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Max T-shirts…
I got a couple of T-shirts printed, slightly too late for 14 July, but they'll do for Thermidor (when I'm moving back to my hometown in Yorkshire)… Having recently stumbled on pics of the exquisite Deseine terracotta bust of Max, I realised that I'd been carrying a small torch for some 35 years, since I was a sixth-former… A guilty pleasure. I ( Read more... ) -
Theroigne de Mericourt: sculptural portraits
Both of terracotta busts attributed to Joseph Shinard (1756-1813).
The first is in a private collection Jacquemart-André in Paris.
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portraits of Claire Lacombe (Red Rose)
dear colleagues!
This portrait of Claire Lacombe (4/08/1765 - after 1798), "enragé", creator of Republican Revolutionary Club, appeared on the network about 3 years ago.
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Saint-Just Bio
I'm new and so forth but I did a research on Saint-Just a few years ago back when www.saint-just.net was still up. Unfortunately the internet archive of the page also no longer exists. There was one biography of Saint-Just that was part of a larger work that offered short bios on a few of the principle members of the Terror. In Saint-Just's section ( Read more... ) -
Happy Bastille Day!
The intrawebs are full of fun stuff lately... This is so very, very, very bad, it's actually sort of good. Enjoy! :)
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So cool!
I thought some of you on the comm might enjoy this. See if you can spot the Revolution! Unfortunately there are no dates attached.
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It's past midnight in France...
...but it's still June 20th in certain part of the world! Which makes today the anniversary of the Tennis Court Oath, when the members of the Third Estate (except that lone man who refused, but you know...) vowed not to disband until France had a constitution.
I visited the room in which the Tennis Court Oath took place this April.
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Awful news :(
Saint-Just's childhood home in Blérancourt caught fire last night (photos) because of a barbecue fire at a neighboring house that provoked an explosion (article). I can provide a rough translation of the entire article I've linked to if anyone wants/needs it, but that's...essentially it. Near the end, the mayor says that the museum will be closed ( Read more... ) -
April 5, 1794
"Oh, my poor wife!" he sighed.
These were his last words. His final thought was for Lucile [...] A click, a heavy sound. The head fell.
- Jacques Janssens, Camille Desmoulins : le premier républicain de France
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