i found some PDFs of books about the french revolution that I've seen mentioned on Tumblr multiple times before, so I decided to make a drive folder (like @/iadorepigeons did, check theirs too!)
I'll update this every time i find something new!!
“I condemn the dust of which I am made, this dust that speaks to you now. It can be persecuted, it can be brought to death. But I challenge the world to take from me that part of me which will live through the centuries and survive in the skies.”
—
Antoine Saint-Just
I feel like we all need this quote right now.
It’s not a bad translation per se, but if you want to keep the true power of this magnificent quote, it should be translated as:
I despise the dust that forms me and speaks to you; you may persecute and make this dust die! But I defy you to rip from me this independent life I have given to myself in the centuries and in the skies.
[Original: Je méprise la poussière qui me compose et qui vous parle ; on pourra la persécuter et faire mourir cette poussière ! Mais je défie qu’on m’arrache cette vie indépendante que je me suis donnée dans les siècles et dans les cieux.]
The small nuances are important because “mépriser” is much harsher than condemn. The direct translation is “to despise”.
“Take from me” - it’s not wrong but again the language is much stronger. The first direct translation of “arracher” are “to snatch” and “to extract”.
“That part of me which will live” - no. That part is actually wrong. He says this independent life I have given myself. It’s really powerful. It’s more than a part of himself that will live on. It’s the most important part of the quote, I might say.
The rest is just stylistic preference.
Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.
Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
This image is so so fucking important to me
Reblog this, cowards
happy 225th birthday giacomo leopardi (my blog banner)… maybe you were a little stupid but i still love you and i hope you're resting in peace
RIP robespierre, you would've loved the poem "out of the bag" by seamus heaney
#weird ass poem but it's cool#basically it talks about childbirth at first#and this doctor who is portrayed as evil#and the speaker a child imagines child gore#????#and then there are many ancient greece references#and it ends with the mother yet birthing another child#this is a very unserious summary and i haven't done the poem justice#but idk#i read ancient greece stuff and i think of robs#frev#robespierre
EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE THIS MEME I MADE IN JANUARY, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SEE IT, I GET SHOCKED AT HOW I PHOTOSHOPPED SJ'S FACE
should i share the frev edits i made in like january february when i started studying frev
warning: they're cringe and some are jokes some are serious but they're generally very ugly
ok I'll post them as soon as i turn on my laptop, but I'm telling you, your homepage will be FLOODED because they're all videos and i can't post them together…💀
some troll on reddit started dming me and telling me to kill myself and calling me a tranny and all that. and then, a half an hour in, they spring this on me
oh my fucking god
And at last, here’s a preview of the show opener, “Tyrant!” Lyrics are below, thank you so much!
Long ago, in old Paris,
There lived a man so vile and obscene that
History reveres him to this day
He who led his horrid reign
Of terror, violence and pain
Has finally met his rightly deserved fate
No more shall we pray for our lives as we cower in fear!
No more shall our people be slaughtered on mass!
Rejoice and applaud, for there truly is a god
‘Cause the monster is dead; all our problems now lie in the past!
He was a tyrant!
A brutal monster
A tyrant!
A bloody dictator
Tyrant!
The likes of which you’ve never seen before, oh
Thank the lord that the honest men settled the score
So now that brutal tyrant
Can’t torture the living anymore!
Apologies if this is way too detailed as I’m aware there’s no consensus on the exact death count for the Terror, but I was wondering if you knew any more details around Greer’s claim that 75% of those executed had actually taken up arms against the republic ? This was very interesting , as it suggests the paranoid rhetoric and bizarre arrests for trivial reasons you get in Paris was very much a local phenomenon and didn’t add up to create that substantial a part of the numbers elsewhere (which is obviously the narrative.) How does Greers actually get the info on them having taken up arms (especially given the kangaroo court nature of the tribunal at times), and if accurate , are these mostly people from the Vendee or the Federalist cities, or where are they from ?
