Mécène le Strange

Lover of stately homes, transporting prose, Dickens, Dumas, Austen; old, beautiful things, French and British things

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

My #SundayThoughts are about liking this.
https://t.co/OHHSrpFsk0

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Hope was a slippery thing. Sometimes in the dead of night Porphyria feared that all her youthful expectations had turned to ashes, that she would spend her best years reading wearisome books to wearisome old women, serving wearisome people or tending their wearisome children.

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Hope was a slippery thing. Sometimes in the dead of night Porphyria feared that all her youthful expectations had turned to ashes, that she would spend her best years reading wearisome books to wearisome old women, serving wearisome people or tending their wearisome children.

[Lauren Deutsch @LaurenCDeutsch]

Today's #ootd is an 1883 Paisley Shawl Teagown from Edinburgh. The back is reminiscent of the Robe a la Francaise from 100 years earlier. @AbdnArtMuseums #FashionHistory

[René Fris @renefris]

If you don’t leap, you’ll never know what it’s like to fly. #MondayMorning #MondayMotivation https://t.co/1xbczZ2s9y

[EUROPEAN ART @EuropeanArtHIST]

Flaming June is a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. It is widely considered to be #Leighton's magnum opus, showing his classicist nature. (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico)

[Haworth and the Brontës @HaworthBrontes]

We've been treated to some lovely sunrises and sunsets recently.

Return to the overcast today with a cheeky, impatient toddler of wind blowing here and there !

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

Here's to a great #MondayMorning, and if the real world gets to be too much, slip away to https://t.co/Ad6hWj01xC to enter a world of mystery and haunting Regency elegance. You won't be sorry.

There are now, for a limited time, four free chapters of the Night Whisperer to read!

[WILLIAM MORRISON @wmorrisonjr]

Cathedral of the Assumption, Bangkok, Thailand, finished 1821, restored after the bombings of World War II (⁦@NetTravelWorld⁩) #Romanesque #Architecture

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

My #SundayThoughts are dark and dreamy, like my soul. I intend to enter a world of elegant mystery where nothing is as it seems by visiting https://t.co/Ad6hWj01xC

For a short time only, you can read four free chapters of The Night Whisperer by Ornella Grey.

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

My #SundayThoughts are dark and dreamy, like my soul. I intend to enter a world of elegant mystery where nothing is as it seems by visiting https://t.co/Ad6hWj01xC

For a short time only, you can read four free chapters of The Night Whisperer by Ornella Grey.

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Diary 38.5: “Good God. Do you need a doctor?”
“I don’t think so. They’re not very deep.”
“This one barely missed your eye. What did this?”
“I believe it was your owl,” he said. “I don’t think it likes me.”
“It was in the crypt? But how? There are no windows there."

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Diary 39.3: “What were you doing in the crypts when it attacked you?” I asked J.
His eyes mocked me. “I was examining the tombs.”
“Which ones?”
“Several of them.”
“Cave ne exeat?”
He looked away without a word.
My anger rose. “Was that where the owl attacked you?”
J shrugged.

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

Wow, our planet really is amazing. Looking out of the window now, if I didn't have my photos I almost wouldn't believe that I saw these colours half an hour ago. #WednesdayWisdom #WednesdayMotivation #Glastonbury #somerset

[The Tudor Age @TudorAge1973]

#internationalwomensday #AnneBoleyn #ElizabethofYork #MaryQueenofScots #MargaretBeaufort #Tudors #Stuarts #Women #History

All pictures © The Tudor Age
At National Portrait Gallery, London, Hampton Court Palace & National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[K @Because__I_Can]

The National Museum of History,
London, United Kingdom.

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Lovely.
https://t.co/ApE25kfyyk

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Diary 38.3: Later in the drawing room, I found J sitting in an armchair staring at the fire.

“Did you find the gold then?” I asked.

He raised an eyebrow humorlessly. “No, but I did see a fox in your garden,” he said. “And something attacked me in the cellar.”

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

My #SaturdayThoughts are dark and romantic. If you want to explore a world of elegant mystery where nothing is quite as it seems, visit https://t.co/Ad6hWj01xC

[Mécène le Strange @Mecenelestrange]

This portal leads to a secret garden of mystery and adventure.

Visit https://t.co/Ad6hWj01xC and enter a world of elegant menace where nothing is what it seems to be. #SaturdayMorning

[Ornella Grey @OrnellaGrey]

Diary 31: I'm going to stay at the Ritz in Paris for a few days. J is going to meet me there. I've felt a presence in this house for a long time. At first, it was almost comforting. Now it makes me uneasy.

The book isn't finished, but it will have to wait. My sanity is at risk.