LOL Google translate. The Chevalier de Lorraine, whose first name was "Philippe" which thus is not useable for either fanfiction or histories, least favourite person of both Philippe d'Orleans' wives, suddenly sounds like a fairy tale character.
ahahaha thank you for pointing this out! (Me: Oh, another person I haven't heard of, huh? ...OH.)
as Louis' secretary of war, Louvois of course has a great deal of responsibility for the scouring of the shire, err, the Palatinate, Liselotte's home which Louis shamelessly claimed in her name. The ultimate responsibility is with Louis, but blaming the King who can lock you up in a nunnery is always dicy.
Again, thank you! Yeah... I can't blame her for that. Also that I agree it doesn't make sehse for her to bias her remarks against Eugene??
These were the first homosexual characters I encountered in fiction at age 9 or so, and I don't think I encountered any sympathetically written gay characters - in historical or centemporary fiction - until when I was 13 and read The Mists of Avalon (and then the Darkover novels). (Insert obvious comment about MZB's later discovered rl terribleness here, but those books were quite eye opening to young me back then.)
Gosh, I read Angelique and I don't remember this, it must have gone straight over my head! I also don't remember them in Avalon, which I read at age 11 or 12... I think I really didn't understand what was going on until a couple of years later. I know that by the time I was 14 or 15 I had read A House Like a Lotus and Songmaster and recognized those as sympathetic gay characters.
if you can get a digital copy of Voltaire's "Age of Louis XIV" in either English or German for me, I would be very grateful, and since this is supposed to be one of his big oeuvres, I would also do a write up for you.
Re: French gossipy sensationalism
ahahaha thank you for pointing this out!
(Me: Oh, another person I haven't heard of, huh? ...OH.)
as Louis' secretary of war, Louvois of course has a great deal of responsibility for the scouring of the shire, err, the Palatinate, Liselotte's home which Louis shamelessly claimed in her name. The ultimate responsibility is with Louis, but blaming the King who can lock you up in a nunnery is always dicy.
Again, thank you! Yeah... I can't blame her for that. Also that I agree it doesn't make sehse for her to bias her remarks against Eugene??
These were the first homosexual characters I encountered in fiction at age 9 or so, and I don't think I encountered any sympathetically written gay characters - in historical or centemporary fiction - until when I was 13 and read The Mists of Avalon (and then the Darkover novels). (Insert obvious comment about MZB's later discovered rl terribleness here, but those books were quite eye opening to young me back then.)
Gosh, I read Angelique and I don't remember this, it must have gone straight over my head! I also don't remember them in Avalon, which I read at age 11 or 12... I think I really didn't understand what was going on until a couple of years later. I know that by the time I was 14 or 15 I had read A House Like a Lotus and Songmaster and recognized those as sympathetic gay characters.
if you can get a digital copy of Voltaire's "Age of Louis XIV" in either English or German for me, I would be very grateful, and since this is supposed to be one of his big oeuvres, I would also do a write up for you.
Yay, I am so excited!! :D