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the massacre is an all-timer of a doctor who serial. it's a historical, but it's specifically a historical about an event that the vast majority of viewers would be unfamiliar with. william hartnell is there twice but you'd never notice because the entire thing is missing. it has probably one of the greatest confrontations and speeches by both the doctor and his companion in doctor who history. the historical event in question is one of the bloodiest, most violent, most genuinely sickening in french history, and to be honest just history in general. steven suffers more in this one than he usually does, which is really saying something. the doctor just fucking abandons him in one of the most violent periods in french history. dodo is also there
#dear penny Anna whomst I am reblogging this from#I have been seeing posts about the massacre for years#I am not a doctor who fan.#I am a history nerd#Is this about St. Bartholomews day massacre?#Every fucking screenshot I've seen has that doctor guy and his entourage of young men dressed in late 16th century garb#First of all they are slaying but back on topic#What the hell happens. What do we know#Maybe I should correct something#Maybe I am not a doctor who fan. Yet.#I have been asking myself this question for a long time. Please. Anyone. Tell me if it is that masacre
yes, it's the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. you sometimes see the story referred to as 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'*
tragically there are not screenshots at all as it's a missing story w no visual record; the images you've seen are photographs taking during the dress rehearsal.
*(some 60s who stories have multiple titles in use)**
**(I think 'The Massacre' is generally preferred as the historical event is not called 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' on account of it took place on the day itself and not the eve but I think the title might actually be referring to the fact that the events take place on the eve of the massacre given that there is a pivotal scene where the Doctor realises the massacre is going to happen the following day but i digress)
apologies if this is a bit of a tangent but it’s been on my mind for a while - ‘the massacre of st bartholemew’s eve’ is also a phrase used in the first english translation of alexandre dumas’s la reine margot, which features the massacre of the huguenots as its inciting incident
[ID: An anonymous English translation (Margaret of Navarre: or the Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve, London: G. Pierce, 2 vols.), based on the text of the serialisation, was rushed out immediately. However, the somewhat compressed Marguerite de Valois: An Historical Romance (London: David Bogue, 1846) was preferred by English and American publishers who were to reprint it regularly.]
(from the oxford world classics edition)
james cooray smith in his black archive on the doctor who serial also suggests that it might not have been as unknown a piece of history at the time as is generally assumed, since there had been a high profile adaptation of la reine margot under a decade before.
conclusion: the weirdness of the longer title miighht be the fault of some anonymous nineteenth century french to english translator? i guess it depends on when and who titled it that in production and how aware they were of dumas 🤔
the massacre is an all-timer of a doctor who serial. it's a historical, but it's specifically a historical about an event that the vast majority of viewers would be unfamiliar with. william hartnell is there twice but you'd never notice because the entire thing is missing. it has probably one of the greatest confrontations and speeches by both the doctor and his companion in doctor who history. the historical event in question is one of the bloodiest, most violent, most genuinely sickening in french history, and to be honest just history in general. steven suffers more in this one than he usually does, which is really saying something. the doctor just fucking abandons him in one of the most violent periods in french history. dodo is also there
#dear penny Anna whomst I am reblogging this from#I have been seeing posts about the massacre for years#I am not a doctor who fan.#I am a history nerd#Is this about St. Bartholomews day massacre?#Every fucking screenshot I've seen has that doctor guy and his entourage of young men dressed in late 16th century garb#First of all they are slaying but back on topic#What the hell happens. What do we know#Maybe I should correct something#Maybe I am not a doctor who fan. Yet.#I have been asking myself this question for a long time. Please. Anyone. Tell me if it is that masacre
yes, it's the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. you sometimes see the story referred to as 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'*
tragically there are not screenshots at all as it's a missing story w no visual record; the images you've seen are photographs taking during the dress rehearsal.
*(some 60s who stories have multiple titles in use)**
**(I think 'The Massacre' is generally preferred as the historical event is not called 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' on account of it took place on the day itself and not the eve but I think the title might actually be referring to the fact that the events take place on the eve of the massacre given that there is a pivotal scene where the Doctor realises the massacre is going to happen the following day but i digress)
#THANK YOU I was RIGHT!! MY FASHION GUESSING WAS ON POINT! that's a win#Fascinated by this#so curious what could they have possibly been doing#because by this point there is material on St Bartholomews day masscaacre (the historical event)#Dumas and Mérimée had both written their respective novels on the subject#And There's So many ways to take a story with this#like how heftily did they interact with historical people?#Does doctor who pass Henry of Navarra in the streets and tip his hat?#Does doctor who sneak about the Louvre and detangle the schemes of Catherine de Medici?#im starting to understand y'all's obsession with this
ok so i guarantee you will not be able to guess what they do with it bcos it's genuinely so odd fgkhdfg. im going to cut this it got long.
as I said above The Massacre is a missing story BUT, like all Doctor Who missing stories, there are fan-made audio recordings available. this will be relevant.
