Laffy Taffy

Silk brocade dress, c. 1780-1785

Lotus Vessel made of jade with a crouching toad. 17th/18th-century.

From Cora Ginsburg

Jan van Kessel the Elder (Flemish, 1626--1679)

Maria Theresa of Spain, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France (c. 1660) by Jean Nocret.

Collection: Private collection

(Musée de l'Armée)

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, CE00019

Baldassare Franceschini (Volterrano), The Chevalier de Lorraine, depicted as Ganymede, late 17th cent. 

Portrait of Louis XIII by Marie-Victoire Jaquotot.

Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Circle of Pierre Mignard.

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (1670-1736).

Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur, Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur, Ambassador From France to the Courts of Russia and Prussia, Wells And Lilly-Court-Street, Boston, 1825, p. 85. I find such comments on La Fayette always to be very interesting, because whenever La Fayette is discussed in an American context (in other words; most of the time), he always was THE Marquis. But back home in France, in a truely aristocratic society, he was one of many and did not even have the most exhaulted rank. You could even argue that La Fayette, to a degree, was self-made. Sure, he came from a rich and aristocratic family and married into another rich and aristocratic family and therefor had a very privileged starting point, but this alone did not bring him the prestige, fame, respect or recognition that he enjoyed towards the end of his life.

Château de Maintenon, Maintenon, Eure-et-Loir, France