#madame de tourvel

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 12/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

[perioddramapolls]

Period drama's dresses tournament: White dresses Round 1- Group C: Catherine of Russia, The great (2) (gifset) vs Marie de Tourvel, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

[costumeloverz71]

Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer) Yellow dress.. Dangerous Liasons (1988).. Costume by James Acheson.

[shallweswoon]

“Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty.

As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it.

I didn’t understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life.

I knew it was hopeless, but that didn’t matter to me. And it’s not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I’ll do anything you say.”

John Malcovich and Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons 1988

[meerawrites]

Character intro: Madame de Tourvel

Inspired by: Tourvel in the source material. Michelle Pfeiffer’s Madame de Tourvel.

Character summary: she/her, white-French, discreet bisexual. Valmont’s “object of desire.”

Fun Fact: she is married, but her husband is neglectful but she is the very time period typical image of “virtue,” I feel really bad for her. But also, her and Valmont are disturbing yet fascinating.

As genre commentary: she has far more adjacency in my novella than in the source material, but it’s always nice to know that married women, even if neglected by their spouse, could be pillars of virtue, even in the 18th century.

[uri59]

Finally I catched up to the correspondence of those frisky nobles, here's the vibe I'm getting from them so far:

The Vicomte de Valmont:

The Marquise de Merteuil:

The Présidente de Tourvel:

Madame de Volanges:

le Chevalier Danceny:

Cecile Volanges:

Bonus, "The curator":

[dodger-chan]

Oof, I got so behind while finishing Dracula. Okay.

Madame de Rosemonde is great. Every young woman needs an older woman like her in their life. She won't help you avoid many bad decisions, but she won't reject you when you make them. Cécile, you are staying with the only person in this book that might be of any help to you. Maybe you should talk to her.

Tourvel, take a few deep breaths and tone it down. No man is worth this level of devotion, especially not Valmont. My instinct is to doubt her observations and assume she is over-interpreting his behavior as more emotionally invested than he really is. At the same time, I did think he was already genuinely falling for her earlier, so maybe she is not as far off the mark as she seems.

[monstersqueen]

elle a refusé un moyen de me voir ! Vous ne me dites pas quel il était ; s’il y avait en effet trop de danger, elle sait bien que je ne veux pas qu’elle se risque trop. Mais aussi je connais votre prudence ;

eh bèh il a bien manœuvré sur ce coup-là le valmont. pratique, d'être leur intermédiaire, pour donner aux évènements l'allure qu'il veut !

[adaptationsdaily]

Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame Marie de Tourvel Dangerous Liaisons (1988) dir. Stephen Frears

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 10/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: White dresses Round 2- Group C: Amalia de los Robles, Bugambilia vs Marie de Tourvel, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

[movie-gifs]

Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame Marie de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) dir. Stephen Frears

[msfbgraves]

Thoughts on a Silverusso Regency AU? I'm sorry I just want to see them waltzing in a crowded ballroom in front of jealous hoes 🥺

I've already said that TKK3 is essentially Les Liaisons Dangereuses set in The Valley with Terry as Valmont Kreese as the marquise de Merteuil and Daniel as madame de Tourvel, so you could do that only with Daniel as a single victim. Not regency, though, little earlier and I'm guessing you want omega Daniel? Or indeed not - Daniel, young and happily married to a sweet girl, or at least hoping to propose, getting introduced by Terry to the pleasures of, not gay sex (he's done that) but crossdressing (far more risqué!). Who is this belle on Silver's arm who he refuses to introduce yet flagrantly stands up with all night? The man has no shame!

If you need a Regency abo, Daniel is an impoverished omega after the loss of the estate through the death of his father. Indeed, his young cousin Louie is the heir and although Louie sr. graciously allows him and his mother to live at the estate until Daniel is married, that has more to do with all the money settled on them both having been tied up in the estate. Mr. LaRusso had hoped to save up the cash in the next ten years for a dowry, but he died unexpectedly, and the heir that would have secured Daniel and Lucille's place at home also didn't materialize. It's all very unfortunate since Uncle Louie sr also failed to make arrangements due to simply spending all the income and fuck Daniel's money, amirite, they're lucky to have a roof over their heads. Daniel wouldn't want his home sold now to have such a paltry sum? He'll get it when he gets it (never). So Daniel is sent far away to get married because he won't have his youth forever so chop chop get yourself wed and you and Lucille out of his hair and the county so people will forget he's still owed money.

