There is a phrase that I do NOT like – “Mandela Effect.”
It’s beyond stupid but there is definitely a systematic scrubbing of history going on in “internet-land” Right NOW!
Things that I knew that I knew but are no longer available online include the chateau above and the book below.
Sometime late in 1664, the musketeer D’Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol. There he would be incarcerated in a cell next door to the Man with the Iron Mask…From a glittering zenith as the King’s first minister, builder of the breathtaking chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, collector of books, patron of the arts and lover of beautiful women, Foucquet had fallen like Icarus. Charged with embezzlement, he was convicted and sentenced to banishment until the King intervened to change his sentence to life imprisonment. But it is in his downfall and incarceration, which he bore with great fortitude, courage and humour, that Foucquet’s strength of character and grace emerge, as he somehow survives both solitary confinement and absence of books, pen and ink.
During research for Weave a Garland I was writing about the years 1622 to 1679 but researching before and after. Part of the latter years concerned Marie de Rohan’s downfall, The Two Civil Wars in France (The Fronde of the Princes…The Fronde of the People) and what happened to Marie and her family.
Her closest child, Charlotte, was murdered by poison. Two other daughters were Abbesses and her son – by her first husband – was the only one (so they say) to produce grandchildren.
By the 1660’s, Marie was in dire straights and found herself caught up in a fight between two wannbe’s – Fouquet and Colbert.
Fouquet is credited with building Vaux-le-Vicomte. A home that totally peed off Louis XIV because it was too magnificent. See book above.
But I KNEW that Marie had sided with Colbert and allied her grandson with Colbert’s daughter.
but…But…BUT wiki has scrubbed out all mention of Colbert having a daughter.
What? Am I going mad? Have I totally misremembered a memory?
Mandela Effect, my arse.
This is History being re-jiggled right before our eyes :o(
Charles Honoré d’Albert, duc de Luynes : Marie de Rohan’s grandson
Hidden History Research 