But I just want to talk about guillotines!

[ennyousai]

My French Revolution class involves annotating a classic, very erudite account of the Revolution from the 19th century. I don't even know enough about the Revolution to know what to annotate. I picked up a sort-of pop history account of the Terror (my assigned section) just to get a grip on events without wading through a sea of academese.

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"But I just want to talk about guillotines!"

[erf_]

*rofl*

Oh, Bess. Please never change.

Re: "But I just want to talk about guillotines!"

[ennyousai]

I shall endeavor not to. :)

[anxiety_junkie]

I thought at first you said that you were reading a pop-up book about the French Revolution. :P

[ennyousai]

I kind of want to write a pop-up book about the French Revolution now. :P Look, kids! This is how a guillotine works!

[delphipsmith]

Er, wouldn't that be a pop-DOWN book LOL?!

[delphipsmith]

Oh wait, maybe this will help...

[delphipsmith]

...a classic, very erudite account of the Revolution from the 19th century...

Is it Carlyle, by any chance? He's a tough read, more poet than historian. I've wanted to read him every since Sara Crewe mentioned him in A Little Princess :)

[ennyousai]

Yup, that's the one! And it drives me NUTS. He references all these little stories that I swear ARE NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE BUT IN HIS OWN DAMN BOOK which makes it a pain to annotate. Arrrrrrrgh.