Archives de Tag: France
The ambitious Lorraine family
Back in January 2013, when I started writing this blog, everybody in Great Britain called Marie of Lorraine Mary of Guise, or in France, Marie de Guise. However, I always felt (and have good arguments for it) that the name Mary of Guise was anachronistic. Therefore, I kept repeating to whoever was listening or reading […]
Colloque Marie de Lorraine, 2nde partie
Été 1538. Marie de Lorraine, veuve du duc de Longueville, arrive en Écosse comme seconde femme de Jacques V Stuart. Leur mariage spectaculaire est célébré dans le bourg royal de Saint Andrews. De quelle famille vient la jeune femme, et qui sont ses modèles ? Dans quels lieux vit-elle en Écosse ? Quel est son […]
Madeleine of Valois, king James V’s first wife
In the first half of the XVIth century, France and Scotland were not only bound by the Auld Alliance, a treaty of mutual military assistance between the two kingdoms dating from the end of the XIIIth century. Many Scots were also permanently living on the Continent: Scottish merchants living in the cities of Rouen and […]
June 1538: Marie de Guise discovers Scottish fashion
After an exhausting sea crossing from France, Marie arrived on a sandy beach on the Scottish East coast near Crail. She was accompanied by the duke of Guise her father, her sister Louise, her ladies in waiting and many Frenchmen. All disembarked the galleys and moved towards castle Balcomie, probably passing fishermen, villagers and townspeople. […]
« Les Tudors » à Paris : entre réalité historique et posterité
Le musée du Luxembourg à Paris accueille depuis le 18 mars une des familles les plus rocambolesques de l’histoire de l’Angleterre: les Tudors. Comparé aux leurs, les scandales de la famille Windsor font pâle figure. Le danger était alors de succomber à la tentation de ce monde semi-historique peuplé d’Elizabeth la Reine Vierge, de Henri […]
