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Le Roy Soleil (The Sun King) illustration by Maurice Leloir

Louis XIV in costume as Apollo in the Ballet de la Nuit

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The Temple of Love, by Maurice Leloir, 19th century. 🌸

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The Temple of Love, Maurice Leloir, 19th century

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I save pictures of art for a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s because it sparks a story idea. Other times because I go “Ooh, that’s pretty! I wanna make that dress!” even though I probably never will. And sometimes it’s because I just find it pleasing to look at.

But every now and then I come across something that reminds me that people have always been people, and not everything was serious.

And on that note, I present:

Google tells me this is L'Escalade by Maurice Leloir.

I feel like this has potential as the next big meme.

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In Review: illustrators Special Editions - illustrators The 10th Anniversary Special

If you’re still not convinced that Book Palace Books brilliant illustrators Quarterly (aka IQ) is a publication worth purchasing, you may well be convinced by their latest illustrators Special Edition - illustrators The 10th Anniversary Special.

If you’re still not convinced that Book Palace Books brilliant illustrators Quarterly (aka IQ) is a publication worth purchasing, you may well be convinced by their latest illustrators Special Edition – illustrators The 10th Anniversary Special. After 40 issues and 18 Special issues the team have gathers together a terrific selection of their most popular articles over the last 10 years, a…

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SAS: Rogue Heroes Season 1 Episode 3 The Burial of Manon Lescaut, 1878 by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret The Burial (An illustration from Manon Lescaut), 1900 by Maurice Leloir

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En Garde! (1975) is the first roleplaying game from Game Designers’ Workshop. It’s the earliest swashbuckling game (set in Musketeer-era France, or at least a simulacra of that era constructed from swashbuckling Hollywood films).

Like Boot Hill, this is primarily a one-on-one tactical combat game, though unlike Boot Hill, there is quite a bit going on beside the combat. The combat is about what you’d expect, though an interesting complication is that duelists lay out a series of pre-planned actions in secret and then attempt to reconcile them. There’s something neat about this programming.

More interesting is the focus on the character’s life that takes up the rest of the book. There is a mechanical social life that plays out week to week, with the character taking part in social activities and, hopefully, gaining status points. This system provides a loose narrative framework for potential tomfoolery, duels and other roleplaying opportunities. It’s the first social simulation I can think of and, the ONLY one, for several years. The next thing to emerge like this is probably Midkemia’s Cities simulator.

The other interesting thing is the game’s approach to military life — a necessary part of a gentleman’s life, taking up the entirety of the summer season with campaigning, which imparts special effects, benefits and, possibly, death. This is a clear forerunner to Traveller’s tours of duty lifepath system.

It also establishes a couple of GDW’s publication practices — the book is chapbook sized, give or take, and, aside of the Maurice Leloir illustration on the cover (from The Three Musketeers), there is no art inside.

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The Busy Street, (1898)

By : Maurice Leloir (1853-1940)

French

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The Temple of Love by Maurice Leloir, 19th century

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Le temple de l'amour, Maurice Leloir

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"Je suis le Roi Soleil. – Le Ballet royal de la nuit, 1653". Illustration for "Le Roy Soleil" by Gustave Toudouze Date: 1904 Artist: Maurice Leloir (French painter and illustrator, 1853 - 1940) Location: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

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Voltaire's Last Visit to Paris,,

By Maurice Leloir..

French,, 1853 - 1940..

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🌸 Detail : The Temple of Love, by Maurice Leloir (19th century)

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MAURICE LELOIR Watercolor Illustrator Painter, Cartoonist, Engraver, French Writer period: 1853-1940 Title of the work: In the King's Passage Leloir was the son and student of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolor Hélo ïse Suzanne Colin, daughter of painter Alexandre Marie Colin https://www.instagram.com/p/Cead5bzsJ4R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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file: Tête féminine de dos avec coiffe de dentelle, Fonds d’archives graphiques de Maurice Leloir, 1962.67.11.4.22.jpg

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"The Drink of Milk" by Maurice Leloir

French, 1882

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