Tea at Trianon: The Wonders of Essential Oils

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

Sunday, October 1, 2017

The Wonders of Essential Oils

From the Trianon Health and Beauty Blog:

Women are under more stress than ever before and stress causes early aging unless healthy measures are taken. My face creams are a natural way of restoring to the skin the vitamins drained out of it by the craziness of modern living. While the creams help, any health and beauty regimen should be accompanied by eating well, taking vitamins, exercise and drinking lots of water.

Although I have long used lavender essential oil as a sleep aid, I only recently discovered that it also has anti-aging properties. Lavender oil as well as the essential oils of frankincense, rose, orange blossom and rose geranium are used in my Trianon Bouquet Beauty Creams.(Read more.)