Tea at Trianon: The Knights of Heliopolis

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

Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Knights of Heliopolis

A graphic novel about Louis XVII. I have not read it so am not recommending it. But it may be of interest to some. From Comic-Watch:

The 18th century. In a monastery in the North of Spain hides the sacred temple of the Knights of Heliopolis: an assembly of immortal alchemists cut off from the world. As disciple Seventeen prepares to complete his training and integrate order, his master Fulcanelli reveals to the other knights the terrible secret of his origins – Seventeen is actually the hidden son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette! Will the young heir claim the throne or remain in the shadows, faithful to the millennial precepts of Alchemy? (Read more.)

More HERE.

May said...: "Knights", secret temples, hidden knowledge...it all sounds vaguely Masonic.; September 24, 2020 at 1:36:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: No doubt about it....; September 24, 2020 at 2:17:00 PM EDT
May said...: Curious they decided to associate Louis XVII with all of this... but I've noted a trend to try to connect the Church or Catholic figures of the past with the esoteric / occult. For instance, the "Spanish monastery" in this case.; September 24, 2020 at 10:48:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, I have noticed that as well.; September 24, 2020 at 11:16:00 PM EDT