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Janet Fauble at home
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sorting Photos
I spent part of the evening sorting through photos, trying to figure out a way to get these on the internet so they can be shared with family and friends. Sometimes it is easiest to take a photo of a pic by mobile or digital camera when things work right. Will try to get new printer and scanner soon and learn how to operate it...all in good time. Sorry I am so late in learning all this stuff.
Royal Prince and Princesses
Through the TudorTalk discussion group, I learned of a new website featuring European Prince and Princesses,www.altesses.eu, and naturally had to look at all the portraits of Elizabeth I, but later found Louis XIII, and then Louis XIV. I placed a few of those found for Louis XIV on facebook as there is no direct link to blogger so that I can place them here. I suppose there could be a way to do it, but I am not that far along in my computer skills. I am still very basic and primitive for all the many years I have used this machine. I forget easily simple things as cut and paste already, mind you.
The pictures of Madame de Maintenon when she was only Francois d'Aubigne, a poor young girl in need of a friend, really impressed me. The artist loved her when she was a young girl in the vibrancy of her youth. The flowers that are painted beneath her portrait impressed me a lot. She was a beautiful girl and to imagine that she was wasting away as Paul Scarron's wife is not only sad for her but also for him. He could not really enjoy his marriage to her at all, and it is very easy for me to see why and how she caught the King's attention.
Portraits of her in her later years are not quite so flattering and probably do not do justice to her, for most comments about her are so positive and enchanting. Those comments do not show in the many portraits made of her.
There is a secret ceremony portrait that does not look true to me at all, but then I am certain that it came about many years after the marriage was finally acknowledged. I do not believe in this portrait much at all. It is too much a copy of his marriage to his young Spanish bride. Her portraits are quite beautiful in my opinion and I liked them a lot. She is a much overlooked and maligned young woman also.
I do have my own recollection of the marriage between the king and Francois d'Aubigne, then known as Madame de Maintenon. It did occur and it was a nighttime ceremony. She stood on his left hand side which is an important detail to know. The marriage could never be acknowledged openly in the court or in the land, but years later, France has seen fit to give honor to Madame de Maintenon. She did not suffer the same fate from the revolutionaries as did the other members of the Royal Family, so whether she knew it or not, she earned a different fate than did the other members of the family, including her own august husband.
The pictures of Madame de Maintenon when she was only Francois d'Aubigne, a poor young girl in need of a friend, really impressed me. The artist loved her when she was a young girl in the vibrancy of her youth. The flowers that are painted beneath her portrait impressed me a lot. She was a beautiful girl and to imagine that she was wasting away as Paul Scarron's wife is not only sad for her but also for him. He could not really enjoy his marriage to her at all, and it is very easy for me to see why and how she caught the King's attention.
Portraits of her in her later years are not quite so flattering and probably do not do justice to her, for most comments about her are so positive and enchanting. Those comments do not show in the many portraits made of her.
There is a secret ceremony portrait that does not look true to me at all, but then I am certain that it came about many years after the marriage was finally acknowledged. I do not believe in this portrait much at all. It is too much a copy of his marriage to his young Spanish bride. Her portraits are quite beautiful in my opinion and I liked them a lot. She is a much overlooked and maligned young woman also.
I do have my own recollection of the marriage between the king and Francois d'Aubigne, then known as Madame de Maintenon. It did occur and it was a nighttime ceremony. She stood on his left hand side which is an important detail to know. The marriage could never be acknowledged openly in the court or in the land, but years later, France has seen fit to give honor to Madame de Maintenon. She did not suffer the same fate from the revolutionaries as did the other members of the Royal Family, so whether she knew it or not, she earned a different fate than did the other members of the family, including her own august husband.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Girl Who Kicked A Hornet's Nest
I finally saw the movie made in Sweden based on Stieg Larsson's trilogy The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest. What a movie! I did not read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or see the movie but I saw the last two movies and read a portion of the second and the entire third book. It was due to Barnes and Noble and my Nook application on my cell phone that I became aware of these films. I had already discussed the uncanny problem of seeing resemblances to living people and I won't discuss that any more.
The movie reached me. I saw that on So You Think You Can Dance show that the two finalists in the dance competition wore mohawk hairstyles similar to that of the main heroine in the show, LizBeth Salander. I was playing with the words salable, salacious the other day. I actually know a man whose last name is Sala.
Lady Gaga's hairstyle also reminded me a lot of the hairstyle that Salander had to wear after her operation and the side of her face was shaved. There was a yorkshire terrier in Florida one time that had his ass shaved, and I thought of an old Doris Day movie where all three yorkshire terriers are used to point out which one is wearing the real diamond. That made me think of the movie as to which of these characters is like a real live person that you know. The police car sported a number on it that is direct match and that really got to me so I know that these Swedes do know exactly what they are doing.
Need I say more, especially since Yahoo has come up with something tonight that makes me know that I needed their advice. Thanks to Yahoo for that one!
That is all I will say for now...
The movie reached me. I saw that on So You Think You Can Dance show that the two finalists in the dance competition wore mohawk hairstyles similar to that of the main heroine in the show, LizBeth Salander. I was playing with the words salable, salacious the other day. I actually know a man whose last name is Sala.
Lady Gaga's hairstyle also reminded me a lot of the hairstyle that Salander had to wear after her operation and the side of her face was shaved. There was a yorkshire terrier in Florida one time that had his ass shaved, and I thought of an old Doris Day movie where all three yorkshire terriers are used to point out which one is wearing the real diamond. That made me think of the movie as to which of these characters is like a real live person that you know. The police car sported a number on it that is direct match and that really got to me so I know that these Swedes do know exactly what they are doing.
Need I say more, especially since Yahoo has come up with something tonight that makes me know that I needed their advice. Thanks to Yahoo for that one!
That is all I will say for now...
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