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A Scattering of Jades - art by Guillaume Sorel (2006)

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Guillaume Sorel

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Guillaume Sorel

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That old time religion -- Followers of Wakboth (the Devil, the Doom of the World) seek a return to the Great Darkness when Chaos reigned across Glorantha (Guillaume Sorel, Runequest supplement Les Dieux de Glorantha, Oriflam for Avalon Hill & Chaosium, 1987)

#Runequest #Guillaume Sorel #Glorantha #human sacrifice #Les Dieux de Glorantha #skull mountain #evil cleric #Wakboth #evil altar #statue #JDR #jeu de role #jeu de rôle #Oriflam #Avalon Hill #Chaosium

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Beauty and the Beast (Roses) by Guillaume Sorel, 2014

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Speaking of comics, one book I really like is this adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s cosmic horror story “Le Horla,” written and illustrated by French comic artist Guillaume Sorel. 

The original short story this comic is based off of is probably one of my favorites, and Guillaume Sorel’s comic is the probably the best adaptation out there. Sorel had an uphill battle to portray the invisible title creature in a visual medium, but I think he does an excellent job in bringing this 19th-century sleep paralysis demon to life.

The nameless human protagonist is also portrayed really well. I absolutely love the way this guy is drawn. Sorel really captures the fear and vulnerability he feels when confronted by this thing. 

The only downside is that the original comic is in French, and there doesn’t seem to be an official English translation. I actually own a copy of the comic book in French, and I have been contemplating posting my own attempt at an English translation, so let me know if this is something you’d be interested in seeing.

#guy de maupassant #le horla #the horla #guillaume sorel #comic book #good art #adaptation #cosmic horror #french literature #sleep paralysis demon

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Guillaume Sorel: Roxanna

#Guillaume Sorel #Pelisse #quest for the time bird #homage to regis loisel #Roxanna

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Robert E. Howard’s Sailor Steve Costigan

Art by...

1) Thomas Gianni

2) Guillaume Sorel

3) Gene Day

4) Blue Moon Cartoons

5) Walter Martin Baumhofer

6) Chris Schweizer

7) Andy Taylor

8) Mark Finn

9) Carmen Cerra

10) Michele D’Aloisio

#Pulp #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #Sailor Steve Costigan #Robert E Howard #REH #Art #Thomas Gianni #Gene Day #Adventure #Boxing #Sports #Sailors #Steve Costigan

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Guillaume Sorel

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Musical streams are back! We’ve taken 5 weeks off, but now we’re back! Last time we streamed for 39 weeks in on Kosmi, this time I’m streaming them directly in my europeanmusicals Discord server. This change in streaming platform is because Kosmi didn’t accept a lot of video types and so I couldn’t stream certain musicals, but I will be able to stream those musicals through Discord.

Streams take place on Saturdays at 9pm UK time (BST/GMT depending on daylight savings). Some may be postponed by a week if I’m away. Not all have English subtitles so check below. More musicals may be added. Any updates will be posted on Discord. We are watching musicals that we did not watch in the first 30 weeks. If there’s a musical missing you want to see, let me know, we may have already watched it but we’re okay with re-watching musicals. You can take a look at the last shedule to see if there’s anything you like and want to be able to see.

Week 30 : Les 3 Mousquetaires / The 3 Musketeers

2017.06.13 Original Paris (France) Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Olivier Dion (D’Artagnan), Damien Sargue (Aramis), Brahim Zaibat (Athos), David Ban (Porthos), Emji (Milady de Winter), Golan Yosef (Duc de Buckingham), Victoria Sio (La Reine)

Week 31 : The Phantom of the Opera

2006.04.30 Essen Production

German. No English subtitles.