SO The Massacre was actually one of the last Doctor Who historicals* and to my understanding one of the reasons they stopped doing them was a Concern that they might cause children to become confused about history? Like. they thought if they did a Doctor Who story where Doctor Who becomes involved in a major historical event children might think Doctor Who was real or something?
anyway: i think this is the reason why The Massacre is, hm, oddly structured? the main villain is indeed Catherine de Medici but the Doctor and Steven never once interact with her. there's just a kind of ongoing B plot where there'll be a scene at the palace with the royal court discussing what they're going to do about the Huguenot Problem.
the Doctor, in fact, is barely in The Massacre at all. it seems the intention was to do an identical double story where William Hartnell would play both the Doctor and a villain called the Abbot of Amboise** but for unclear reasons the story was re-written so Hartnell appears a the Doctor in episodes 1 and 4 and the Abbot in episodes 2 and 3. This had confusing results.
the plot is thus: the Doctor and Steven land in late 16th century Paris. the Doctor decides to go and visit local scientist Charles Preslin.*** Steven isn't interested so decides to just kick around the pub instead, where he befriends a group of Huguenots including a young woman called Anne Chaplet.
The Doctor meets Preslin only to find he's in dire straits due to being a Huguenot doing controversial scientific research. The Doctor comes up with an Idea to help him and the scene cuts away before explaining what said Idea was.
Steven gets increasingly embroiled in the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Admiral Coligny, the only historical figure who the main characters do interact with. Steven by his own admission knows Jack Shit about the 16th century French history and is completely out of his depth.
meanwhile, the Abbot of Amboise has been summoned to Paris to help deal w the Huguenots and is also played by William Hartnell. Steven crosses paths with him and this sparks off what I can only describe as a very dark comedy of errors as he tries to figure out if the Abbot is the Doctor in disguise or a different guy who just happens to look exactly like the Doctor.
over the course of all this Steven, through his bizarre behaviour, manages to accidentally convince his new Huguenot friends that he's a Catholic spy sent by the church and convince the Catholic church that he's a protestant spy sent by the English government.
while this is going on Steven takes Anne Chaplet under his protection. Anne is in especially dire straits as she overhead some members of the Abbot's household talking about their plans, got caught listening in, and is now been hunting down to silence her.
Steven manages to win the Huguenot's trust and helps them prevent the Admiral from being assassinated by in retaliation a group of Huguenots assassinate the Abbot of Amboise, devastating Steven, who at this point in the story is convinced that the Abbot is the Doctor in disguise. He is chased away from the Abbot's body by a mob who think he is one of the killers.
Steven and Anne go back to Preslin's shop (now abandoned) as Steven is hoping the Doctor might have left the key to the TARDIS there. the Doctor then shows back up alive and well and basically refuses to explain where he's been the whole time. presumably helping Preslin escape the city? he just never explains himself.
the Doctor puts together from Steven's description of what he missed that it's the day before the St Bartholomew's Massacre, sends Anne Chaplet home with instructions not to go outside tomorrow, and then insists that he and Steven leave immediately in the TARDIS.
just as they leave, soldiers begin breaking down the door of the Admiral's house.
this is followed, on the audio recording, by a solid minute and a half of just straight up screaming. its just people screaming and dying while an ominous drum beat plays. the most well known reconstruction opted to use details from Francois Dubois's painting of the massacre for the visuals to genuinely haunting effect.
back in the TARDIS, the Doctor has explained to Steven what happened in Paris after they left. and then uh i'll just quote it:
STEVEN: Surely there was something we could have done?
DOCTOR: No, nothing. Nothing. In any case, I cannot change the course of history, you know that. The massacre continued for several days in Paris and then spread itself to other parts of France. Oh, what a senseless waste. What a terrible page of the past.
STEVEN: Did they all die?
DOCTOR: Yes, most of them. About ten thousand in Paris alone.
STEVEN: The Admiral?
DOCTOR: Yes.
STEVEN: Nicholas? You had to leave Anne Chaplet there to die.
DOCTOR: Anne Chaplet?
STEVEN: The girl! The girl who was with me! If you'd brought her with us she needn't have died. But no, you had to leave her there to be slaughtered.
DOCTOR: Well, it is possible of course she didn't die, and I was right to leave her.
