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pyrrhiccomedy

The Fishwives' March

Mar 12, 2010 02:43

The Fishwives' March - France, Marie Antoinette.
The moment France turned against the monarchy and joined the mob during the French Revolution.
Genre: Drama.
1789. PG-13.

Just something short.

Click here to read this fic in Russian. Translation by dershternen.

( Read it behind the cut. )

fanfic, france

Comments 123

wizzard890 March 11 2010, 19:29:38 UTC

Ohgod I have been waiting for this...

And it's every bit as terrifying as I had hoped it would be. Just...so often, the revolution we get in fandom is the American one. Which was...a different kind of rebellion than what overtook France. Something in the national consciousness just...snapped.

"Do you know, I have never much liked you, Your Majesty."

This. This gave me chills.

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:42:45 UTC

The American revolution is pretty damn cool, and you'll never hear me say otherwise, but...oh God, France. The next 25 years for France are equal parts magnificent and terrifying.

wizzard890 March 11 2010, 19:49:35 UTC

And the magnificence was terrifying, and vice versa. Just France doing what had to be done in order to bring about a changed world, to the point where...the cruelty and madness of it all almost seems...worth it.

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:53:13 UTC

And that's really the thing, isn't it? It's very easy to judge the actions of the French revolutionaries, but...when you consider their situation...would anything else have worked?

mithrigil March 11 2010, 19:40:01 UTC

Oh that was subtle, and beautiful, and theatrical. And it elicits dark, dark, vaguely maniacal grinning.

...

... :grin:

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:44:14 UTC

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! I just. The French Revolution has the kind of narrative force that sucks the breath out of me.

plushielover177 March 11 2010, 19:44:07 UTC

I love you for writing this! There's not nearly as much Revolution!France as there should be.

Even more so, since France completely losing it durng the Revolution is my head canon.

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:45:41 UTC

I don't know if I think France was insane, but he was...edgy, and dangerous, and certainly had moments of madness or at least that kind of wild, violent hysteria that can drive a crowd to break into the city prisons and murder everyone in it. In a dark and horrible way, I think France was so vibrant during the Revolution it was breathtaking.

rotifora March 11 2010, 19:51:17 UTC

...YES THANK YOU.
There are so many events that fandom has bypassed about the French Revolution that I had given up hope. So glad you're the one who wrote it.

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:55:09 UTC

I fangirl the French Revolution so hard it's just kinda unseemly.

rotifora March 11 2010, 20:09:21 UTC

The French Revolution should be fangirled! And have its own club. With cool t-shirts quoting famous revolutionaries.

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 20:12:16 UTC

Marat had some pretty rousing slogans. *grins*

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musubi7 March 11 2010, 19:55:17 UTC

Dude, the fact that you can squeeze so much emotion in such a small space...

*bows*

If only A Tale of Two Cities was this riveting. But, alas, no. I hate that book and resent my teacher for making me read it in high school

pyrrhiccomedy March 11 2010, 19:56:30 UTC

The only thing that could make Dickens fun is if you came up with some kind of drinking game revolving around his endless fucking compound sentences.

Brevity, asshole.

musubi7 March 11 2010, 20:00:11 UTC

XD

So, so, so true. Trying not to laugh obnoxiously at work. :P