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NANAKI
11-06-2006, 07:13 PM
Well in my AP EURO class we are having a salon (a gathering of intellectuals, rulers, artists, etc... discussng politics, government, military, life, anything really) well my role to play is King Louis XV, of France. I am so excited I have to dress up like that Time period the whole day because the salon is during the middle of the school day. It is going to be a very fun project to do. Hard part is finding the costume for the part of what he wore.

RMJ
11-06-2006, 07:19 PM
History sucks... It just repeats itself...

NANAKI
11-06-2006, 07:27 PM
History sucks... It just repeats itself...

That is why it is so important because we never pay attention to so we just keep making the same mistakes over and over again so we have to pay attention so we don't make those mistakes again.

aFrenchie
11-06-2006, 07:30 PM
That is why it is so important because we never pay attention to so we just keep making the same mistakes over and over again so we have to pay attention so we don't make those mistakes again.
Especially if kings of France had to come back with their costumes :p :D

mibir
11-06-2006, 08:18 PM
I'm an AP Euro as well, but to this point we haven't had to dress up like kings :rolleyes:. Then again, you seem to be a little bit further than us as we are only on Louis XIV so we shall see..

RMJ
11-06-2006, 08:41 PM
Especially if kings of France had to come back with their costumes :p :D

Kings of France are cool ! Or well... not so much the kings but their "homes" ! Versailles for example ! :eek:

Cooney
11-06-2006, 09:03 PM
Heh, yeah, pulling of a European monarch's costume is far from easy.

Here are a couple of reference pictures from our old friend Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Louis_XV%3B_Buste.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LouisXVFrance.jpg

RMJ
11-06-2006, 09:17 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LouisXVFrance.jpg
Cute stockings... Tho, I think Lili had cuter ones in concert. :blink:

NANAKI
11-07-2006, 02:09 AM
I'm an AP Euro as well, but to this point we haven't had to dress up like kings :rolleyes:. Then again, you seem to be a little bit further than us as we are only on Louis XIV so we shall see..

we are starting the enlightenment period now so yeah we are just a little ahead

Kings of France are cool ! Or well... not so much the kings but their "homes" ! Versailles for example ! :eek:

You have to remember Versailles was built in order to distract the nobels because they were interfering with the absolutism of the monarchy

Heh, yeah, pulling of a European monarch's costume is far from easy.

Here are a couple of reference pictures from our old friend Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Louis_XV%3B_Buste.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LouisXVFrance.jpg

I am actually going off the second one I have decide that already so i am probably going to call up so costume shops this weekend to see what they got. Nothing like party city or anything like that this costumes are expensive and well made for all year round. I am not going to wear tights to school with a skirt shirt thing i am sorry that would just be to wierd.

RadioactiveMan
11-07-2006, 03:27 AM
Kings of France are cool ! Or well... not so much the kings but their "homes" ! Versailles for example ! :eek:

Pssh! Versailles is for chumps. A castle should be built like a fortress, not some namby-pamby palace.

http://www.busybus.co.uk/images/conwy/conwy2.jpg

nurvonic
11-07-2006, 03:37 AM
Cute stockings... Tho, I think Lili had cuter ones in concert. :blink:

oh i know! her thighs were killin me in concert

aFrenchie
11-07-2006, 07:13 AM
Kings of France are cool ! Or well... not so much the kings but their "homes" ! Versailles for example ! :eek:
I prefer Chambord :D.
And those kings were like crazy. It took 1800 people and some decades to build Chambord (around 1519-1547) and François 1er lived in it only 7 weeks! It was only to impress his rival, Charles Quint! :D
And if you ever think that its front looks a bit "poor" (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/France_Loir-et-Cher_Chambord_Chateau_03.jpg/800px-France_Loir-et-Cher_Chambord_Chateau_03.jpg) :blink: :blink: , check out an aerial view from the rear (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Chateau_Chambord.jpg) then :eek:

Chambord at Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord)

rcs
11-07-2006, 07:51 AM
oh i know! her thighs were killin me in concert

Yeah, thighs. :wub:

RMJ
11-07-2006, 09:40 AM
I prefer Chambord :D.
And those kings were like crazy. It took 1800 people and some decades to build Chambord (around 1519-1547) and François 1er lived in it only 7 weeks! It was only to impress his rival, Charles Quint! :D
And if you ever think that its front looks a bit "poor" (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/France_Loir-et-Cher_Chambord_Chateau_03.jpg/800px-France_Loir-et-Cher_Chambord_Chateau_03.jpg) :blink: :blink: , check out an aerial view from the rear (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Chateau_Chambord.jpg) then :eek:

Chambord at Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord)
Oooh... That's a neat place !

