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College prizes
Over four years ago, I discussed this topic in a comment thread at the community revolution_fr. I figure I should post it here to make it more findable, as I think I had originally intended to do anyway. And here, is, of course, the source.
It's a question of the academic competitions between the different colleges of the University of Paris and the ( Read more... ) -
Revolutionary Mayors and Ministers
So I really don't post here anymore because it obliges me to post in English and to translate anything French I do want to post, because that's this blog's modus operandi, but I figure I can do a little post on revolutionary ministers and mayors, since I was answering a question on the subject anyway.
Having been asked about the influence of the ( Read more... ) -
On violence and the Revolution, an open letter
Dear everyone,
The connection between the French Revolution of violence is real and important. There's revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence, popular violence and individual violence, official* violence in all its myriad permutations, etc. No one is denying this. No one has ever denied this. No one. Ever. No seriously, I dare you to find ( Read more... ) -
25th Anniversary Les misérables
So one of the things I decided to do to celebrate the 14 juillet (joyeux 14 juillet, d'ailleurs) was to see 25th anniversary production of "Les misérables" (the musical, obviously). And first, I really need to get this out of the way: it really is impossible to go back to the English version once you know the French versions. This obviously wasn't ( Read more... ) -
So I just saw something that depressed me immensely...
...Is anyone else depressed by people who seem otherwise intelligent and well-intentioned try to say things - or even worse, educate others - about the French Revolution and are so wide of the mark you wonder whether they even bothered applying their apparent intelligence and good faith to the question at all ( Read more... ) -
On misunderstandings
Well, it's been a long time since I've posted, so I thought I'd take a break from my usual Revolutionary preoccupations to share an insight that took me an unfortunately long time to really understand. In fact, there are aspects of it I may still have wrong. It seems to me, however, that when most people, including myself, say anything, even ( Read more... ) -
254 ans !
Joyeux anniversaire à Maximilien Robespierre !
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Curioser and curioser...
I should really be working on my thesis right now instead of posting, but I couldn't resist, if only because this is driving me mad. Remember that post I made a while back on Buonarroti's correspondance and his possible 19th century contact with the Duplays, Éléonore in particular? I somehow managed to overlook yet another piece of evidence in the ( Read more... ) -
It's been an awfully long time...
...And I'm still very busy with my thesis (which should probably not be called that, as it's only supposed to be sixty pages, but whatever), but I just had to share this gem with you all:
"Another newcomer [to the group of contributers to the Mercure national] was Jean-Louis Carra. [...] He joined the Jacobin Club and participated actively in its ( Read more... )
