COMPLETE: The English Restoration and Louis IV by Osmund Airy - jo

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pnagami wrote: June 25th, 2018, 8:46 am Hi Barbara,

Section 20 is up:

18:35

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/englishrestorationandlouisxiv_20_airy_128kb.mp3

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PL OK. Some impressive reading of place names! Though Dutch and Flemish are supposed to be so close to English, the pronunciation always takes me by surprise.

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Thanks, Barbara!
It seemed incredible to me too.
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Actually, I think I was pronouncing Flemish words with a Dutch accent.
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pnagami wrote: June 26th, 2018, 4:55 am Actually, I think I was pronouncing Flemish words with a Dutch accent.
ha ha.

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Section 21 is PL OK.

Wars and rumours of wars...

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Thank you, Barbara!

You have to isolate your enemy diplomatically before you attack, I guess.

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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

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pnagami wrote: July 2nd, 2018, 8:53 am Hi Barbara,

Section 22 is up:

13:45

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/englishrestorationandlouisxiv_22_airy_128kb.mp3

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PL OK again, Pam.

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Thank you, Barbara!

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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

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pnagami wrote: July 5th, 2018, 7:54 am Hi Barbara,

Section 23 is up:

10:02

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/englishrestorationandlouisxiv_23_airy_128kb.mp3

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PL OK. And is this Britain's future king entering the scene?

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Absolutely! And thanks!

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Hi Barbara,

Section 24 is up:

17:18

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/englishrestorationandlouisxiv_24_airy_128kb.mp3

A nice colored map of Louis's invasion route is found opposite page 165. This is Holland's "Rampjaar" or disaster year.

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Pam
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pnagami wrote: July 8th, 2018, 7:09 am Hi Barbara,

Section 24 is up:

17:18

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/englishrestorationandlouisxiv_24_airy_128kb.mp3

A nice colored map of Louis's invasion route is found opposite page 165. This is Holland's "Rampjaar" or disaster year.

My best,

Pam
Thanks, Pam. More heroic pronouncing. PL OK. I wondered about the "merchant aristocracy" who had been so brilliantly portrayed by artists and how their overthrow and all these goings-on affected the artists. Well, here's what Wikipedia says happened to Vermeer:

...during the ruinous war with France he not only was unable to sell any of his art but also, to his great detriment, was left sitting with the paintings of other masters that he was dealing in. As a result and owing to the great burden of his children having no means of his own, he lapsed into such decay and decadence, which he had so taken to heart that, as if he had fallen into a frenzy, in a day and a half he went from being healthy to being dead.


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Thank you, Barbara! The prep was onerous!

That's sad about Vermeer. I knew he died young, but I didn't know why.

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