French aristocrat

Found this wonderful drawing of over a dozen different 18th century hairstyles. It includes many that might have been warn by Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. You must click to see the up-do with t…

10 surprising facts about the French hero of the American Revolution.

Representing a persistence of 1880s and 1890s revivals of the eighteenth-century in its incorporation of finely embroidered silk velvet and a lace jabot, this riding coat is specifically derived from menswear

Elegant Aristocrat Gothic fashion is a favourite of mine...all the more so on a gentleman!

François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, was a French politician and diplomat during the Ancien Régime and French Revolution.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, naturaliste et botaniste à la campagne. Montbard. Portrait, biographie, vie et oeuvre. Avant la publication de la correspondance inédite du célèbre Buffon, le grand public n’avait pas connaissance de son amour immodéré pour la campagne et de la joie qu’il éprouvait à y travailler, s’imposant durant quarante ans une règle sévère, se levant à cinq heures du matin et refusant de recevoir quiconque, quel que fût son rang, avant deux heures…

Instead of an iron fist, King Louis XIV ruled with his dancing shoes.In 1692, a young French aristocrat visiting King Louis XIV’s royal court was asked if he knew how to dance. The cocky aristocrat, who went by Montbron, replied with characteristic overconfidence, gloating enough to attract the attention of other courtiers. Rookie mistake. It wasn’t long before the room of nobles asked him to prove it. It was a truth universally acknowledged that a man pining for a pol...