I've finally finished my paper on the legal emancipation of the Jews in France and the German states. For a paper in which I got to discuss the Revolution, it was surprisingly dull. But it's done now. And my birthday is next Thursday! :D

Also, though, I've been sick since Spring Break and I still can't sing. I'm definitely going to Student Health ( Read more... )

I remember I had a lot of interesting things to comment on, but I can't remember any of them.

Except that it occurred to me how to make sense of the Revolutionaries' relation to the Roman Republicans. It all makes a lot more sense if you consider that what the former are really admiring in the latter is Republican Virtue Incarnate, rather than the ( Read more... )

So I have a few fun translation related things to share with you. ^__^ No, of course I'm not procrastinating on writing the paper I have due tomorrow or the laundry I have to do before  ( Read more... )

Margerit's series on the Revolution gets so much right, especially through the trial and execution of the Dantonistes - and even after that, in places. So the portrayal of pretty much everything involving Robespierre from that point on is extremely disappointing, to say the least. I finally finished the third book, which is the last one that takes ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, it's only a rather short chapter this time.

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What was done in the Duplay home. - The family’s evenings. - Improvised concerts. - Readings by Robespierre and Le Bas. - Maximilien’s habits and tastes.

If the Revolution was spoken of, in the family gatherings in the Duplay home, they were not occupied, as has been ( Read more... )

For 9-10 Thermidor I figured it would be better not only to grieve - though I did plenty of that, and wore black - but to do something productive. So I worked on proofreading my translation of Gallo's Open Letter, and finished translating the chapters on Thermidor from That Book About Le Bas (which you'll get in order; I still need to post earlier ( Read more... )

Today I graduated from high school. This is, I suppose, a useful accomplishment, but not one that I can say I find particularly important, since it's only the first in a succession of degrees I intend to earn and I didn't really do very much that was noteworthy to get it. :/ More importantly, I'm leaving for a few days to go meet with voice ( Read more... )

...And I thought I would share it with you all, since, even though it's about the bicentennial of the Revolution (and of course it's been nearly twenty years since the bicentennial), it's still quite relevant at present. I've provided both the original words and my own translation. I trust you'll find it sufficiently depressing. :/

J'ai vu des ducs ( Read more... )

...More from That Book About Le Bas. ^__^ This one is mostly footnotes, I'm afraid.

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Retrospective notes. - Maximilien Robespierre welcomed into the Duplays’ home. - Who Duplay the cabinetmaker was. - His fortune. - The reasons for his political convictions. - His family. - Robespierre’s “court.” - Duplay’s daughters. - Éléonore and Robespierre; ( Read more... )

From the same [Philippe Le Bas].

Paris, 21 January 1793.[1]

Finally, my dear father, the tyrant is no more; the execution took place this morning with the greatest order. The people, delivered from this chief conspirator, cried after his head fell: “Vive ( Read more... )