Ethan Freeman (The Phantom), Anne Gorner (Chrisine Daaé), Nikolaj A. Brucker (Raoul de Chagny)

Week 32 : Autant en emporte le vent / Gone with the Wind

2003 Original Paris (France) Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Laura Presgurvic (Scarlett O'Hara), Vincent Niclo (Rhett Butler), Sophie Delmas (Belle Watling), Arié Itah (Gérald O'Hara), Sandra Léane (Mélanie Hamilton), Dominique Magloire (Mama), Cyril Niccolaï (Ashley Wilkes), Joël O'Cangha (Le chef des esclaves)

Week 33 : Der Eierwurf von Halle / The Egg Throw From Halle

2021.11.05 Original German Production Proshot

German. English subtitles.

Mark Seibert, Jan Bohermann, Sebastian Krumbiegel, Angelika Milster, Robin Reitsma, Carolin Worbs, Miguel Robitzky, Sebastian Hotz, Parshad Esmaeili

Week 34 : Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Ladies of Rochefort

2003 Paris (France) Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Frédérica Sorel (Delphine), Mélanie Cohl (Solange), Florent Neuray (Maxence), Jasmine Roy (Yvonne), Philippe Candelon (Simon Dame), David Bàn (Guillaume Lancien), Édouard Thiébaut (Andy Miller), Katy Varda (Josette), Nuno Resende (Étienne), Pierre Reggiani (Pépé), Michel Francini (Monsieur Tranchant), Sergio Diaz (Bill), Armelle Ferron (Judith), Ebony Harning (Esther) 

Week 35 : Jesus Christ Superstar

2012.04.01/2012.04.07 Vienna Concert Production

English

Drew Sarich (Jesus Christ), Mischa Mang (Judas Iscariot), Ana Milva Gomes (Mary Magdalene)

Week 36 : Don Juan(Félix Gray)

2003/2004 Original Montreal (Canada) Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Jean-François Breau (Don Juan), Marie-Ève Janvier (Maria), Mario Pelchat (Don Carlos), Philippe Berghella (Raphaël), Cindy Daniel (Elvira)

Week 37: Disney’s Der Glöckner von Notre Dame / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

1999.02.04 Original Berlin (Germany) Production

German. No English subtitles. Songs from the Disney musical but with some of the plot of the original book. The original stage version of what later played in La Jolla Playhouse.

Drew Sarich (Quasimodo), Ruby Rosales (Esmeralda u/s), Norbert Lamla (Frollo), André Bauer (Phoebus u/s), Chris Murray (Clopin)

Week 38 : Dracula: Entre l'amour et la mort / Dracula: Between love and death

2006 Original Quebec (Canada) Production Proshot

French-Canadian. English subtitles.

Bruno Pelletier (Dracula), Andrée Watters (Mina), Sylvain Cossette (Jonathan), Pierre Flynn (Abraham Van Helsing), Gabrielle Destroismaisons (Lucy)

Week 39 : I Am From Austria

2017 Vienna (Austria) Proshot

German . English subtitles.

Iréna Flury (Emma Carter), Lukas Perman (Josi Edler), Elisabeth Engstler (Romy Edler), Andreas Steppan (Wolfgang Edler), Martin Bermoser (Richard Rattinger), Dolores Schmidnger (Elfie Schratt), Matthias Trattner (Felix Moser), Fabio Diso (Pablo Garcia), Martin Berger (Rainer Berger)

Week 40 : Dracula: L'amour plus fort que la mort / Dracula: Love stronger than death

2011 Original Paris (France) Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Golan Yosef (Comte Dracula), Nathalie Fauquette (Mina Murray), Gregory Deck (Sorci), Lola Ces (Poison), Ginie Line (Satine), Julien Loko (Jonathan Harker), Anaïs Delva (Lucy Westenra), Aymeric Ribot (Dr Abraham Van Helsing), Florent Torres (L'Ange), Laurent Levy (Dr Seward)

Week 41 : Romeo et Juliette

2005 Vienna Production

German. English subtitles.

Week 42 : Joan of Arc / Жанна Д'Арк 

Russian Proshot?

Russian. English subtitles.

Week 43 : Luna

2017 German Proshot

German. English subtitles.

