Madame duBarry(1741-1793)
Illegitimate daughter of a cook she became the favorite mistress of Louis XV, who declared that she was the only woman who made him forget he was 70-something.
As a young girl she was put in a high class brothel where she was bewildered by exaggerated affections and mannerisms of her colleagues. She felt out [...]
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Mme. duBarry
Posted in anecdotes, tagged ancien regime, King's Mistress, Louis XV on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Place Seekers-2
Posted in anecdotes, tagged anecdotes, honours, Lord Melbourne on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In one letter home Lord Cornwallis answering a suggestion that he employ a friend wrote curtly,”Here my lord, we are in the habit of looking for the man for the place and not for the place for the man.”
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One of the biggest headaches of Lord Melbourne,(1779-1848) the Whig prime minister was the various requests made [...]
Sunset Boulevard-1950
Posted in entertainment, parody, tagged 100 Best Films, Bill Wilder, Holden, Swanson, von Stroheim on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Hollywood story
Billy Wilder, a great Hollywood director, decided to make a film about the thing he knew best – Hollywood. In Sunset Boulevard he made a film that echoes Hollywood obsession with its own past. Extreme vanity, madness, obsession and murder are all given space here in this tale of a faded silent film [...]
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