(Also for Three Word Wednesday and ABC Wednesday: "L" is for "Laura")
I’ll call her Laura.
(Though that was definitely not her name.)
The thing to know about her is that she had
everything.
Especially money. Huge amounts of the happy cabbage. If she wanted something, she bought it. She couldn’t think of any good reason not to.
You might be surprised to learn that Laura rarely
visited the houses of the top fashion designers; instead, those top designers
came to her place.
And the place she lived in was too much. An incredible house; the word “mansion” is
inadequate to describe it.
Naturally she had a staff of gourmet chefs routinely
turning out masterpieces of l’art culinaire. She could have, had she so desired, a
complete meal of nothing but fabulous desserts.
But the trouble is, when life itself is nothing but desserts there’s a
fly in the crème caramel: it gets
boring.
She knew, vaguely, that there was such a thing as
poor people, with barren lives, and she had even heard that such types strongly resented her and
her profligate ways. But she didn’t
allow it to worry her too much. What was important for her was that her
existence was getting monotonous.
So she had a great idea.
She was tired of her sumptuous lifestyle, tired of
opulence – it was all artificial. She
wanted to live real life, the way real people lived. She believed that farmers and peasants and
such were happily enjoying a more authentic existence close to the earth.
Well, as we mentioned earlier, when she wanted
something intensely she bought it. So she decided
to buy real life.
She had architects design a bucolic farmhouse,
saturated with rusticity, on her property.
She had top designers create simple peasant costumes for her.
She had a small private meadowland with a lake, a
nearby grotto and a stream that turned a huge mill wheel. There was no mill; the turning wheel was just
for show.
Laura went whole-hog – yes, she had some of those
too because she had farm animals brought in.
She enjoyed milking the cows, carrying her Sevres porcelain milk-pail with
her.
You might think all this could endear her to the
general population, but the opposite was the case. Poor folks heard about her bucolic adventures
and thought she was mocking their wretched existence. Her remark about brioche was probably never made.
A few facts. Fact
number one, her name wasn’t Laura (but you knew that). Fact number two, who was she?
(The
answer will be posted Saturday.)
28 comments:
Marie-Antoinette, perhaps?
Great quiz!
Freya Writes has written - the correct answer.
Sounds vaguely familiar, but I doubt I can come up with the name.
No, no, wait!
Could it be Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France? Yes! Upon rereading "brioche" (Qu'ils mangent de la …) confirms it.
Oh, this is a tough one! Tiny hint? Book, play, movie?
I guess this is a tough one. I never know, when I start out, if the quiz question will turn out to be too difficult or be criticized because it's "too easy."
A correct answer has been submitted by - naturally - naturgesetz.
Marie Antionette and Le hameau her mock farmyard at Versailles.
A well told story Berowne, which led inexorably to the only possible answer: Marie Antoinette, of the 'Let them eat cake...' myth.
Two regulars, Altonian and oldegg, both have the right answer.
Marie Antoinette peut-être?
Congrats to rel, another with the correct answer.
Let them eat Cake Brioche !
It must have been that dreadful Marie Antoinette. But, it is said she was too nice to have said that, and it was more probably Marie-Therese, a hundred years earlier.
Stafford Ray has also coughed up the right answer.
Kutamun also indicates knowledge of the correct answer.
Fine advice to follow- Laura had it about right!
She's Marie Antoinette. Very nice write.
I love the idea of this quiz! forgive me for being so late, but I'm returning to 3WW after a long absence and I'm trying to catch up on this week. I think it is Marie Antoinette, but I guess I ma too late to answer really ;)
Hello Berowne,
Two wild guesses, either George Sands or Marie Antoinette ?
Best wishes,
Di.
abcWednesday team.
Three "winners": SilverGardenia, Gill and Trubes all have the right answer.
Oh I saw that movie. Great sets and costumes but the acting was appalling. The music was terrible as well.Hollywood is not good at making these historical films
I really don;t know.
Oh yes, Marie Antoinette dressed as a young shepherdess acting like a peasant, hopefully truly enjoyed all before her sad death.
Karen S has just stepped up with the correct answer.
Waiting the answer with "bated breath!" ;-)
Marie Antoinette? It's always perplexed me the way she build a cottage in the shadow of her castle...
Another right answer, this time from Erin.
I just knew it was her and should have said so!!
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