Cale Kalay (Ishtar), Rory Six (Alvar), Roberta Valentini (Berit), Katja Berg (Hilla), Ulrike Figgener (Nora), Vincent Bueno (Finn)

Week 44 : The Last Trail / The Last Test / Последние Испытанее 

2016.10.15 Russia Tour Proshot

Russian. English subtitles.

Evgeny Egorov (Raistlin Majere), Elena Minina (Crysania), Andrey Lobashov (Caramon Majere), Vera Zudina (Takhisis), Alexey Tolstorkorov (King-Priest), Irina Kruglova (Tika), Anton Kruglov (Dalamar)

Week 45 : Mozart L’Opéra Rock / Mozart the Rock Opera

2011 Paris Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

Mikelangelo Loconte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Florent Mothe (Antonio Salieri), Diane Dassigny (Constanze Weber), Melissa Mars (Aloysia Weber), Maeva Méline (Nannerl Mozart), Solal (Leopold Mozart), Yamin Dib (Count Rosenberg), Merwan Rim (Innkeeper/Clown), Ariane Pirie (Cäcilia Weber), Estelle Micheau (The Diva), Jocelyne Sand (Anna Maria Mozart), Mathias Jung (Collorego/The Stranger), Patrice Maktav (Lorenzo da Ponte), Jean-Michel Meunier (Fridolin Weber/Joseph II), Marjolaine Piémont (Josepha Weber), Laurie Peret (Sophie Weber), Nuno Resende (Gottlieb Stephanie)

Week 46 : Les Misérables

2013 Magdeburg (Germany) Production

German. No English subtitles.

Thomas Borchert (Jean Valjean), Markus Liske (Javert), Battina Monch (Fantine), Oliver Arno (Marius), Teresa Sedimair (Cosette), Christina Patten (Eponine), Marc Lamberty (Enjolras), Peter Wittig (Thénardier), Gabrielle Stoppel-Bachmann (Madame Thénardier), Sandra Pangl (Gavroche), Veronika Miller (Young Cosette), Pauline Annie Glotzbach (Young Eponine)

Week 47 : Robin des Bois / Robin Hood

2014 Original Paris (France) Production Proshot

French. English subtitles.

M. Pokora (Robin des Bois), Stéphanie Bédard (Marianne), Dumè (Shérif de Nottingham), Caroline Costa (Bédélia), Sacha Tran (Adrien), Nyco Lilliu (Frère Tuck), Marc Antoine (Petit Jean)

Week 48 : Starmania

1994 2nd Revival Paris (France) Proshot

English language version. English subtitles.

Luce Dufault (Marie-Jeanne), Michel Pascal (Zéro Janvier), Bruno Pelletier (Johnny Rockfort), Jasmine Roy (Sadia), Judith Bérard (Cristal), Frank Sherbourne (Ziggy), Patsy Gallant (Stella Spotlight)

Week 49 : Jesus Christ Superstar

2013 Bonn (Germany) Production

English.

Mark Seibert (Jesus Christ), David Jacobs (Judas Iscariot), Patricia Meeden (Mary Magdalene), Mark Weigel (Pontius Pilate/Annas), Alexey Smirnov (Caiaphas), Marc Lamberty (Simon Zealotes), Dirk Weiler (King Herod), Tim Ludwig (Peter)

Week 50 : Jekyll & Hyde

2016 Zwingenberg (Germany) Production Proshot

German. No English subtitiles.

Drew Sarich (Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde), Ann Mandrella (Lucy Harris), Jana Marie Gropp (Emma Carew), Bianca Spiegel (Nelly), Holger Ries (Gabriel John Utterson),Werner Pürling (Sir Danvers Carew), Deborah Feth (Lady Beaconsfield), Benjamin Schuster (Mr. Simon Stride), Sven Wagenhöfer (Bischof von Basingstoke), Heiko Ihrig (Lord Savage), Avelino Casado (General Lord Glossop), Manfred Troll (Sir Archibald Proops), Markus Wäsch (Poole), Klaus Müller-Blask (Bisset)

Week 51 : Les Misérables

1991-1992 Amsterdam (Netherlands) Production Proshot

Dutch. No English subtitles.

