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✍️Free range historian and author. PhD in New Testament studies, now lives in the 17th century. 👜Loves notebooks and handbags.📒 Unpaid Carer.🌺 Agent: Andrew Lownie.
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🐕🐕 Two of Louis XIV's hunting dogs wish you a happy weekend 🍊

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🌤️Claude de Vin des Oeillets by Pierre Mignard. Claude was one of the minor mistresses of Louis XIV.

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😉My Photos just reminded me of this article I wrote in 2018 - so long ago ! www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

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😉 Easter 1675, Mme de Montespan leaves Versailles. Under pressure from the clergy, she and Louis have separated, but it is only temporary and they will resume their relationship in a short while.

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👛Maundy Thursday 1540 - a short extract from my book, Katherine Howard 'Queen Katherine sent a servant to the king’s privy chamber. He was instructed to meet a gentleman and escort him back to the queen. This, then, is how the relationship between Katherine Howard and Thomas Culpeper recommenced.'

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🍾First Monday in April 1625 - Happy d'Artagnan Day !🧡

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💒3 April 1659. The church of Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris, where Charles d'Artagnan married Charlotte-Anne de Chanlecy, Dame de Sainte-Croix on this day in 1659.

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🩰Anne of Austria dances with the duke of Buckingham by Maurice Leloir

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👑 10 March 1661. Louis XIV takes absolute power. www.instagram.com/p/DHBCRabIb8...

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✍️D'Artagnan's signature - Charles de Castetmore dartaignan

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🎭17 February 1673. The death of Molière, who dies at Paris having taken ill on stage - ironically, while performing his play, Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid). He had been suffering from tuberculosis for some years.

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🪓12 February 1542. Katherine Howard is told to prepare for death, for she is to be executed the next day - but does she really ask for the block to be brought to her room ? A short extract from my book, Katherine Howard (2016) www.instagram.com/p/DF96w8HI1Y...

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✍️My new blog post - an extract from my biography, Katherine Howard, about the 'Master Culpeper' letter dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2025/02/kath...

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⛵️The beautiful and tranquil Thames at Zion House. It was here, today in 1542, that Katherine Howard was forced into the barge that would carry her to the Tower of London. The tragic story of her life had entered its final chapter.

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🍰On the anniversary of Thomas More's birth, how would Henry VIII have fared had he lived on the island of Utopia ? dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2013/03/marr...

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👶27 January 1615. Baptism of Nicolas Foucquet at Saint-Jean-en-Grève, Paris.

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20 January 1666. Death of Anne of Austria 'Little by little nature was seen to perish within her, her forces to diminish, her life to end, and her eyes to close forever on the things of life.' (Mme de Motteville).

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Philippe duc d'Orlèans as John the Baptist dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-po...

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🏰 16 January 1665. D'Artagnan finally reaches Pignerol, where he hands his prisoner, Nicolas Foucquet, into the care of Saint-Mars. D'Artagnan stays on for a few days to ensure that Foucquet is lodged in accordance with his aristocratic status. dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/02/dart...

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The mysterious Milady dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-...

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❄ Having had a few days off, I'm looking forward to a Milady de Wintery start to the New Year !

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⛓️ Find out more about d'Artagnan's role as a gaoler here... dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/02/dart...

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 24 December The breakfast at Bastion Saint-Gervais Image: Denis Gordeev

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🚗22 December 1664 (a bit late, sorry !), d'Artagnan, at the head of 100 Musketeers, escorts Nicolas Foucquet to Pignerol, where he will spend the rest of his life. The journey will take three weeks. D'Artagnan had been offered the post of gaoler, but he turned it down.

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 23 December Madame de Chevreuse Book illustration from Vingt and après

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 22 December Milady cheval - riding costume for Milady designed for the stage by Jules Muelle

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📖Speaking of the real Musketeers, do you know why Dumas made Aramis a man of the church... (This article has been previously published, but I've changed the title better to reflect its subject) dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-...

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🕍How did the real Athos die, and what can an entry in a mortuary register tell us about him ? My new article dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 21 December Pre-aux-Clercs, a popular spot for duelling. It was in this area that the real Athos was killed on this day in 1643. (Map: Truschet and Hoyau)

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 20 December The château d'Espalungue, home of the real Aramis

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 19 December Porthos asks his mistress, Mme Coquenard, to help kit him out for the coming war Image : J.A. Beaucé, Pouget

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 18 December The Musketeers enjoy a quiet night out Image: Leonid Nepomnyashchii

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🎄Musketeers Advent Calendar - 17 December Porthos and Aramis play tennis Image: Maurice Leloir

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