On page 81-82 of his The Incidence of the Terror during the French Revolution Greer writes the following:
Two pages later he writes that the majority of the sedition indictments — logically enough — were passed in areas where uprisings had occured:
As for how exactly Greer obtains the information he gives us, I was struck by the fact that he almost exclusively cites other books as his sources (I could actually not find a single reference to any form of archive). The works cited in the footnotes for the chapter where the above citations originate from are mainly Tableau général des victimes et martyrs de la Révolution en Lyonnais, Forez et Beaujolais by Antonin Portallier, Les 332 victimes de la commission populaire d’Oranfe en 1794 by Simeon Bonnel, Histoire du Tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris and Les répresentants du peuple en mission et la justice révolutionnaire dans les départements by Henri Wallon, La justice révolutionnaire à Paris et dans les départements, août 1792-prairial an III by Ch. Berriat-Saint-Prix, La Terreur dans le Pas-de-Calais et dans le Nord by Auguste Paris and Étude historique sur la commission militaire et révolutionnaire établie à Granville en l’an II de la République by M. E Sarot. I think we would have to turn to these books for an idea of how exactly the numbers were collected, seeing as Greer’s job is much more about summarizing and adding together what other historians have already come up with than is is about doing a total count based on material he’s collected all by himself (which was actually what I thought it was prior to this ask).
About Marat's Chains Of Slavery:
"None of the "disguised and secret attacks of the princes" can be contested by the public. Beyond impressive scholarship, real or exaggerated, these notes reveal an effective political conception of the role of history. History, for Marat, is the main vector of the image of power, an image that it must convey to the people. The despots are linked to corrupted historians, ready to celebrate their greatness (Marat is not unaware that historiography was made official for this purpose by Louis XIV, in France). Their main method is to distort reality. Despotism imposes itself on opinion, as covertly as possible, by words that misrepresent things. Marat attaches considerable value to the precision of language: perhaps he needs to see in this a new translation of the rigorous character of his spirit. A similar scrupulousness about language made him submit the manuscript of the Essay on the Human Soul to Lord Lyttleton's reading. Chains of Slavery, on the other hand, has not benefited from such a correction and, despite the attention given to political vocabulary, the work is in many parts written in very awkward English and full of Gallicisms. To counterbalance, therefore, the "false ideas about tyranny" (title of chapter 1.X1), the honest historian must only tell the truth, to which he must consecrate his life. Vitam impendere vero: such is the motto, borrowed from Rousseau, under which Marat places his reflection. Of this truth, the footnotes are one of the guarantees."
Olivier Coquard in "Marat, The Friend Of The People: The formation of a citizen of the world", pg. 71
should i share the frev edits i made in like january february when i started studying frev
warning: they're cringe and some are jokes some are serious but they're generally very ugly
nah bc very often i find myself thinking about this:
philippe le bas was married to élisabeth duplay;
robespierre could have been married to éléonore duplay if he didn't die (yeah ik this isn't 100% sure);
saint just had some sort of relationship with henriette le bas, so they could have married…?
but like imagine if robespierre and saint just did marry these women. all three would have been in some way related to each other
Robespierre, et son ami Saint-Just.
du livre << Le fil de l'histoire: La Révolution française >> par Fabrice Erre et Sylvain Savoia
I got this from the Conciergerie, and I'm going through the pages more diligently now. I thought this drawing was fun. They both look especially irritated here lol.
Honorable Marat and Camille addition 😭
So the Commetee has been established since 1973. Cool, they are all still alive!
Let's talk about statements like this.
TLTR: The coup is good for Ukraine and the counter-offensive but nevertheless bad news because its not "good guy vs bad guy" - Putin and Prighozin is "awful fucking bad guy" vs "awful fucking bad guy".
As long as they are tearing each other apart and fighting each other, it is good news for Ukraine. The situation in the combat zones will most likely be massively disrupted and makes it easier for Ukraine to launch a / continue their counteroffensive. (In the absolute ideal case, the Russian system collapses, because both fight each other until the end, the war is over and the Russians get the fuck out the occupied territories. In the absolute ideal case.)
But: No matter which of the two sides in Russia "wins - it's not good news for Ukraine. Putin is a fascist dictator. Prighozin is the leader of a Nazi army. Both want the war, support the war, are pro-war. Both are war criminals. And are "arguing" about how to commit genocide against the Ukrainian people more effectively.
All of this.
It's still a very clear sign that the system Russia and Putin are about to collapse. Maybe right now. Maybe in the few days. Maybe ... . But it's collapsing.
t h i s 👌🏼☝🏼
Wow, Belarusians are gonna jump on this.
i didnt saw one of these so here is the news
In case anyone's browsing the reblogs looking for deets, Yevgeny Prigozhin (the chief of merc group Wagner and a close confident of Putin) launched an armed rebellion and took Rostov-on-Don.
The situation is developing but here's The Guardian live updates page