📝 Plot: This lush historical drama follows Marie‑Antoinette from her arranged marriage at 14 to Louis XVI through life at the opulent court of Versailles. As queen she faces royal duty, court etiquette, loneliness, extravagance, and the looming unrest that foreshadows revolution, with lavish visuals and modern sensibility.
#MarieAntoinette #HistoricalDrama #FrenchCinema #RoyalJourney #VersaillesLife #CourtIntrigue #18thCentury #RevolutionPrelude
🎬 Marie‑Antoinette (2006)
Subtitles available:
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#MarieAntoinette #HistoricalDrama #FrenchCinema #SofiaCoppola #18thCentury #VersaillesLife #RoyalJourney #CostumeFilm
I wrote about the V&A's exhibition on Marie Antoinette:
#earlymodern #history #18thcentury #materialculture
https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/queen-monster-icon-marie-antoinette-at-the-va/
OTD: William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1684-1764), John Ellis (1698-1791), and Edward Moore (1712-1757) born this day.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin?
Donnchadh Sneddon, SCOTTISH STUDIES 42/1, 2026
A copy of the poems of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (1724–1812) held in the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh contains what might be the only extant portrait of the bard himself
5/5
https://open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStudies/article/view/697
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #18thcentury #portrait #arthistory
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…
“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
4/5
https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry
“The question remains, whether Praise of Ben Dorain may be read in the 21st century as a poem not only of praise, but also of sorrow, resistance & anger, a permanent protest against the devastation some folk bring upon others”
Prof Alan Riach on Donnchadh Bàn
3/5
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #protest #resistance
“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”
—Meg Bateman on “Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain” for Irish Pages
2/5
https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=79cba1185463
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #naturewriting #naturepoetry
A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
Mheallanach lìontach,
Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
Air thalamh na Crìosdachd…
—“Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”, by Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #C18th – born #OTD, 20 March
A 🎂 🧵
1/5
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury
French Cinema & Subtitles
Dr Surekha Davies
Alexander Huber
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)