https://t.co/ABi6u4BUhQ
ECF 25.4 (2013)

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2019-02-11