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"You, fish of the river and sea, listen to the Word of God because the heretics do not wish to hear it."

The saint of lost things had just about lost his patience with these people.

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One his famous stories highlighting his influential ways of preaching, St. Anthony of Padua once got frustrated with the people of a town refusing to listen to him, that he instead went to shore and preached to the sea creatures to show their ignorance.

Happy Feast day to St. Anthony of Padua!

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Jayce's Journal - A Hidden Entry

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Image description: Digital art of The Name of the Rose. Clinging to the left side of the image is a curvilinear tree-like form with William and Adso at its trunk, panicking at what they see. The branches curl up and around, tapering into a maze of thorns and down to where a small fruit has been plucked off the lowest branch, falling into a bright orange, green, and purple blaze of colors and reaching hands. End ID.

the sleep of reason

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« Le Bal des Ardents »

Finished a seven pages summary of one of my favorite historic moment in French history «  Le Bal des Ardents » ! It is set the 28 January 1389 .

Now some facts I couldn’t put in it !

Charles VI killed four men in a frenzy because he thought they were British soldier send to kill him ! They were in facts, only his close guard. The episode started after a man talked to him in the forest it all took place. He took 8 months to recover from this.

Strangely enough, even though « le Bal des Ardents » was a hugely traumatizing event, it is not the one that granted him his nickname « Le Fol » (the crazy ). It’s only 7 months after his mental health declined again without signs of improvements.

Infos kind of vary there but the event took place in the Hotel Saint-Pol OR the destructed and then reconstructed Hotel de la Reine Blanche.

Louis d’Orléans was 17 when it happened. People did think he did this to kill Charles VI and took the thrones. After the event he build the chapel « Le Couvent des Célestins » to expiate his crimes.

English is not my first languages also , sorry about the mistakes !!

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Thanks @hilda-dewitt for this great piece of work depicting Louis I of Anjou and Marie of Blois, great-grandparents of Margaret of Anjou. Louis I of Anjou was the founder of the Angevin cadet branch of the House of Valois, and Marie of Blois was the first of a series of powerful women in the House of Valois-Anjou.

I really found their story to be full of fun and drama. After King John II of France was taken prisoner in the Battle of Poitiers, Louis broke the Aragonese marriage contract arranged by his father to marry Marie, the daughter of one major claimant to the ducal throne of Brittany, neighboring his appanage of Anjou. His desire to meet his wife pushed him to end his hostage career in England prematurely on his own, and more or less led to the decision of John II to return to captivity, lol. While Marie's father fell in battle six months after John the Good's death in London, the couple remained close and intimate throughout their lives. Louis served as a leading military commander in his elder brother Charles V's reconquest of southwestern France during the second phase of the Hundred Years' War. He was also a loyal friend and protector of Bertrand du Guesclin, who fought for Marie's father before entering service for the Valois. However, due to his role in the 1378 tax revolts and his overambitious claim to the throne of Naples, Louis remained a controversial figure in France, and his past accomplishments were little appreciated. After Louis's death in the unsuccessful march to Naples, Marie continued their quest for the Neapolitan crown, and, after a tough fight against opposing claimants, secured for their seven-year-old son Louis II the County of Provence, which was in a personal union with the Kingdom of Naples. She acted as regent for Louis II during his minority, and arranged the marriage between him and Yolande of Aragon.

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The Accursed Kings in 1314

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Thank @sekihamsterdiestwice​ for creating this fantastic piece of work!

This depicts Charles II of Navarre/Charles the Bad/Charles le Mauvais on the left, and Charles V of France/Charles the Wise/Charles V le Sage on the right. I was inspired by Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings series (Book 7: The King Without a Kingdom) and Jonathan Sumption’s Hundred Years War series (Volume 2: Trial by Fire).

Maurice Druon, “The King Without a Kingdom”, on the events of 1355:

“… And I have heard it said they liven up no end the little parties Charles gives for his brother-in-law. Thanks to this, and having made himself his master in sin, the Navarrese proceeded to secretly turn the dauphin against his father. He pointed to evidence proving that King John did not love him at all, though he was his eldest son. And this much was true. He declared that he was a paltry king. And this was also the case. He professed to believe that, after all, it would be a pious deed if, without going so far as to put an end to his life, he helped God to at least drive him from the throne. ‘My brother, you would make a better king than he. Don’t wait until the kingdom he will leave you is in a state of collapse.’ A young man is easily beguiled by such a refrain. ‘Together we will prevail, I assure you.’ ”

Barbara Tuchman, “A Distant Mirror”, on the events of 1368:

“He had recovered from the severe headaches, toothaches, dyspepsia, and other ailments which afflicted him during his regency, but still suffered from a malady—perhaps gout—of the right hand or arm and a mysterious fistula and abscess of the left arm, probably from tuberculosis, but supposed to be the result of the attempt by Charles of Navarre to poison him in 1358. A learned physician from Prague, sent to him by his uncle the Emperor, treated the poison, but told him that if ever the abscess should cease oozing, Charles would die after fifteen days in which he would have time to settle his affairs and attend to his soul. Not surprisingly, the King lived under a sense of urgency.”

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[…]At the sound of the sacristy bell, the priests (Maffei and Stefano) snatched their daggers from their robes. Inexpertly, Maffei placed his hand on Lorenzo’s shoulder, as though to steady himself or to make sure of his aim. As Lorenzo turned, he felt the dagger’s point against his neck. Maffei lunged forward, and the tip of the dagger cut into the tensed flesh. Lorenzo leapt away, tearing off his cloak as he did so and wrapping it around his arm as a shield. He drew his sword, slashed at the two priests, who unnerved by his fast reaction, were beaten back without difficulty. Then he vaulted over the altar rail and dashed headlong for the new sacristy.

Giuliano’s mutilated body was already on the floor. At the sound of the sacristy bell he had dutifully lowered his head, and Baroncelli, crying out, ‘Take that, traitor!’, had brought his dagger down in a ferocious blow that almost split his skull in two. Francesco de’ Pazzi thereupon stabbed him with such frenzy, plunging the blade time and again into the unresisting body, that he even drove the point of the dagger through his own thigh. Giuliano fell to his knees while his two assailants continued to rain savage blows upon him, slashing and stabbing until the corpse was rent by nineteen wounds.

As Giuliano’s blood poured over the floor, Baroncelli leapt over the body and made for the new sacristy, but before he could reach the heavy bronze doors of the sacristy, Lorenzo had dashed through them, and Poliziano with some other of his friends, had managed to get them shut. ‘Giuliano? Is he safe?’ Lorenzo kept asking; but no one answered him.

The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, Christopher Hibbert.

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its sad ninjas o’clock again

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First week of Inktober

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1940s Wheel of Time ladies

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I start university in 2 weeks and this is how I spend some of my last days as a free man. do I surprise anyone anymore [original]

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[ CLOSEUPS ]

After many hours of hard work i have completed my life’s work: the entire Lodge of Sorceresses (guest starring Yennefer).

Yennefer, Triss, Sile (Sheala), Philippa, Keira, Sabrina, Assire, Fringilla, Francesca, Margarita, Ida.

Designs mostly based on existing gowns scoured on the internet. I tried to go with book lore, some of them are very different from their in-game appearances and some not so much.

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Adoration, I love you (or Eternal friendship), Purity

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I can’t believe I’ve finished these.