As is the whole Val de Loire really. :) I'd love to stop by someday. There's like shit load of those châteaux ! :blink:

aFrenchie
11-07-2006, 10:25 AM
Oooh... That's a neat place !
Ok, I'll invite you (and Alizée to sing in the park of course) as soon as I've paid the whole bill (it takes time) :D.

Amelie
11-07-2006, 10:56 AM
wow, how interesting...(sorry for off topic, but i remember, that when i was small, i had to act pine :D . but the most interesting thing is that in that spectacle pines roles was the most difficult and one the most important roles)

Twitch
11-07-2006, 02:34 PM
Chambord is great, it is so large that they have little fire places where the servants could rewarm the food because it was so far from the kitchens to the living quarters of the royalty. And technically these are Château's when castle design evolved from merely a military fortress into the lavish residents of the Royalty and upper classes. And on a side note sometimes Versailles make me wish France had reinstated a constitutional monarchy during the Restauration so that you could still see the great ceremonies that they had there, but knowing that it wouldn't be as accessible to the public if it was still used by a monarch quickly dismisses those thoughts.

RMJ
11-07-2006, 02:52 PM
Ok, I'll invite you (and Alizée to sing in the park of course) as soon as I've paid the whole bill (it takes time) :D.

Sure, I'll bring Lili with me. :p

aFrenchie
11-07-2006, 04:02 PM
Sure, I'll bring Lili with me. :p
So you know her too? :cool: Send her the invitation yourself then :D

RMJ
11-07-2006, 05:05 PM
So you know her too? :cool: Send her the invitation yourself then :D

Send ? Why not just tell her to come ? :blink:

aFrenchie
11-07-2006, 07:05 PM
So you know her too? :cool: Send her the invitation yourself then :DSend ? Why not just tell her to come ? :blink:
Ah I forgot you're gonna be in Paris soon. Sorry ;)

HibyPrime
11-07-2006, 09:41 PM
I tried reading this thread in reverse (bottom to top) just for kicks, and let me tell you, nothing makes sence until you get to the first post.

RMJ
11-07-2006, 11:43 PM
Ah I forgot you're gonna be in Paris soon. Sorry ;)
Oh no, you misunderstood me. She's not coming with me to Paris. :)

But I'll tell before I leave. :wink:




I tried reading this thread in reverse (bottom to top) just for kicks, and let me tell you, nothing makes sence until you get to the first post.
That you should assume by default. :)

The rule is: the longer the thread is, the less it makes sense.

Sometimes they stops making sense even before the first post.

NANAKI
11-08-2006, 12:04 AM
Chambord is great, it is so large that they have little fire places where the servants could rewarm the food because it was so far from the kitchens to the living quarters of the royalty. And technically these are Château's when castle design evolved from merely a military fortress into the lavish residents of the Royalty and upper classes. And on a side note sometimes Versailles make me wish France had reinstated a constitutional monarchy during the Restauration so that you could still see the great ceremonies that they had there, but knowing that it wouldn't be as accessible to the public if it was still used by a monarch quickly dismisses those thoughts.

actually Versailles before the Revolution it was very accesible to the public. They went there and petitioned to the king about things anyone could go there during certain hours but only the nobility could live there a long with the royal family of course.

aFrenchie
11-08-2006, 08:44 AM
Oh no, you misunderstood me. She's not coming with me to Paris. :)

But I'll tell before I leave. :wink:
Reinsure me, she will come to Chambord when I have the keys, right? :cool:

aFrenchie
11-08-2006, 08:59 AM
Sorry for your thread, Nanaki :o . Just a suggestion, find an Alizée outfit somewhere, go to your class wearing it and just tell your professor that you only mixed eras up a bit but it's still French :)

NANAKI
11-08-2006, 07:18 PM
That would be a little wird coming to school dressed like a girl even if it is like Alizée, and she wouldn't understand this is like a college class you get no breaks.