STEVEN: Possible? Look, how possible? That girl was already hunted by the Catholic guards. If they killed ten thousand how did they spare her? You don't know, do you? You can't say for certain that you weren't responsible for that girl's death.
DOCTOR: I was not responsible.
STEVEN: Oh, no. You just sent her back to her aunt's house where the guards were waiting to catch her. I tell you this much, Doctor, wherever this machine of yours lands next I'm getting off. If your researches have so little regard for human life then I want no part of it.
Steven follows through on his threat and storms out of the TARDIS when they land and for the first time in the show, the Doctor is left alone. he delivers a little speech in the TARDIS about how all his friends have left him and he can never go home to his own planet before lapsing into silence.
at this point the story takes a puzzling turn as while the Doctor is sitting there all sadly a 1960s teenage girl wanders into the TARDIS thinking it's a real police box. shortly afterwards Steven comes back in, declines to explain what made him change his mind, and says they should take off as the police have taken notice of the TARDIS. they leave, taking the girl with them.****
the girl introduces herself as Dodo Chaplet, prompting the Doctor and Steven to realise she might be Anne Chaplet's descendent, implying she survived The Massacre. their relationship is seemingly healed by this?? its fine now I guess. none of this will ever be brought up again.
anyway there's a fan theory that Steven and Anne had sex offscreen during the events of The Massacre and Dodo is also Steven's descent and honestly that might even have been the original intent i wouldn't be all that surprised.
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*this is a 60s who specific format. its a dr who story where the only science fiction element is the presence of the main characters via time travel and the plot is otherwise a historical drama.
**just went to check if this is a real historical figure. answer seems to be 'yes and no'. Amboise is a real place and would have had an abbot at the time the story takes place but said abbot is apparently not a documented person.
***i don't know much about this bit of history so im just now realising that Charles Preslin isn't a real guy? they just made him up. ok.
okay. Wow. Holy shit. Some thoughts under cut with obvious spoilers for historical and fictional events. I respect wanting to find out history for yourself even if it's already happened so go forth and do that I guess
THEY GET INVOLVED WITH COLIGNY????? THAT'S. HMM. UNWELL. MY GOD. ok.
While i don't know if Charles Preslin and Anne Chaplet were real, odds are the doctors advice to stay inside on the day of the massacre probably wouldn't have done jack shit, on account of how the whole thing started at night anyway, when most people (COLIGNY INCLUDED) were inside their houses and this did nothing to protect them. (You can find out more by looking up what happened to Coligny's corpse, but I do warn you it's not for the weak and particularly gruly and brutal.)
Anyway. Amboise is an interesting name to pick because it reminds me of the Amboise conspiracy, albeit that was in 1560 and the massacre itself in 1572. The Amboise conspiracy involved kidnapping the then 15 year old king Francis II. (Didn't work. )
Anyway, this is a more normal plot i guess if you can call it that? I mean as long as Steven isn't personally sneaking into the chambers of Marguerite de Valois, sister of the king, you're kind of in the clear ? It is however compelling to think of a better plot. I have 0 credentials and have never seen a single doctor who ep so I will not be doing that but I can provide some historical information.
as someone with an interest in both sixteenth century religion and doctor who it is very entertaining to watch the two collide from people who are only familiar with one or the other
the massacre is an all-timer of a doctor who serial. it's a historical, but it's specifically a historical about an event that the vast majority of viewers would be unfamiliar with. william hartnell is there twice but you'd never notice because the entire thing is missing. it has probably one of the greatest confrontations and speeches by both the doctor and his companion in doctor who history. the historical event in question is one of the bloodiest, most violent, most genuinely sickening in french history, and to be honest just history in general. steven suffers more in this one than he usually does, which is really saying something. the doctor just fucking abandons him in one of the most violent periods in french history. dodo is also there
#dear penny Anna whomst I am reblogging this from#I have been seeing posts about the massacre for years#I am not a doctor who fan.#I am a history nerd#Is this about St. Bartholomews day massacre?#Every fucking screenshot I've seen has that doctor guy and his entourage of young men dressed in late 16th century garb#First of all they are slaying but back on topic#What the hell happens. What do we know#Maybe I should correct something#Maybe I am not a doctor who fan. Yet.#I have been asking myself this question for a long time. Please. Anyone. Tell me if it is that masacre
yes, it's the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. you sometimes see the story referred to as 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'*
tragically there are not screenshots at all as it's a missing story w no visual record; the images you've seen are photographs taking during the dress rehearsal.
