#Olympe Mancini

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Love, death, scandal and celebrity.

Nonetheless Mlle Du Parc, no longer merely a dutiful wife and a valuable actress of the second rank, but a tragedy queen and the mistress of an ambitious and increasingly celebrated poet, was edging up toward stardom. In memory she will seem to have been more than she was. According to Jacques de Losme de Monchesnay, who published reminiscences of Boileau, even that well-known realist remembered Mlle Du Parc as "the most famous of [Molière's] actresses." If she had lived a little longer, if she had played some or all of the rest of Racine's heroines, she might well have been the first real star of the French stage. Unfortunately, a year later she had died in mysterious circumstances, and that, combined with accusations made some years later during the so-called Poison scandals, created her posthumous notoriety.

Briefly- since the story can be easily found elsewhere- Mlle Du Parc probably had a daughter by Racine in May 1668. This conclusion rests on two bits of evidence. On May 12, 1668, a female child, Jeanne-Thérèse, supposedly the daughter of unknowns Pierre Olivier and Marie Courturier, was baptized in Auteuil. The godparents were Racine and the 10 year old daughter of Marquise Du Parc, Marie-Anne. That this was actually the daughter of Racine and Marquise-Thérèse Du Parc is substantiated by Jean-Baptiste Racine's anonymous friend who wrote:

"M.Racine still very young was attached to Mlle Du Parc… he had a daughter by her who died at about eight years and was buried at Saint Roch. These facts were to be found in an oblong registre where M. Racine wrote down his receipts and expenses. In this registre, which Monsieur his son burned after having perused it, there were, among other articles: "So much… for the nurse of my F[ille?]" and… "So much for the burial of my daughter."

After considering this evidence, Georges Forestier finds it "highly probable" that Jean-Baptiste's friend was right, that there was a child, and concludes that it had to be kept secret, since neither the playwright nor the actress could afford the scandal of illegitimacy.

At the same time, gossip began to circulate about Mlle Du Parc. The same tale was told about two different enamored young gentlemen. According to Mme de Montmorency, in a letter of July 10, 1668, the family of the chevalier de Genlis found it necessary to lock him up because of his crazy whim to marry Marquise Du Parc, but according to a series of letters between Bussy-Rabutin and Mme d’Armentières it was the chevalier de Rohan who was struck by this madness. In any case, even if both of them had wanted to make such an unconventional marriage, she probably had very little interest in marrying a stage-struck boy. And, according to one totally unreliable witness, she was at that point secretly married to Racine.

The run of Andromaque was interrupted in mid-December 1667 by the sudden death of Montfleury, who supposedly burst a blood vessel while performing a mad scene in Act V. If or when performances were resumed, and with what actor, is unknown. Nor do we have any further information about Mlle Du Parc’s repertory at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. If she was pregnant through the spring, she may have stayed off the stage. Actresses normally played throughout their pregnancies, but hers was irregular. And then she seems to have become pregnant again.

According to Boileau, she died en couches, in childbirth. This happened on December 11, 1668, almost exactly eight months after the birth of Jeanne-Thérèse, casting some doubt on a full-term pregnancy. The consensus would seem to be a miscarriage, but whether natural or induced is a matter of speculation.

That speculation has been fueled by what happened eleven years later. Racine, disgusted by the fate of his great tragedy Phèdre, victim of a cabal, retreated from the theatre. On May 30, 1677 he married Catherine de Romanet, a choice based not on love or self-interest, but purely on reason, or so says Louis Racine. Racine had increased his status by purchasing the office of trésorier de France and had been named a royal historiographer by Louis XIV. In November 1679 he was the father of a son, Jean-Baptiste, and about to be a father for a second time when the notorious la Voisin, an abortionist involved in all sorts of nefarious back-alley activities, testified that Mlle Du Parc had been poisoned, and that her two daughters and her stepmother, who had been living with her, suspected that Jean Racine was the cause of their unhappiness.

The evidence was scanty, and Racine himself was never questioned or arrested, although an order for his arrest was issued at one point. A few months later the king made it clear that the position of M. Racine was secure when the Troupe Royale played his Iphigénie as entertainment for a wedding at court and his annual “gratification” was raised to 2,000 livres. Since all of the testimony heard by the chambre ardente, a court established by the king to root out sorcery and black magic, was kept secret, it is perfectly possible that Racine never even knew he had been accused. This sordid episode did not come to light, so far as I can tell, until the nineteenth century, when scholars began to sort through the Archives of the Bastille, preparatory to their publication. Its influence has been on modern biographies of Racine and Mlle Du Parc and, especially in her case, on the creation of a myth of celebrity/notoriety after the fact.

