Bagnères de Bigorre – Le Casino (Henri de Montaut)
Bagnères de Bigorre – Le Casino, Henri de Montaut [Public domain] This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse as part of a cooperation project with Wikimédia France.
The dresses in this image are obviously not Regency gowns, however, I think this gives a good representation of the busyness of the ball which Wes is attending.
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“That young woman across the way. The one next to the silver-haired matron with the blue fan. She’s pretty, is she not?”
“Do not attempt to change the subject,” Langley grumbled but then added, “Yes, I do believe she is. I’ve never seen her before.”
“You should seek an introduction. I had thought to, but I have duties to perform tonight before I am allowed to sneak back to my bed. My blasted head keeps hurting.”
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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6 thoughts on “Bagnères de Bigorre – Le Casino (Henri de Montaut)”
Moving to a fast dance must have been torture.
All those people, even without dancing, would be torture for me 🙂
What a lovely image. I think I would have to be dancing with the gentleman of my dreams in order to tune out the normal claustrophobia I would experience in that environment. And waltzing with someone you found objectionable, or even a total stranger would be really very stressful. I could not enlarge that image enough to really interpret the expression of the lady facing us, but I don’t think she was frowning….she may have plastered a bland smile or a suppressed joyous smile on her face (that last one like Grace trying to fool Felicity and their mother.)
I looked up Henri de Montaut and Bagneres de Bigorre, the little spa town in the Pyrenees and both were very interesting. Thanks for another interesting little spark to send me down the rabbit hole today. The illustration reminds me of later Victorian (if I remember correctly) painting that I just think is swoony and when I find it I’ll send you a link.
I’d want to be hidden away in a corner in this room. LOL I’m not a fan of crowds. I’m pleased that I am not the only one that goes down research rabbit trails when I see or hear things of interest. 🙂
That certainly looks like a waltz. I imagine if they dancing the waltz… Wes will not want Mary dancing THAT with anyone but him. I guess we’ll see. Lovely picture choice. I went online so I could enlarge it and see their expressions more closely.
I’m pretty sure Wes doesn’t want Mary dancing with anyone else but him no matter what dance it is. LOL But, yes, a close dance like this would have him pushing fellas away I would imagine or sulking in a corner.
Moving to a fast dance must have been torture.
All those people, even without dancing, would be torture for me 🙂
What a lovely image. I think I would have to be dancing with the gentleman of my dreams in order to tune out the normal claustrophobia I would experience in that environment. And waltzing with someone you found objectionable, or even a total stranger would be really very stressful. I could not enlarge that image enough to really interpret the expression of the lady facing us, but I don’t think she was frowning….she may have plastered a bland smile or a suppressed joyous smile on her face (that last one like Grace trying to fool Felicity and their mother.)
I looked up Henri de Montaut and Bagneres de Bigorre, the little spa town in the Pyrenees and both were very interesting. Thanks for another interesting little spark to send me down the rabbit hole today. The illustration reminds me of later Victorian (if I remember correctly) painting that I just think is swoony and when I find it I’ll send you a link.
I’d want to be hidden away in a corner in this room. LOL I’m not a fan of crowds. I’m pleased that I am not the only one that goes down research rabbit trails when I see or hear things of interest. 🙂
That certainly looks like a waltz. I imagine if they dancing the waltz… Wes will not want Mary dancing THAT with anyone but him. I guess we’ll see. Lovely picture choice. I went online so I could enlarge it and see their expressions more closely.
I’m pretty sure Wes doesn’t want Mary dancing with anyone else but him no matter what dance it is. LOL But, yes, a close dance like this would have him pushing fellas away I would imagine or sulking in a corner.