#Bourbon restoration

[clove-pinks]

Redingote c. 1815-1825 in piqué de coton (Paris Musées).

Description and machine translation:

Redingote longue et croisée en piqué de coton blanc, col droit rabattu, 2 poches à revers boutonnés derrière et une poche intérieure gauche, fermé par 12 boutons, 2 petits boutons aux manches.

Long, double-breasted frock coat in white cotton piqué, straight turn-down collar, 2 buttoned cuffed pockets behind and one left inside pocket, closed with 12 buttons, 2 small buttons on the sleeves.

The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming describes piqué as a textile from the 19th century and later, "Usually a cotton fabric, woven with a raised rib, often in a diamond pattern, also in straight horizontal or vertical ribs."

[burningvelvet]

Lord Byron’s journal entry for April 19th 1814. He expresses his depression after the Bourbon Restoration:

"April 19. 1814.

There is ice at both poles, north and south — all extremes are the same — misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only, — to the emperor and the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned. There is, to be sure, a damned insipid medium — an equinoctial line — no one knows where, except upon maps and measurement.

‘And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death.'*

I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch-light; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume, and write, in Ipecacuanha, — ‘that the Bourbons are restored!!!' — 'Hang up philosophy.'** To be sure, I have long despised myself and man, but I never spat in the face of my species before — 'O fool! I shall go mad.'***”

* Macbeth ** Romeo and Juliet *** King Lear

[joachimnapoleon]

Just released:

I had the privilege of reading the first draft of this, so I’m really looking forward to the final, polished version. Jonathan North has utilized archival sources from both France and Naples, including the diary of one of Murat’s aides who accompanied him on his final journey, to put together the most thorough examination of the events leading up to Murat’s death ever published.

The book is available now in the UK (see the post on Jonathan’s page linked below for where you can buy it from) and should be available in the US next month (Amazon shows December 30).

[vivelareine]

An engraving of Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. This engraving was published on March 12th, 1815, just days before Napoleon returned to Paris for "The Hundred Days."

[hayzeydayzey]

Gavarni dandies but Rich "eras"

(Rich is not 1830s but doesn't he look snazzy!)

[tiny-librarian]

Miniature of Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme.

[empirearchives]

The White Terror and Political Reaction after Waterloo. By Daniel P. Resnick

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige Silk Dress, 1815-1820, Possibly French.

Worn by Mehetable Stoddard Sumner.

MFA Boston.

[shannonselin]

Detail of the coronation of Charles X, by François Gérard

The last of the senior French Bourbon kings, Charles X -- the "Don Juan of Versailles" -- died of cholera in Slovenia on November 6, 1836. For more about this wastrel and reactionary whose behaviour helped to discredit French royalty, see “The Count of Artois: Charles X of France.”

[elliottandstuff50]

Louis Philippe I vs Charles X (It's King vs King.) During the July Revolution.

This is a revolution between Kings. First one is Louis Philippe I, and the Second one i is Charles X. The fight between the Kings of France.

[elgallinero]

Apprendre le Francais

youtube.com/watch

[joachimnapoleon]

A great article by a friend of mine on a Corsican officer who accompanied Murat on his ill-fated final enterprise.

[vsirsa]

my beautiful wife rowland & brian hooper in 2006

[hayzeydayzey]

My sweet dandies Rich and Seb!

[tiny-librarian]

Her Royal Highness, Madame the Duchesse d’Angouleme.