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Volker Bruch in Goethe! (Young Goethe in Love).

*Miriam Stein and Volker Bruch met while shooting this film.

*Volker Bruch’s character is named Wilhelm and Miriam Stein’s Charlotte (!)

*Volker’s character sometimes stammers a bit, which is sort of cute.

*The film is (obviously) based on a true story, and this sort of breaks my heart!

(*Alexander Fehling who plays Goethe, is really handsome as well!)

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It’s not pink. It’s lightish red.

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Orlando (1992)

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Collot d'Herbois by Mikhail Sokolov

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The doors were promptly flung open and six hundred men, armed with swords, pistols, and pikes, appeared, half drunk and calling deafeningly for death to all traitors as they trotted round to the sound of wild applause. ‘Yes!’ Collot d'Herbois shouted back. 'Yes, my friends, despite all the intrigues, we will save you, you–and liberty!’

The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Alexandre Dumas

This is the second major revolutionary to be introduced–he certainly likes to give them dramatic openings. Although the bias may be starting to be more obvious.

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They say I am luxurious. I have a profound love of all the arts. Beauty pleases me as much as goodness. I paint, I draw, I compose, I carve, I engrave, I write poetry, I have composed seventeen comedies in five years. I have decorated my own rooms - that is the luxury they talk of.

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No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free!

Jean-Paul Marat (via themanshouldsail)

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Winter Fashion Inspiration: Jean-Paul Marat

Though he was said to be “short in stature, deformed in person, and hideous in face” French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat remains a style icon since his assassination in 1793. If anyone is the authority on dressing for the cold, it’s a radical journalist who hid in the sewers of Paris in the dead of winter, contracting a skin disease that later forced him to lay in an ice bath to soothe his scab-covered flesh.

1. Hats

Hats are totally on trend right now will also keep you warm! Take a leaf out of Jean-Paul’s book and accessorise with a white winter turban. For extra warmth, layer it with the scalp of weak Girondist scum!

2. Scarves

Friend of the people, friend of the accessory! A scarf might not save you from a beheading, but it can save you from a boring outift. Throw on a scarf to keep you warm on those chilly days. Perfect for work, school or attacking the aristocracy.

3. Knee high Boots

Boots are a staple for any winter wardrobe and long boots are fantastic for warmth, especially when wading through sewers while hiding from your enemies, who are seeking to have you tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal for your radical publications. 

4. Coats

If Jean-Paul Marat believed in anything (besides the execution of counter-revolutionaries, abolishing the monarchy and human rights for the poorest members of society) it was the need for a winter coat that is both functional and fashionable. 

I hope you enjoyed these tips for staying this winter. Stay warm - and be careful in the bathtub!

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Sybil (née Sassoon), Marchioness of Cholmondeley by Sir John Lavery

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Get to Know Me Meme: Royal edition

[3/5] Royal Facts

Gustav III of Sweden is said to be one of the leading patrons for the arts of the 18th century and is now regarded as having been crucial to Swedish culture. He was said to be quite fond of both the performing and visual arts. He helped create the Royal Theater, where many of his own plays were performed, and he was very keen at promoting native singers and actors. In addition, he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and Ballet and the Royal Dramatic Theater. He also built a new opera house, connected to Stockholm Palace by the Norrbro bridge. In an ironic twist, the lobby of the opera house was where Gustav III met his tragic end, when he was assassinated. 

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They say I am luxurious. I have a profound love of all the arts. Beauty pleases me as much as goodness. I paint, I draw, I compose, I carve, I engrave, I write poetry, I have composed seventeen comedies in five years. I have decorated my own rooms - that is the luxury they talk of.

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historical women 16/?: Queen Christina, 1626-1689

Christina is remembered as one of the most educated women of the 1600s. She was fond of books, manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures. With her interest in religion, philosophy, mathematics and alchemy, she attracted many scientists to Stockholm, wanting the city to become the “Athens of the North”. She was intelligent, fickle and moody; she rejected what the sexual role of a woman was at the time. She caused a scandal when she decided not to marry and in 1654 when she abdicated her throne and converted to Roman Catholicism… At the age of 28, the “Minerva of the North” moved to Rome. The Pope described Christina as “a queen without a realm, a Christian without faith, and a woman without shame”.

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In a 1,000 page book entitled “The Miserable” this is the saddest chapter heading. No debate.

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She walks among the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water - She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower her son, every tree her daughter.

An excerpt from The Land (1926) by Vita Sackville-West (via sangfroidwoolf)

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Vita Sackville-West, aged 22.