And Daniel draws the eye of John Lawrence, ward of John Kreese, who are both poorer than they pretend to be. Johnny needs a good match but boy is smitten so Mr. Terry Silver, son of an Irish Earl's daughter who married a Jewish man for money, sans title but now with more money than God and a reputation black as sin is like, on it. I'll convince him to elope, John, send him back utterly ruined and your Johnny won't be able to marry him at all. And he gets very close. Except Johnny warns Daniel and Daniel is like "if I can't honourably marry, I will not marry at all", but nobody says no to Terry Silver, who by now is head over heels. But ah!, Oh no, sir, you would betray my confidence and ruin me and my poor mother! He cannot give in! And Terry is like "I want to marry you by special license in Westminster Abbey do not make me kidnap you!" And Daniel is like "I could not give my heart to a dishonest man!" And Terry is "Pray ask me anything and it's yours!"

"Simple peace, Sir..."

Cue the most insane and extended courtship the country has ever seen.

[straightplayshowdown]

Intimate Apparel: In 1905 New York, Esther is a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments. There is warm affection between her and the Orthodox Jewish man who sells fabrics to her, but any relationship between them is completely forbidden. Seeking love and romance, Esther eventually embarks on a letter-writing relationship with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. When he moves to New York they embark on an unhappy marriage, leading Esther to realize that only her self-reliance and certainty of her own worth will see her through life’s challenges.

Les liaisons dangereuses: The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cruel games. Their targets are the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges, a young girl who has fallen in love with her music tutor, the Chevalier Danceny. In order to gain their trust, Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the secret lovers so they can use them later in their own treacherous schemes.

Propaganda under the cut!

Intimate Apparel:

No propaganda submitted

Les liaisons dangereuses:

It was the play the Oscar nominated movie "Dangerous Liaisons" was based on

[meerawrites]

Nano 2023 intro: liaisons x vampires

Les Liaisons dangereuses (English: Dangerous connections or dangerous liaisons) meets Anne Rice, everyone’s bi and varying degrees of unreliable. A send-up of capitalism, absolute power, patriarchy, abuse & more.

Genre: gothic historical horror but make it rococo and a send-up of capitalism and corruption and what the original novella was regarding the ancien regime in its day.

Characters:

Audrey, she/they, white-French, bisexual, primary (unreliable) narrator, a vampire.

Camille, she/her, white-French, bisexual, secondary (unreliable) narrator, a vampire.

Isabella “Elise”, she/her, white-American, bisexual, the journalist being told this story, an audience stand in, of a kind, but also her own character, a journalist and human call girl at the same time, based in the Castro of San Francisco.

Marquise de Merteuil, she/her, white-French, bisexual, an antagonist.

Vicomte de Valmont, he/him, white-French, bisexual, an antagonist.

Cécile Volanges, she/her, white-French, unknowing bisexual. The ingenue.

Madame de Tourvel, she/her, white-French, discreet bisexual. Valmont’s “object of desire.”

Chevalier Danceny, he/him, white-French, bisexual, a character of inherent ambiguity.

Emilie, she/her, Creole-French-black-biracial, bisexual. A foil character to Audrey and Camille.

Father Anselme, he/him, white-French, queer clergy and silent about it. Antagonist enabler.

Explanations: what is the ancien régime?

The Libertine novel

Vampirism as sexual allegory

Vampirism as capitalism

Inspirations & source material:

Les Liaisons dangereuses

Interview with the Vampire

The Vampire Lestat

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Fun things!

Playlist Pinterest board

Dangerous Liaisons Daily Tag

My link of links

[laufire]

[Vicomte de Valmont, October 3rd]: My friend, I am tricked, betrayed, lost, I am in despair; Madame de Tourvel has gone. She has gone, and I did not know it! And I was not there to oppose departure, to reproach her with her unworthy treachery! Ah, do not think I would have let her leave; she would have stayed; yes, she would have stayed, if I had had to employ violence! [...] What pleasure I shall take in avenging myself! I shall find her again, this perfidious woman; I shall resume my empire over her. If love sufficed to procure me the means of that, what will it not do when assisted by vengeance? I shall see her again at my knees, trembling and bathed in tears, crying for mercy with her deceitful voice; and I – I shall be pitiless. - [The Marquise de Merteuil, November 24th]: You appear to make a great merit of your last scene with the Présidente; but, pray, what does it prove for your system, or against mine? I certainly never said that you loved this woman well enough not to deceive her, or not to seize every occasion which might seem to you easy or agreeable: I never even doubted but that it would be very much the same to you to satisfy with another, with the first comer, the same desires which she alone could have raised; and I am not surprised that, in the licentiousness of mind which one would be wrong to deny you, you have done once from deliberation what you have done a thousand times from opportunity.

Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.