Tea at Trianon: Jenny Kiss'd Me

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Jenny Kiss'd Me

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,

Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief, who love to get

Sweets into your list, put that in!

Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,

Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,

Say I'm growing old, but add,

Jenny kiss'd me.

by Leigh Hunt

Ginny said...: Thank youuuuuuuu !!!!; June 2, 2007 at 2:53:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: I do so love the artwork you use Elena:).

I have found a montage of women in art and put it on our blog. I thought you may like to take a peek at it.
I like the way it shows how art has changed through the decades when painting women in particular.

I found it on YouTube and loved it. One can also see the 'impressionists' very clearly and the influence of Art Deco..but the cubist art....ICK! YUCK! LOL!

Yours in friendship,

Marie; June 3, 2007 at 1:41:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Thanks, Marie! That was a lovely montage!; June 3, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM EDT