Henk Poort (Jean Valjean), Ernst Daniël Smid (Javert), Pia Douwes (Fantine), Marika Lansen (u/s Cosette), Danny de Munk (Marius), Vera Mann (Éponine), Uwe Kröger (Enjolras u/s), Filip Bolluyt (Thénardier u/s), Simone Kleinsma (Madame Thénardier), Maya Hakvoort, Peter de Smet

#european musicals #The Phantom of the Opera #phantom of the opera #jesus christ superstar #les mis #jekyll and hyde #mor #mozart l'opera rock #mozart l'opéra rock #musical theatre #musicaledit #masterlist

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Guillaume Sorel.

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Guillaume SOREL

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Guillaume Sorel

#Guillaume Sorel #illustrations #surreal #horror #dark #Nightmare

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4 French Royal Mistresses Who Made Their Mark on History

From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king.

— By Erin Blakemore | June 23, 2023

This painting of Louis XV and his last mistress Madame du Barry was finished almost a century after their deaths. Royal mistresses like du Barry had impressive power through their access to the king. PaintingBy Gyula Benczur Via Bridgeman Images

Who’s the most important woman in France? During the French monarchy, it may not have been the queen, but the king’s official mistress—the maîtresse-en-titre.

She often ruled both his heart and his political decisions. As a result, French royal mistresses reached heights of power unknown to most women of their day. Here are the stories of just four of the many mistresses who left their mark in history.

Why Were Mistresses So Powerful?

Many European royals had extramarital affairs, but in France, mistresses enjoyed both royal favor and official recognition. Many queens were foreign-born, and all royal marriages were carefully arranged alliances. This led to everything from distrust to downright animosity between kings and queens, and often kings sought affection and companionship outside royal marriages.

As historian Tracy Adams notes, women at the time were acknowledged as men’s intellectual equals, but couldn’t legally compete with kings for their thrones. Because of this inferiority, they made the best choice for political advisors, Adams says. Most French kings from Charles VI took counsel from their lovers.

French sculptor Jean Goujon made this sculpture of Diana the Huntress with Diane de Poitiers’ likeness. Photograph By Mark Fiennes/Bridgeman Images

Agnés Sorel (1422-1450)

Also known as the “lady of beauty,” Agnés Sorel is often considered the first officially recognized French royal mistress.

Born into minor nobility, she rose to lady-in-waiting to Marie d’Anjou, wife of Charles VII of France. Soon after moving into the queen’s household in 1444, Sorel began an affair with Charles, from whom she received gifts of jewels and fine clothing. Sorel and the king had three daughters who survived infancy; the king recognized all three and gave them dowries when they married.

Sorel is best known for her fashion sense—she was excoriated outside of court for her love of low-cut and even open-fronted dresses and is thought to have inspired at least one iconic “Nursing Madonna” painting—and possibly her untimely death.

A few years after her affair with Charles began, she developed a stomachache and died after great suffering. The cause of her death remained an mystery until 2005, when researchers found traces of mercury poisoning. That mercury might have been a treatment for roundworms, but others suggest she was assassinated, by political enemies or perhaps even Charles VII himself.

Agnès Sorel was interred in the Church of St. Ours, in Loches, France (seen here). Her heart was buried separately more than 200 miles away in the Benedictine Abbey of Jumièges. Photograph By Jean-Guillaume Goursat/Gamma-Rapho Via Getty Images

Diane de Poitiers (1499-1556)

de Poitiers was a young widow when she served in the court of King Francis I, impressing him with her savvy management of her late husband’s estate. Though Francis respected her, she made an even greater impression on his son, Henry. At seven years old, the prince was sent to live in Spain for more than four years as a result of his father’s loss at the Battle of Pavia. When Henry returned, de Poitiers, now in her thirties became the teenager’s lover.

Henry often wore Diane’s colors—black and white, representing both her widowhood and her namesake, the Roman moon goddess—and de Poitiers became his most trusted advisor and companion. Though banished briefly from court (accused of a plot to unseat King Francis), she returned to the court after Francis’s 1547 death.