Mlle Du Parc may have been acquainted with la Voisin and used her services. La Voisin’s own testimony that Racine would not let her see the dying actress suggests that the playwright suspected that the famous abortionist had been practicing her trade on his mistress. Mlle Du Parc also seems to have been linked to Olympe Mancini, the comtesse de Soissons, one of cardinal Mazarin’s nieces, who was so deeply implicated in the poison affair that she had to leave Paris suddenly and pass the rest of her life in exile. In her two examinations concerning the actress, la Voisin testified that Mlle Du Parc’s two daughters, Marie-Anne and Catherine, aged 9 and and 10 at the time of their mother’s death, were living in 1679 at the Hôtel de Soissons, presumably under the protection of the comtesse, who was also the sister of the duchesse de Bouillon, one of the leaders of the cabal against Racine that emptied the house the first night of Phèdre.

Mlle Du Parc’s name came up for the first time in the testimony of la Voisin’s servant, la Boutier, who claimed “she had often seen la Du Parc, an actress, who was the commère, the gossip, of la Voisin and her intimate friend.” Several days later, la Voisin was asked about the connection, and she may at this point have taken advantage of the opportunity and added more ammunition to the Mazarines’ war on Racine by naming him. Why Marquise Du Parc’s daughters were being cared for by an enemy of her lover, however, is difficult to account for.

When Marquise Du Parc died in 1668, the gazetteer Robinet devoted 46 lines to her demise and her funeral. He repeated all the clichés that had built up over time: she was “belle,” she had the bearing of a queen, Eros pulled his bow for her, and so forth. Her coffin was followed by a horde of actors, authors, and those who adored her (some incognito), those who had loved her, and one, among the playwrights, who was half-dead himself. And, of course, a crowd of those who had seen her on stage.

Obviously, Mlle Du Parc went to her grave a star, a celebrity actress whose limited career was less important than her reputation as a seductive beauty.

Virginia Scott- Women on the Stage in Early Modern France: 1540-1750.

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Natalie D'Alessandro and Bruce Waddell skating to music from Funny Face and Victor/Victoria for their rhythm dance at the 2020 Youth Olympics.

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The Pink Panther by Henry Mancini and Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones.

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Olympe Mancini by Pierre Mignard, 1700.

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Have you ever seen the Chucky tv series? Definitely not everyone's cup of tea but the way I'm just so stupidly shocked that of all the basic cable tv series written by gay men based on 80s movies... it's the murder doll that took the "fuck you I'm writing a positive portrayal of gay teen boyfriends front and center" approach? They're just out there making fun of each other's come-on attempts and kissing each other nearly every episode? Did we know that was an option? Does Jeff Davis?

i have not but dan mancini created the child's play franchise (ie: chucky) and is openly gay.

wiki linked an interview achieved on the wayback machine he gave to camp blood.

I often find that queer artists – filmmakers, in particular – have a skewed view of the "traditional" family unit. While the killer dolls in the last 2 Child's Play films do seem to share a sort of familial bond, I think it’s fair to say that they’re not exactly Ozzie and Harriet. What’s behind your discussion of family values? As a gay kid, and an athlete, in an Italian family, I had a very contentious relationship with my stereotypically macho father. He wanted me to be an Olympic runner, but as I got into my late teens, I developed other interests -- like filmmaking and guys -- and you can't be an elite runner unless that's the only thing in your life. My relationship with my Dad is reflected, in a metaphoric way, in Glen's relationship with Chucky in Seed: Chucky wants to make a man out of Glen by encouraging him to kill, but Glen wants to remain true to himself. I imagine this sort of parent-child discord is fairly universal, regardless of the kid's sexuality. Most kids tend to rebel, sooner or later -- at least, they do if they're interesting.

i think it's really important to remember that jeff davis was beholden to MTV/Viacom in a different era of television. even a decade ago it was a totally different landscape and that context matters.

