A Bit of Imperial China in Pre-Revolutionary France

Elena Maria Vidal introduces us to the above — Marie-Antoinette's Chinese Pavilion.
Labels: Architecture, Monarchism, The Eldest Daughter of the Church, The Middle Kingdom

"The superior man is catholic and no partizan. The mean man is a partizan and not catholic."
(君子周而不比、小人比而不周。) ─ Confucius, The Analects, 2.XIV, translation by James Legge.

Labels: Architecture, Monarchism, The Eldest Daughter of the Church, The Middle Kingdom
Omnes Sancti et Sanctæ Coreæ, orate pro nobis.
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