These are earrings showing Louis XVI’s head getting chopped off. In the years following the end of the Reign of Terror macabre fashion like this was popular, along with wearing shirts resembling the chemises obligatory for those being sent to the guillotine and haircuts in the same manner as those given to people right before they were beheaded.
LITTLE COOKIES!
OH MY GOODNESS
Art Nouveau Villa Ruggeri in Pesaro. Italy
Sommarnöje (Anders Zorn, 1886)
(Summer pleasure)
—Marie Antoinette (2006)
Just so everyone is clear, the handsome Black man tutoring Marie Antoinette is Joseph Boulogne, classical musician extraordinaire whose work influenced Mozart’s. This has been your Western music history tidbit of the day. Adieu!
*just leaves this here*
Bangura’s reaction to Norrköping‘s captain’s embarassing attempt at getting a foul called
I feel like I should save all of these as reaction gifs.
baby meeting cat for the first time
Twenty times he had been tempted to throw himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and to devour him, that is to say, arrest him.
victor hugo pulling the fastest NO HOMO i have ever seen (via fungii)
if you ever feel socially awkward at least you haven’t ever made every noble person in your country watch you shave your legs daily
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 