mtv was trying out original scripted programming at the time teen wolf was created/aired. they were wanting to capitalize on the supernatural romance craze. they wanted to be legitimate and being legitmate meant having heavy hitting advertisers and winning over particular demographics. none of that would happen with an openly queer protagonist.

it has always been a struggle.

like legend of korra aired it's last episode in 2014 with canon korrasami and all they did was hold hands and that was revolutionary at the time.

jeff did have lofty ambitions for teen wolf and it fell short for many, many reasons and i don't think it rests solely on his shoulders (even as i drag him through the streets of tumblr tarred and feathered). i also think people really sell short just how queer teen wolf is even when it was being forced to not be queer.

and that includes the queerbaiting which it very much did but also i will die upon the hill that sterek is present in the narrative even as it was used for queerbait.

horror as a genre has always been fucking fruity and like werewolves y'all. fucking werewolves.

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Baroque dresses and a super-celebrity -

Top  Lady in a gold and blue dress by Dutch school (location ?). From tumblr.com/catherinedefrance 1280X1673 @72 840kj.

Second row left  1653 Woman by Adriaen Hanneman (State Pushkin Museum - Moskva, Russia). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 965X1200 @72 220kj.

Second row right  1670 Dudleia Cullum, née North, Lady Cullum by Sir Peter Lely (St Edmundsbury Museums - St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, UK). From tumblr.com/fashion-inspiration-s; fixed spots w Pshop 989X1200 @72 328kj.

Third row  Presumed portrait of Olympe Mancini by French school (Aguttes - 6Dec22 auction Lot 43). From their Web site 2252X2812 @144 4.5Mp. She and her sisters and two related Martinozzi girls made a major splash when Cardinal Mazarin introduced them to the French court.

Fourth row  1660-1680 Noble lady with a dog by Jan de Baen (Louvre). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 1176X1456 @72 500kj

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Thank you, Italy, for saving hot girl summer and preventing the apocalypse! All kidding aside (sorry to all my English friends), Italy deserved to win because they were the strongest team in the Euros this year even if they still need some work to do. Much respect to England, though, who fought hard and didn't make it easy for Italy. As much as I griped about England's tactics as I thought there was so much talent there that could be utilized in more interesting ways instead of playing it safe, their defensive work was good in the first half whereas you could tell Italy was struggling with Spinazzola's absence. Messy defense that was way too open, sloppy giveaway passes that made me increasingly irritable, etc. But I knew Mancini would be able to reset things at halftime and sure enough, Italy were the better side in the second half and extra time. 

Italy doesn't have a deep bench of all-star names, but there's something special about Mancini's Italy. The Azzurri feel like a united team with great chemistry on and off the pitch, and Mancini has done something new with them. This isn't the defense-heavy and cynical (and some, including me, may say dirty, cheating, diving) Italy who have talent but have no interest in taking risks up front; this is a forward-thinking and positive one despite this frustrating final.

I think you can say the same thing for Southgate's England. Lots of great individual players, particularly young ones with potential, but unlike the England we're used to, they not only have that, but they also have teamwork locked down (also, they’re not messy, for the most part, unlike previous English squads; these are decent guys who are really doing things to be good role models). I'd like to see Southgate change his strategic moves especially as some have been questionable, but we'll see how it goes. I only hope that England doesn't give Rashford, Sancho, and Saka a hard time; I'm not sure it was wise to go with them instead of experienced players and other than hoping that they don't get abuse hurled at them, I hope this doesn't haunt them (particularly poor Saka who was inconsolable). But if I’m going to be petty, I’m only sad for the English players I like and do not at all feel terrible for the worst fans ever lmao. 

Anyway, lots to look forward to! Now I'm gonna have to deal with post-international tournament blues. :')))

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I’m supposed to be writing my wife’s birthday card right now but all I keep hearing in my mind is John Williams Olympic fanfare. I remember when I first heard it… the 1984 Olympics. We were watching it on our wood encased tv 📺 - my father always liked Henry Mancini and John Williams music, but never while driving. Later when downloading music became a thing it was one of the first items he wanted put on his phone, in addition to Enya and the Superman soundtrack. This olympics my dad isn’t around to hear the music - it’s amazing how listening to music can take you back to a place, a time. Some days I can’t for the life of me remember things that have happened as a child but playing that anthem could bring me to tears for all the memories that rush in swirling around.