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Tea at Trianon
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A place for friends to meet... with reflections on politics, history, art, music, books, morals, manners, and matters of faith. A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
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A Byzantine Emperor in England

A fascinating description of East meets West in the Middle Ages. To quote:The emperor of the Greeks, seeking to get aid against the Saracens, visited the king of England in London, on the day of Sain...

17 h ago

A French Nobleman in Louisiana

Its quite a story.The story of Louis Joseph Paul Antoine Garrigues de Flaugeac began Sept. 5, 1780, in Montfaucon, France, where he was born to Jean Charles and Marie Jeanne Sabrejon. His father was ...

19 h ago

A House Without Love

The wonderful Maison de Lin blog has photos of a charming house in the French countryside which would be enchanting if fixed up. I am already half in love with it.

1 day ago

A Blot on a Golden Age

Author Nancy Bilyeau comments on the tortures suffered by Catholics under Elizabeth I.When researching an earlier blog post on “Little Ease” in the Tower of London, I came across the 1933 book The Hi...

1 day ago

Ball Gowns

All dressed up with no place to go. Apparently they no longer have court presentations of debutantes in England, presentations which the author if this article mysteriously describes as "ludicrou...

2 days ago

Bitter is Better

How we need to program our taste buds away from sugar. To quote:The tongue is a unique muscle. The best way to exercise it, if you want to make the most difference to your waistline, is not to flex o...

2 days ago

St. Pius X on St. Joan

Jeanne d’Arc est interrogée par le cardinal de Winchester dans sa prison (1824) par Paul Delaroche.Here is an excerpt from the decree of beatification of Jeanne dArc....In our time more than ever bef...

3 days ago

Stand and Fight

Here is a rant from a lady named Ann Barnhardt. In spite of some of the crude expressions, graphic language and name-calling she makes some excellent points about the dangers of retreat and compromis...

3 days ago

Tiaras

From the Wall Street Journal:This renewed interest in tiaras is likely to heighten in coming months as Queen Elizabeth II—the woman said to have the finest collection in the world—dons a glittering a...

4 days ago

Paris Through the Eyes of Children

A creative way to explore Paris with the family.Its no accident that a passport is a book, and no question that books are passports. Especially Paris books, and especially in our house. Whenever Ludw...

4 days ago

Franklin at the Court of France

Benjamin Franklin was received with great deference in 1778 by Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and their court, although Louis personally did not care for him, and put Franklins picture in the bottom of ...

5 days ago

Good Humor Treats

The ice cream truck is part of the magic of summer for many neighborhoods. (I like Blue Bunny, too.) To quote:Good Humor treats date back to 1920, when Harry Burt, a candy maker in Youngstown, Ohio, ...

5 days ago

The May Queen

The Mad Monarchist has a post on the Belgian princess who became the last Queen of Italy.The time finally came on January 8, 1930 when the glamorous Belgian Princess was married, in Rome, to her tall...

6 days ago

Silent No More

A mother grieves. To quote:There is no consolation to be had for the mother that loses a child. She will grieve in her heart for the rest of her life. Abortion; however, not only robs a child of it’s...

6 days ago

The Old West

Photos from 150 years ago. (Via Joshua.)In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy OSullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. After covering the U.S. Civil War, (many of his...

26 may 12

Stop Whining

Therapists try tough love with clients."Talking endlessly about your problems isnt going to help," says Christina Steinorth, a marriage and family therapist in Santa Barbara, Calif. She tells...

26 may 12

Cardinal Josef Mindszenty

Rehabilitated at last.The glorious Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, Archbishop-Prince of Esztergom and Primate-Regent of Hungary, has been fully rehabilitated from the legal, moral and political standpoint...

25 may 12

Poor Baby

A review of Heather Kings powerful new book.In her newest work, “Poor Baby: A Child of the 60s Looks Back on Abortion,” a self-reflective journey hovering somewhere between essay and autobiography, K...

25 may 12

A Meeting with Catherine II

Madame Lebrun minces no words.A few minutes later I was alone with the autocrat of all the Russias. The Ambassador had told me I must kiss her hand, in accordance with which custom she drew off one o...

24 may 12

More Assaults on American Women in the Military

Discharged for "personality disorders"?  "My jaw dropped when the doctors told me that 41 percent of the female veterans seen there say they were victims of sexual assault while serv...

24 may 12

The Harsh Realities of Life In the Eighteenth Century

 From author Leah Marie Brown:Those chandeliers?  The wax often dripped on the people below, burning exposed skin, ruining expensive and time-consuming hairdos, and making the dance floor a...

23 may 12

Justice for All

African-American journalist Thomas Sowell discusses the racially motivated crimes that do not get reported.One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood s...

23 may 12

Mary Henrietta of England

The daughter of Charles I and mother of William III.Wishing to imitate the French tradition of the firstborn daughter of the King being known as Madame Royale, the French-born Queen consort wanted to...

22 may 12

La Princesse de Clèves

Catherine Delors discusses one of the first historical novels.The plot is very simple: a young noblewoman, Mademoiselle de Chartres, marries the Prince de Clèves, a man she esteems and respects but d...

22 may 12

The Versailles Express

Travel in style from Paris to Versailles.

21 may 12

Etiquette According to Catherine II

From All Things Ruffnerian (via Gio):The following rules of etiquette were posted by Catherine the Great at her Hermitage and are reprinted from the 2000 exhibition catalog of Treasures of Catherine ...

21 may 12

The Flower Reader

The turbulent court of Mary Queen of Scots is the backdrop of The Flower Reader, which tells the tale of Marina Leslie of Granmuir and her struggle for survival in Reformation Scotland. Of mixed Fren...

20 may 12

Monaco and Lourdes

Believe it or not, there is a connection.The site of the vision of Our Lady of Lourdes holds a special distinction for the Princely Family of Monaco and this was not Prince Alberts first visit, nor w...

20 may 12

Forsaking All Others

In this continuation of the “Sister Wife” series, Pittman continues the story of Camilla Fox, whose flight from her Mormon husband corresponds with her spiritual awakening. Found half-frozen on the p...

19 may 12

The Dinner Jacket

How did the dinner jacket, popularly known as the "tuxedo," come to replace the traditional tailcoats in modern formal wear? According to The Wall Street Journal:The story of how the tuxedo m...

19 may 12

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