*(some 60s who stories have multiple titles in use)**
**(I think 'The Massacre' is generally preferred as the historical event is not called 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' on account of it took place on the day itself and not the eve but I think the title might actually be referring to the fact that the events take place on the eve of the massacre given that there is a pivotal scene where the Doctor realises the massacre is going to happen the following day but i digress)
#THANK YOU I was RIGHT!! MY FASHION GUESSING WAS ON POINT! that's a win#Fascinated by this#so curious what could they have possibly been doing#because by this point there is material on St Bartholomews day masscaacre (the historical event)#Dumas and Mérimée had both written their respective novels on the subject#And There's So many ways to take a story with this#like how heftily did they interact with historical people?#Does doctor who pass Henry of Navarra in the streets and tip his hat?#Does doctor who sneak about the Louvre and detangle the schemes of Catherine de Medici?#im starting to understand y'all's obsession with this
ok so i guarantee you will not be able to guess what they do with it bcos it's genuinely so odd fgkhdfg. im going to cut this it got long.
as I said above The Massacre is a missing story BUT, like all Doctor Who missing stories, there are fan-made audio recordings available. this will be relevant.
SO The Massacre was actually one of the last Doctor Who historicals* and to my understanding one of the reasons they stopped doing them was a Concern that they might cause children to become confused about history? Like. they thought if they did a Doctor Who story where Doctor Who becomes involved in a major historical event children might think Doctor Who was real or something?
anyway: i think this is the reason why The Massacre is, hm, oddly structured? the main villain is indeed Catherine de Medici but the Doctor and Steven never once interact with her. there's just a kind of ongoing B plot where there'll be a scene at the palace with the royal court discussing what they're going to do about the Huguenot Problem.
the Doctor, in fact, is barely in The Massacre at all. it seems the intention was to do an identical double story where William Hartnell would play both the Doctor and a villain called the Abbot of Amboise** but for unclear reasons the story was re-written so Hartnell appears a the Doctor in episodes 1 and 4 and the Abbot in episodes 2 and 3. This had confusing results.
the plot is thus: the Doctor and Steven land in late 16th century Paris. the Doctor decides to go and visit local scientist Charles Preslin.*** Steven isn't interested so decides to just kick around the pub instead, where he befriends a group of Huguenots including a young woman called Anne Chaplet.
The Doctor meets Preslin only to find he's in dire straits due to being a Huguenot doing controversial scientific research. The Doctor comes up with an Idea to help him and the scene cuts away before explaining what said Idea was.
Steven gets increasingly embroiled in the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Admiral Coligny, the only historical figure who the main characters do interact with. Steven by his own admission knows Jack Shit about the 16th century French history and is completely out of his depth.
meanwhile, the Abbot of Amboise has been summoned to Paris to help deal w the Huguenots and is also played by William Hartnell. Steven crosses paths with him and this sparks off what I can only describe as a very dark comedy of errors as he tries to figure out if the Abbot is the Doctor in disguise or a different guy who just happens to look exactly like the Doctor.
over the course of all this Steven, through his bizarre behaviour, manages to accidentally convince his new Huguenot friends that he's a Catholic spy sent by the church and convince the Catholic church that he's a protestant spy sent by the English government.
while this is going on Steven takes Anne Chaplet under his protection. Anne is in especially dire straits as she overhead some members of the Abbot's household talking about their plans, got caught listening in, and is now been hunting down to silence her.
Steven manages to win the Huguenot's trust and helps them prevent the Admiral from being assassinated by in retaliation a group of Huguenots assassinate the Abbot of Amboise, devastating Steven, who at this point in the story is convinced that the Abbot is the Doctor in disguise. He is chased away from the Abbot's body by a mob who think he is one of the killers.
Steven and Anne go back to Preslin's shop (now abandoned) as Steven is hoping the Doctor might have left the key to the TARDIS there. the Doctor then shows back up alive and well and basically refuses to explain where he's been the whole time. presumably helping Preslin escape the city? he just never explains himself.
the Doctor puts together from Steven's description of what he missed that it's the day before the St Bartholomew's Massacre, sends Anne Chaplet home with instructions not to go outside tomorrow, and then insists that he and Steven leave immediately in the TARDIS.
just as they leave, soldiers begin breaking down the door of the Admiral's house.
this is followed, on the audio recording, by a solid minute and a half of just straight up screaming. its just people screaming and dying while an ominous drum beat plays. the most well known reconstruction opted to use details from Francois Dubois's painting of the massacre for the visuals to genuinely haunting effect.
back in the TARDIS, the Doctor has explained to Steven what happened in Paris after they left. and then uh i'll just quote it:
STEVEN: Surely there was something we could have done?
