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[isadomna]

The English ambassador, Francis Bryan, sent a detailed description of the relations between Francis and Eleanor to Henry VIII. They were not a happy couple because “being both in one house, they lie not together once in four nights” and the French King “speaks very seldom unto her openly”. He also spent hours on end in his mother’s chambers and rushed to his mistress whenever he pleased. Two years later the King’s sister told the Duke of Norfolk that no man could be less satisfied with his wife than her brother, who failed to have sexual relations with his wife for seven months. When the stunned duke asked why, Margaret replied that it was “because he does not find her pleasing to his appetite”. Eleanor, Margaret continued unabashed, “is very hot in bed and desired to be too much embraced”, causing Francis to shun her company. Perhaps one of the reasons for Francis’s distaste was Eleanor’s appearance. Brantôme wrote that he heard rumours that “when she was dressed, she seemed a very beautiful princess of rich and beautiful height, but when she was undressed, the height of her body appeared so long one would have believed that she was a giant, but so short were her legs and thighs, she made one think of a dwarf”. Whatever she looked like, the new Queen of France found life at court difficult. Her relationship with Francis turned sour, she had to compete for his affection with his mother and mistress and even his erudite sister, who seemed kind and approachable, favoured Anne de Pisseleu, with whom she shared similar interests in literature and religion. Margaret, it seemed, preferred the company of her mother and Francis’s mistress to that of Eleanor’s.

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Henry VIII and Francis I

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles François Jalabert (French, 1818-1901) Galatée

[ego-meliorem-esse]

I can’t find the ask that said they request more fruk, but my love if you’re out there, pls accept this🥲

I also seem to have forgotten how to draw Arthur. Woe is me. :)

[diioonysus]

dresses in art

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Pharmacy Art Nouveau in Dover, La Delivrande, FRANCE - Architect Francois Rouvray 1901

[literal-katastrophe]

Instagram made me do it

[dailyworldcinema]

Françoise Dorléac in The Soft Skin (1964) Dir. François Truffaut

[ivanscarf]

2p FACE family halloween

[emaadsidiki]

Guichets Lesdiguieres 🏛️ Palais du Louvre ᘡ︶꒷

[ethrrial-celestialsb]

The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher, 1751, oil on canvas

[ecrasonslinfame]

Tulipes, Les Issambres, avril 2024

[hellonerf]

2p allies

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Marcel Verdier (French, 1817–1856) Mary Matthews, Madame Julien-Francois-Bertrand de La Chere (1824-1890), 1843 National Trust, Sizergh Castle

[ego-meliorem-esse]

My late contribution to the beautiful bride and ugly groom trend

It pained me to make François the beautiful bride but by god and all his angels The Rat is just not it

[famousinuniverse]

Place Francois Rude, Dijon, France: This place is also known as Bareuzai Square, and is a central point in the medieval center of Dijon. The surrounding streets are pedestrian, and it is a very pleasant place to take a stroll, or have a drink. The Moulin A Vent is a very good restaurant in the square which was built in a love old house....Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Wikipedia

[renaissancefailmarriage]

françois in the 19th century would try to engage gilbert in discussions of novels and it's the most frustrating endeavor in the WORLD because gilbert is like the fuckign cinemasins guy. "why would emma bovary have an affair even though the scandal could ruin her. that was dumb. and therefore this book is Bad" level of literary analysis. françois seethes in sexual frustration and fights the urge to point out that gilbert is having an ill-advised affair RIGHT NOW. WITH HIM.