This painting by Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard shows de Poitiers posing for sculptor Jean Goujon. Photograph Alexandre Evariste Fragonard, Via Fine Art Images/Bridgeman Images

Henry was named King Henry II, and though he had a long marriage to Catherine de’Medici that produced seven surviving children, his relationship with de Poitiers endured for decades. She arranged for the care of his children, looked after the crown jewels of France, and even wrote his letters, which she signed with the combined name “HenriDiane.”

In 1599, Henry was injured in a joust, again wearing black and white. As the king slowly died of sepsis, the queen forbade his mistress from visiting his bedside. After his death, de Poitiers lived in exile. She lived a comfortable life in her grand chateau until her death, possibly from poisoning from a gold concoction designed to maintain her youth.

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764)

One of the most loved and most powerful royal mistresses was Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour—often known as just “Madame de Pompadour.” She came from a family far removed from royal circles—her father was a government official who fled the country after a corruption scandal, leaving her with her now penniless mother. But after a fortune teller told her she would one day become mistress to a king, she was given a private education befitting the ultimate maîtresse thanks to a friend of her father’s, whom it is speculated was actually her biological father.

Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart meets Madame de Pompadour at Versailles in 1763. Painting By Vicente Garcia de Parades, Via Fine Art Images/Bridgeman Images

Known as “Reinette,” or “little queen,” she moved in the world of Paris salons, sharpening her conversational skills and gaining notice for her charm. She married Charles d’Étoilles, a financier, when she was 19. In 1744, she finally made her move, attracting Louis XV’s attention by promenading in a carriage near his hunting grounds. Intrigued and in want of a new mistress, he began meeting with her.

Soon, they took the affair public: At a lavish masked ball in the Hall of Mirrors, the king allowed himself to be seen unmasked, in intimate conversation with his new, still-married mistress. The king gave her the title of Marquise of Pompadour, dispatched her husband with a position as an ambassador at a far-off embassy, and gifted her a room with a secret staircase leading to his bedchamber and a variety of chateaus and royal gifts, including the building now known as the Petit Trianon.

Despite public condemnation of her influence, she encouraged the king’s excesses, promoting his support of the arts, staging private theatricals for his amusement, and even convincing him to support a variety of Enlightenment-era luminaries, including the authors of the first French encyclopedia. Her health was poor, and the king lovingly nursed her on her deathbed, where she died at just 43 years of age.

This bust of de Pompadour was completed in 1751 when she was thirty years old. It was likely meant for her residence château de Bellevue, which was finished the same year. Sculpture By Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Via The Met

Jeanne du Barry (1743-1793)

Louis XV’s next mistress would play a part in both his reign and the downfall of the French Empire. After Pompadour’s death, Louis fell in love with Jeanne Bécu, a prostitute turned high-society courtesan who seduced him with her beauty and her reputed sexual charms despite a 33-year age difference. Refusing to have an official mistress who was not an aristocrat, the king arranged for her to marry Count Guillaume du Barry, then moved her into Versailles.

Louis’s reputed excesses on behalf of his mistress shocked all of France. He gave Madame du Barry magnificent jewels and clothing and refused her nothing, even gifting her a Bengali slave, Zamor, who acted as her personal servant. He also gifted a diamond necklace so massive the country could not afford to pay for it.

News of the necklace and other extravagances continued to rile France even after Louis XV’s death, after which du Barry was banished from court.

Revolutionaries eventually accused Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, of purchasing the necklace from a corrupt cardinal. du Barry was also swept up in the nation’s deadly revolutionary fervor when Zamor, who had endured years of her exploitative treatment, denounced her to revolutionaries for supposedly financially aiding counter-revolutionaries. She was arrested during the Reign of Terror and beheaded in front of a sneering crowd in 1793.

This bust depicts Marie-Jeanne Bécu. During her reign as official royal mistress, many portraits of du Barry were undertaken by leading artists, including French sculptor Augustin Pajou. Sculpture By Augustin Pajou, Mfah

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