Today marks the 215th anniversary of the deaths of Maximilien and Augustin Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, Dumas, Fleuriot-Lescot, Hanriot, Lavalette, Payan, Jean-Claude Bernard, Charles-Jacques-Mathieu Bougon, Christophe Cochefer, Jean-Barnabé Dhazard, Jean-Étienne Forestier, Antoine Gency, Adrien-Nicolas Gobeau, Nicolas Guérin, Denis-Étienne ( Read more... )

Hamel, sometimes you're a bit crazy (Robespierre =/= Jesus, really!), but I love you anyway. Here's why (from page 482 of the third tome of his Histoire de Robespierre):

"Tout en reprochant à son collègue [Carnot] de persécuter les généraux fidèles, Maximilien, paraît-il, faisait grand cas de ses talents. Carnot, nous dit-on, ne lui rendait pas la ( Read more... )

( In which �lisabeth and Le Bas are finally married. )

( Chapter IX, Part I )

Er, I realize I'm a bit late for the actual anniversary, but since I mean the song, perhaps it can be excused. >.> At any rate, I can't stop listening to it, so I thought I'd share...

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Sauf des mouchards et des gendarmes,
On ne voit plus par les chemins,
Que des vieillards tristes en larmes,
Des veuves et des orphelins.
Paris suinte la misère,
Les ( Read more... )

So last time, as you may or may not remember (it's been so long now, after all), I said I hadn't yet translated chapter six. I lied; not only have I translated it (sometimes badly, admittedly), I already posted it quite some time ago. It can be found through the tag "That Book About Le Bas." I may post a revised version of the chapter some time in ( Read more... )

...More from "Brutus et Cassius". Don't you just feel amazingly lucky? >.> (Now with new fun neoclassical iconage! :D)
( Act II Scene II )

Actually, here he's pretty unequivocal, as E. Hamel reports (Tome III, p. 16 of his Histoire de Robespierre, if anyone's curious):

( I believe this is from the session of 17 June 1793. )

...To note the awesomeness of this. For those of you who can't read French, they're installing a monumental bronze copy of David d'Angers's bust of Saint-Just at the Hôtel de Ville of Blérancourt. :D

Because this post is so short, I'm afraid I'm going to have to inflict another scene from "Brutus et Cassius" on you. >.>

( Act II Scene I )

Worse still (because it's not like I would ever take recommendations like that from a stupid online bookstore), I am pretty much being compelled to read a rabid revisionist for my history paper, even though it isn't a paper on historiography. This is what my professor had to say on the subject, essentially:

"So, I'm recommending *cough* that you ( Read more... )