[23:04] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((i've check the notecard about my house, someone can explain me why me and my sister were going to die on 1793 and my fathers will keep alive until 1820!?))

[23:05] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((the revolution))

[23:05] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((oh yes... thank you robespierre!))

This was the conversation that merge while my cousin Jean and I were talking about the possible future of our family. I was reading the notecard when I found this: me and my sister were going to die on 1793, Versailles SL time.

[23:05] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((You probably will both have a date with madame guillotine))

I read it twice, and guess what I've found? A lot of the members of my family are going to die on the same year.

DEATH LIST OF 1793 (FOR THE CHIVERNY HOUSE)

Charlotte-Marie de Tancarville (1742-1793)

Jean-Jacques d'Amblise (1748 - 1793) Comte de Vareilles

Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny (1753 - 1793)

Marie-Thrse de Chiverny (1750 - 1793)

[23:07] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((I will make sure to wear black for the rest of my life after that))

We start to talk about it and we reached this conclusion:

[23:25] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((So I will leave France with my wife after the Bastille falls))

[23:26] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((I will urge you to leave but you agree with the revolution before it turns radical and by then it is too late))

[23:26] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((i'll stay on the side of the revolution because of my romantic idealism and i'll die))

[23:26] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((oui exactly))

[23:26] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((it is!))

[23:27] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((and when i finally see the danger i'll try to run with my sister and aunt, i'm still thinking why would they stay...))

[23:27] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((but we got on a jail, judged by the jacobines and get killed))

[23:27] Jean-Louis de Chiverny: ((maybe because they don't fear the danger))

[23:28] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((i guess that the three of us really has a trouble with it))

Later Jean would run away to Italy, and maybe, after the restoration, Jean came back to retrieve his property, and thanks to one hidden treasure chest on Plougastel (my wicked imagination) he will manage to live in there with his wife until the rest of their lifes.

[23:16] Marie-Elisabeth de Chiverny: ((well, at least i can say that ill live fast and die young))

Now I start to wonder, who else died on the years of the revolution? I just open one group, but how could those deaths happen, not only with the historichal characters, but with the fictionals?

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I hope I die of old age or broken heart or something. If not, I guess I will die defending the Tancarville estates from those damn revolutionaries!

I'm sorry aunt, but you're on the death list too. It seems that Tancarville will have one glorious martyr and defender...

As long as they allow me to die with my jewels and in the grand habit...

I'm guessing that part of the magic of SL Versailles is that it will never actually venture into the Revolution. I know that's certainly the case with the Duch de Coeur. If so, you and your family are safe as long as you live in the "present" and don't worry about the "future"


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It's an interesting concept to think about, those you play with today, the people your serve, your friends, your families. How much of them were gone. The Court gives us a view of our life now, living before the Revolution, while history lets us knows what happens afterwards.

that is indeed part of the concept...an isolated microcosm that was to be destroyed by the world outside and its historical reality which had been ignored by many courtiers for a long time.

system change is possible - even if its considered unthinkable by those individuals who are part of the said system.

It's so interesting, almost comical, to believe that after the regicide of the 1790s the French would restore the monarchial system not once or twice but FOUR times (five, if you include the return of Napoleon after the Bourbon Restoration, and it would've been a sixth time if a suitable candidate was found after the fall of the Second Empire).

We'll all die one day. Too bad your death will be horrible and cruel. Awwh. :D

Youre all being macabre... Could we please discuss something else?

exactly, because is rare one nice death

The revolution .... and all those useless death, I am glad I am not in the list ... as I died in 1815 as it seems the years 1815-1820 were sad for my family all my sisters and cousins died around that time.

My dear aunt the dowager marquise de Fiennes and my ever so absent parents died all three in 1794 victim of the scaffold though. I suppose the younger generation tried to convice them to run away to Switzerland or Italy ... but didn't succeed.

Luckily all this is still much in the future ....

I am quite proud of my death! My end is one of the things that attracted me to this role, as it illuatrates the incredible bonds of friendship.

The Princess de Lamballe is loyal and heroic. In 1791the Princess deLamballe goes toGreat Britianto appeal for help for the French royal family, thereshe writes her will, since she fears death upon returning to Paris. Nonetheless, she returns to incredibledangerout of loyalty to Marie Antoinette. On August 19, 1792, the Princess and the Marquise de Tourzel, governess to the royal children,are separated from the royal family and transferred to the La Force prison. On the 3rd ofSeptember, sheis brought before a hastily assembled tribunal which demands she "take an oath to love liberty and equality and to swear hatred to the King and the Queen and to the monarchy". She naturally refuses, upon which her trial is summarily ended with the words, "largissez madame" ("Take madame away"). Sheis thrown to a mob, who beats her to death with hammers and picks. Most reports agree she is raped and that her breastsare cut off, in addition to other bodily mutilations (which I will not mention, as they are beyond gruesome) The Princess' head is cut off and stuck on a pike and paraded beneath the window of Marie Antoinette, who is naturally devasted at the horrible death of her dear friend.

The Princess de Lamballe is often considered boring and dull andshe was eclipsed by the much more glamourous Duchess de Polignac at thecourt of Versailles. Yet when the time comes to show loyalty and friendship itisthe strong and steadfast Princess de Lamballe who remains by the side of her Queen, andultimately gives her life for her friend.

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."-John 15:13