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<title><![CDATA[XVIII Century Portrait]]></title>
<link>http://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/xviii-century-portrait/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Romans would call it a map of experience, Saint-Simon &#8212; a battle-field where every vice fi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Romans would call it a map of experience, Saint-Simon &#8212; a battle-field where every vice fights for the posession of its master, Oscar Wild &#8212; a Victorian voodoo fetish, and I call it another reflection where everything is backwards.</p>
<p><a href="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/la-tc3aate-de-louis-xvi.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3780" title="La tête de Louis XVI" src="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/la-tc3aate-de-louis-xvi.jpg?w=283&#038;h=300" alt="" width="283" height="300" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quay Brothers At Musée Carnavalet ]]></title>
<link>http://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/musee-carnavalet-and-quay-brothers/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On the third floor of the museum there is a small shelf where you can see some personal belongings o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-207.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-706" title="Versailles, 2010-2 207" src="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-207.jpg?w=300&#038;h=235" alt="" width="300" height="235" /></a><a href="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-219.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-700" title="Versailles, 2010-2 219" src="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-219.jpg?w=300&#038;h=266" alt="" width="300" height="266" /></a>On the third floor of the museum there is a small shelf where you can see some <a href="http://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1143&#38;action=edit&#38;message=1">personal belongings</a> of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, the ones the king and the queen  were allowed to keep while they were locked up during the trial and before the execution: some silverware, a razor, a chess set, two precision tools. His finger-ring, known as <em>the Tears of Louis XVI.</em> Her finger-ring with the locks of hair interwoven on the inside of the indented surface. Five miniature toy soldiers of the <em>Dauphin</em>, one of the soldiers has a leg missing&#8230;.</p>
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<p>On the shelf immediately below, three hairpins in the shape of butterflies; the hairpins are made out of Louis XVI&#8217;s clothes, they are made by the nuns in whose care the king&#8217;s body came after the execution. On the shelf further to the left, two toy guillotines made out of ivory, complete with the toy guards and executioners. Next shelf to the left has a toy head of the guillotined Louis XVI, in the back of the head there is some real hair. Is this the king&#8217;s real hair? Further to the left, in the corner, we see an exact and very functional although somewhat smaller replica of guillotine. Is this the original from Scotland?</p>
<p><a href="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-222.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-702" title="Versailles, 2010-2 222" src="http://versaillesgossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/versailles-2010-2-222.jpg?w=145&#038;h=300" alt="" width="145" height="300" /></a> There are paintings of the royal family incarcerated, a portrait of Louis XVII, a painting showing Louis XVII taken away from his mother to be raised by a shoe-maker. A painting of Louis XVI looking off the prison wall. A painting of Louis XVI walking up the steps of the scaffold, and two paintings of his execution, one before and the other after the head was severed from the body.</p>
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