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Léon Belmont (the_ambassador) wrote,
@ 2008-04-03 23:57:00

Entry tags:

links, ooc

OOC: Links
These are some sites that you may find useful for playing a character from this period in History:

Age of Sail - A livejournal community with links to icons, meta and essays

Wikipedia on the French Revolution - Self explanatory, really, but a good place for checking facts and figures, and probably the best place to find information.

The Pimpernel Phrase Book - A guide to the language of the time, including curses, government organisations, as well as slang terms used by the lower-classes and by revolutionaries. Also full of some very interesting facts.

Historical Locations - Images of the places around at the time in which the game is set, useful for descriptions or photo-posting or both these buildings and also of similar (fictional?) buildings of the same period. Locations in both France and England.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - On the Gutenberg project a book of slang from around the time period. Very useful for swearwords.

Regency-Era Name Generator – fantastic for English characters.Thank you to innocentmods for finding these.

Regency-Era English Place Generator - English Places for your character to visit/live in/ etc. Thank you to innocentmods for finding these.

French Male Names Generator - French male names, both first and last

French Female Names Generator - The same as above except for women.

Regency Female Dress-Up Doll. Requires Flash Player.

18th Century to 21th Century Currency Converter - Only calculates in Sterling.

Wages in the 18th century - What to pay your servants when!

How to Address the Aristocracy - aristocrats and what to call them.

Icon Sites
If you need a photo-credit/PB here are some sites which may be helpful. Don't forget to check which photo-credits have already been taken.

BBC Costume Drama on livejournal
PB Icons Much love to loopily
Little Women on livejuornal
Blonde regency era girl- blue eyes, upper class
Austin Icons - Icons from Jane Austin films and TV series on a livejournal community
Peeb - Good mix of period icons on Insanejournal
Horatio Hornblower icons! Icons of men in historical costume! On livejournal
Historical Icons! - has beautiful historical icons from all time periods, including some from hard to find projects like Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet.

Suggested PBs:
Looking for a PB? We can direct you to period icons of these PBs. Just leave a comment or email toujoursliberer.rpg@googlemail.com

Laura Fraser
Nina Sosanya
Sally Hawkins
Elaine Cassidy
Jason Isaacs
Connie Nielsen
Charity Wakefield
Dominic Cooper
Frank Harrison
Ruth Wilson
Rebecca Hall
Rafe Spall
Georgie Henley
Daniela Denby-Ashe
Robert Paterson
Anne Parillaud
Leonard Whiting
Rufus Sewell
James Franco
Sophia Myles
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Sienna Miller
Samantha Mathis
Russell Crowe
Anjelica Huston
Clare Danes
Hugh Grant
JJ Fields

	flipsy 2008-05-26 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, could you please direct me to a site that has period icons of Aishwaraya Rai? I've been browsing through the links you left here and I haven't been able to find any. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	the_ambassador 2008-05-26 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, there are a couple of places you will find icons: http://community.livejournal.com/hollow_art/61976.html#cutid1 http://community.livejournal.com/aishwarya_rai/ And if necessary, we can make some for you if you have any particular images you like. (Reply to this) (Parent)