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Jul. 10th, 2007 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusAnother long one on my other site, this one a summary of homosexuality in England leading up to 1763 (when it took over Canada).
Saturday and Sunday were marvellous days. Saturday night was the drag show![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
montrealais organized, and it was fantastic.
Sunday afternoon, I went up to the provincial archives, housed in the palace of the second-to-last intendant of New France, Gilles Hocquart. It's one of the most astonishing buildings I've ever been in -- a Neo-classical-meets-Rococo exterior, an inside filled with sweeping staircases and polished wood floors.
The centre, though, was startling -- an enormous cut-out section with modern elevators, class walkways, electric glass doors, and giant allegorical stone statues of the seasons. Everything was spotless and gleaming white, and just for that added Gattaca feeling, all the archivists (not one of them over 30, contrary to stereotype) wore gleaming lab coats with pale blue scrubs.
I felt like I was in the home of Lex Luthor, or a James Bond villain, and that there missiles underneath the archives waiting to blow up the moon or something.
At the top of the mansion, a gorgeous 20-something boy retrieved the subpoenas from 1840 I'd been looking for for my research for my other site.
After that, I went to a marvellous meal withem_fish to Kilo, and we had fun just hanging out and talking ^_^
Edit: I split my massive entry up -- it's getting too long, and releasing it in chunks will give me more time to research. It also means I can flesh out some parts more, that I deal with too lightly.
Edit 2: I edited the first chunk a little, and added a map stolen from Wikipedia -- it was public domain anyway ^_^
And in the "things we learn from Wikipedia" category, Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles, is a direct descendent of one of William of Orange's male lovers, Arnald van Keppel.
Saturday and Sunday were marvellous days. Saturday night was the drag show
montrealais organized, and it was fantastic.Sunday afternoon, I went up to the provincial archives, housed in the palace of the second-to-last intendant of New France, Gilles Hocquart. It's one of the most astonishing buildings I've ever been in -- a Neo-classical-meets-Rococo exterior, an inside filled with sweeping staircases and polished wood floors.
The centre, though, was startling -- an enormous cut-out section with modern elevators, class walkways, electric glass doors, and giant allegorical stone statues of the seasons. Everything was spotless and gleaming white, and just for that added Gattaca feeling, all the archivists (not one of them over 30, contrary to stereotype) wore gleaming lab coats with pale blue scrubs.
I felt like I was in the home of Lex Luthor, or a James Bond villain, and that there missiles underneath the archives waiting to blow up the moon or something.
At the top of the mansion, a gorgeous 20-something boy retrieved the subpoenas from 1840 I'd been looking for for my research for my other site.
After that, I went to a marvellous meal with
em_fish to Kilo, and we had fun just hanging out and talking ^_^Edit: I split my massive entry up -- it's getting too long, and releasing it in chunks will give me more time to research. It also means I can flesh out some parts more, that I deal with too lightly.
Edit 2: I edited the first chunk a little, and added a map stolen from Wikipedia -- it was public domain anyway ^_^
And in the "things we learn from Wikipedia" category, Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles, is a direct descendent of one of William of Orange's male lovers, Arnald van Keppel.