Lady Oscarthat is to say Oscar François de Jarjayes He moved with his long blond hair, the red uniform and the sword always ready to cut the air between The rooms and gardens of the Royal Palace of Versailles as well as on horseback on the streets of Paris. Between fantasy and reality, the popular manga has designed the glories of the Court of France that would soon go out under the merciless blows of the revolution and the guillotine. We have stumbled them on this path with a surprise end (psychedelic).
Versailles reopens the Queen’s private apartments
The train of the RER line which from Paris in half an hour reaches LIn Reggia di Versailles It has ceilings decorated with delicate roses on tones pink sugared almonds. The residence of the kings of France who celebrated 400 years, since 2023 has reopened the Private apartments by maria antonietta returning them to the public For dedicated visits, “an hour with Maria Antonietta” (only guided) that yes book from 27 June to 16 July. In here, everything was conceived according to the personal taste of the unfortunate queen adored by Lady Oscar. From silk walls dotted with pink flowers, To the desire to take refuge in the privacy of a safe treasure chest and far from the rigid rules and poisons of the court everything speaks of her.
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In 1774 it was herself who ordered a restyling made of details on the lilac and green to embellish The room called “Meridienne”which he enters the library and then in the golden roomsumptuous albeit small, entirely inspired by the glories of ancient Egypt with thirst, flowers and Arabesques.
But it is on the upper floor that memory runs to the secret loves and intrigues that Lady Oscar knew well. The “Fersen room” is a small and highly reserved space Where, confirming the chronicles, the queen met her beloved Conte. According to some correspondence belonging to the Swedish nobleman, «Josephine“, He received directions to” host him there, upstairs “. And you don’t need too much imagination to understand who belonged this code name.
The night in Versailles
The tour dedicated to Maria Antonietta also includes one Visit to the Petit Trianon: Here too the desire for a woman of Austrian origin accustomed to a spartan life was indulged.
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Together with the village of the queen, Hameau de la Reine, These are the places that more than others have made the background to the episodes dedicated to Private moments of the life of Maria Antoniettalived under the watchful eye of his faithful Lady Oscar that she would have chosen The equestrian academy. Today, it is also possible to live them at night with Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes. From 8 June to 21 September the fountains of the gardens are accessed of Colored water games and fireworks accompanied by baroque music to close a magical atmosphere.
Sleeping in Versailles (with vintage photos)
Not only that, in the luxurious salons Airelles château de Versailles, which is located within the estate, the Grand Contrôle allows, to those who stay in the structure, to organize Photo shooting while wearing eighteenth -century dresseswith corsets and accessories and the iconic neo under the lip.
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The cocktail and tea of Maria Antonietta
In front of the work Garnier, the Café de la Paix With its oak wooden furnishings with gold, cream and green tones embellished with details inspired by flowers and nature, it offers a unique atmosphere for a cocktail dedicated to Marie Antoinette inside her winter garden. Time and the city run out of its great windows overlooking the work Garnier, where, at the time, nobody would ever have imagined that The queen of France would have inspired a Bloody Mary.
In addition to vodka with tomato and lemon juice mixed with the Mary Mix, The essence of the eighteenth century can also be savored in Special blends tea and pastries decorated according to the refined taste that was used at court, as they imagined it at Jardin de Mademoiselleborn from the passion of two friends, “soul mates” who have created their line of you and infusions with small pastry for an all -real pampering.
It is instead in 1730 that Nicolas Stohler, Louis XV’s pastry chef, invented the famous Babà with rum, born from Stohrer, the oldest pastry shop in Parisin Rue Montorgueil, together with the famous Puits d’amor, the macarons and the Palmier. Around the counter that celebrates a lot of creativity to the sound of sugar, a triumph of heavenly and golden mirrors, frescoed ceilings and lacquered walls of “Botticellian” goddesses.
Between past and present: “The Revolution”
You can continue to move between imagination and reality in Paris Guided by Oscar François de Jarjayeseven where history has found its most dramatic conclusion. The Musée Carnavalet, The museum of the history of the city located in Marais, has dedicated entire rooms to the French Revolutioncollecting objects and images that certainly inspired the pen and drawings of Riyoko Ikeda, 53 years ago. DI enter the Louvre, however, esystem a path dedicated to the art of living at the Court of Francein addition to the most famous portrait of Maria Antonietta, But modernity has never stopped inspired by those images, that lesson.
In a strong time jump, but perhaps not entirely risky, there is one last stage, that of the gender identity raised in the story of Lady Oscar, through shades of shades. Al Philharmonie in Paris, until August 17th, You can see a collection of objects, music and costumes that have characterized another large revolution (and liberation) accompanied by disco music, fashion and culture of the 70s: the affirmation of the LGBTQ+world. There Show Disco, I’m coming out. I photograph that moment with some trait that still recalls other styles, other customs, not so distant, such as those of the opulent eighteenth -century court, but with psychedelic corsets.
Source: Vanity Fair
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