tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post8029491008340249549..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Visiting the Ruins of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles, 1803Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-43514150471257704292011-12-14T06:04:47.404-05:002011-12-14T06:04:47.404-05:00I was intrigued by how romanticized this descripti...I was intrigued by how romanticized this description was - esp. when it was such a short time after Revolution, and from an Englishman at that. <br /><br />Chris, thanks for the link to the ebook link - pretty vivid ghost-sighting (or imagination!)Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997375216314200469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-21376935137978341392011-12-13T22:09:40.534-05:002011-12-13T22:09:40.534-05:00Now I must bend my imagination to such tasks as wi...Now I must bend my imagination to such tasks as will allow me to use the word "embowered." Anybody can use and overuse "empowered," but a real lawyer-poet-traveler will find a way to work "embowered" into her prose. Great post! Keep 'em coming!Grace Burroweshttp://graceburrowes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-79218193238415158682011-12-13T21:41:59.403-05:002011-12-13T21:41:59.403-05:00I count myself very lucky to have been able to vis...I count myself very lucky to have been able to visit the Petit Trianon with a group of students. It was truly a lovely little place -- I can't blame the queen for wanting to spend so much time there.looloolooweezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285571872065043306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-55921069996121658122011-12-13T21:18:59.182-05:002011-12-13T21:18:59.182-05:00Love it! Most Grand Tourists were young men, fresh...Love it! Most Grand Tourists were young men, fresh out of school and free to waste a few years on daddy's income. If Sir John Carr was a lawyer-poet-travel-writer and more mature gent, no wonder his insights and writings were more sophisticated. Teenage boys would have been going after other insights.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-43102736545706494422011-12-13T11:58:25.764-05:002011-12-13T11:58:25.764-05:00I’ve read (ok, skimmed, LOL!) several of his trave...I’ve read (ok, skimmed, LOL!) several of his travel journals. Google Books also has them posted for free. Great for details and insight into how my characters might have viewed the world.Isobel Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03153722955365985930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-89241103876637761822011-12-13T09:56:13.946-05:002011-12-13T09:56:13.946-05:00Love that last quote about the fair friend Pity. ...Love that last quote about the fair friend Pity. Thanks for posting this.Angelynhttp://www.angelynschmid.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-91183284795178629682011-12-13T07:15:21.140-05:002011-12-13T07:15:21.140-05:00The Petit Trianon has fascinated me since I saw ph...The Petit Trianon has fascinated me since I saw photos of it and the Petit Hameau brought back by my grandfather from the First World War. Although the incident has been largely debunked, two English ladies who visited the Trianon in 1901 believed they went back in time and saw the Petit Trianon as it was in Marie Antoinette's time, complete with gardeners and courtiers in 18th century garb and the Queen herself. Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain wrote about it in a book called "An Adventure", published in 1911. It is full of a romanticized vision of the tragic Queen, the gardens, and the buildings (as seen through the haze of unaccustomed wine at luncheon, as one critic unkindly put it.) It's a shortish book--about 135 pp and it's online here:<br />http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B31417310/index.htmlChris Woodyardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-75378639387633385212011-12-13T06:48:49.497-05:002011-12-13T06:48:49.497-05:00Marie Antoinette's herd of Ramboillet Merino s...Marie Antoinette's herd of Ramboillet Merino sheep helped re-establish the merino as we know it today though the pure Ramboillet does have differences to the Merino.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121102757759349165noreply@blogger.com