“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons. The video below just came up in my yt recommended feed. Aha, thunked I. I KNOW that name. Soissons. Let me set the scene for the scene above (?) Richelieu and Louis XIII are in a world of hurt. Louis’ younger brother, Gaston has gone rebel and his second […]
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Yeh. Yeh. I hear y’all shouting…GB’s talking about Brave New World! WRONG. Only an Obsessive, Compulsive Researcher of HISTORY (esp. 17th C history) knows about THIS book by Aldous. Grey Eminence It informed a Massive part of Marie’s story. And gave me the nickname that l’éminence grise gave to Richelieu. And just how much power […]
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When you research an Historical Novel you have to go backwards first to the previous generation and then forward, to the next generation, before you can possibly begin to understand the generation about whom you are writing. Margot always fascinated me. Although she had no role in the book. Marguerite of Valois I even bought […]
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A Did You Know? post. I call RUBBISH/FAKE/FONEY history – but what do I know ? ? ? TY, KB :o)
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‘I think I am destined to be the object of the folly of madmen‘ – Marie de Rohan 1600-1679 This is my FAVE quote by Marie. It comes from a letter that she wrote to one of her friends – about Cardinal Richelieu, who had executed one of her closest friends, imprisoned several more, led […]
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I’ve always loved the title of this poem :o) It’s about Swords and Sorcery and Carlos Magnus/Charles the Great/Charlemagne. So much to do, so little time – this came as a side-note to my recent research and I’ve yet to fully figure out why. Could it be the Canto below? ? ? Roland, who long […]
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I didn’t want to do this for Very Private Reasons but…I was told to just go with the flow and, maybe, bring solace to someone else! Every cell in me believes in “re-incarnation.” Not the way we’ve been MSMedia fed the “facts”… but from MY OWN PERSONAL Real, True Life Experience. ALL MY LIFE I’ve […]
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There is something rotten in the History of Italy. I first came across the image above a veeeeery long time ago when researching my novel. It’s the coat of arms of Hercule de Rohan-Montbazon. Hercule was the father of Marie de Rohan, the MC of Weave a Garland of my Vows. Check out – The […]
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Clueage! How does one kill a Vampyre? A Steak…ooops…Stake through the HEART. What was the One & Only part of Jehanne d’Arc that did NOT burn in the pyre? Answer below. In a trial lasting 21 February, 1431 to 29 May, Joan was subjected to rapid-fire questioning, often eight- to 11-hours daily. Joan acquitted herself with courage, answering all that was asked, […]
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Can I politely ask all Neo-Historians to STOP just taking a thousand years off any date they come across and promoting that as Real Historical Research? Contrary to the New Popular Belief – History did NOT start precisely on the year 0. We do have B.C. and A.D. What d’all do when you come across […]
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Unless y’all are False,Fake,Foney or In a DEEP Psychic Vampire Sleepy Sleep …..y’all’ll’ve SEEN Tartaria LOUD AS/OBVIOUS AS/IN PLAIN SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!? FFS. WAKE UP and See the SYMBOLS PLANTED EVERYWHERE. Puhleeaassssse!
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Hidden History Research 