DOCTOR: No, nothing. Nothing. In any case, I cannot change the course of history, you know that. The massacre continued for several days in Paris and then spread itself to other parts of France. Oh, what a senseless waste. What a terrible page of the past.
STEVEN: Did they all die?
DOCTOR: Yes, most of them. About ten thousand in Paris alone.
STEVEN: The Admiral?
DOCTOR: Yes.
STEVEN: Nicholas? You had to leave Anne Chaplet there to die.
DOCTOR: Anne Chaplet?
STEVEN: The girl! The girl who was with me! If you'd brought her with us she needn't have died. But no, you had to leave her there to be slaughtered.
DOCTOR: Well, it is possible of course she didn't die, and I was right to leave her.
STEVEN: Possible? Look, how possible? That girl was already hunted by the Catholic guards. If they killed ten thousand how did they spare her? You don't know, do you? You can't say for certain that you weren't responsible for that girl's death.
DOCTOR: I was not responsible.
STEVEN: Oh, no. You just sent her back to her aunt's house where the guards were waiting to catch her. I tell you this much, Doctor, wherever this machine of yours lands next I'm getting off. If your researches have so little regard for human life then I want no part of it.
Steven follows through on his threat and storms out of the TARDIS when they land and for the first time in the show, the Doctor is left alone. he delivers a little speech in the TARDIS about how all his friends have left him and he can never go home to his own planet before lapsing into silence.
at this point the story takes a puzzling turn as while the Doctor is sitting there all sadly a 1960s teenage girl wanders into the TARDIS thinking it's a real police box. shortly afterwards Steven comes back in, declines to explain what made him change his mind, and says they should take off as the police have taken notice of the TARDIS. they leave, taking the girl with them.****
the girl introduces herself as Dodo Chaplet, prompting the Doctor and Steven to realise she might be Anne Chaplet's descendent, implying she survived The Massacre. their relationship is seemingly healed by this?? its fine now I guess. none of this will ever be brought up again.
anyway there's a fan theory that Steven and Anne had sex offscreen during the events of The Massacre and Dodo is also Steven's descent and honestly that might even have been the original intent i wouldn't be all that surprised.
----
*this is a 60s who specific format. its a dr who story where the only science fiction element is the presence of the main characters via time travel and the plot is otherwise a historical drama.
**just went to check if this is a real historical figure. answer seems to be 'yes and no'. Amboise is a real place and would have had an abbot at the time the story takes place but said abbot is apparently not a documented person.
***i don't know much about this bit of history so im just now realising that Charles Preslin isn't a real guy? they just made him up. ok.
okay. Wow. Holy shit. Some thoughts under cut with obvious spoilers for historical and fictional events. I respect wanting to find out history for yourself even if it's already happened so go forth and do that I guess
THEY GET INVOLVED WITH COLIGNY????? THAT'S. HMM. UNWELL. MY GOD. ok.
While i don't know if Charles Preslin and Anne Chaplet were real, odds are the doctors advice to stay inside on the day of the massacre probably wouldn't have done jack shit, on account of how the whole thing started at night anyway, when most people (COLIGNY INCLUDED) were inside their houses and this did nothing to protect them. (You can find out more by looking up what happened to Coligny's corpse, but I do warn you it's not for the weak and particularly gruly and brutal.)
Anyway. Amboise is an interesting name to pick because it reminds me of the Amboise conspiracy, albeit that was in 1560 and the massacre itself in 1572. The Amboise conspiracy involved kidnapping the then 15 year old king Francis II. (Didn't work. )
Anyway, this is a more normal plot i guess if you can call it that? I mean as long as Steven isn't personally sneaking into the chambers of Marguerite de Valois, sister of the king, you're kind of in the clear ? It is however compelling to think of a better plot. I have 0 credentials and have never seen a single doctor who ep so I will not be doing that but I can provide some historical information.
the massacre is an all-timer of a doctor who serial. it's a historical, but it's specifically a historical about an event that the vast majority of viewers would be unfamiliar with. william hartnell is there twice but you'd never notice because the entire thing is missing. it has probably one of the greatest confrontations and speeches by both the doctor and his companion in doctor who history. the historical event in question is one of the bloodiest, most violent, most genuinely sickening in french history, and to be honest just history in general. steven suffers more in this one than he usually does, which is really saying something. the doctor just fucking abandons him in one of the most violent periods in french history. dodo is also there
#dear penny Anna whomst I am reblogging this from#I have been seeing posts about the massacre for years#I am not a doctor who fan.#I am a history nerd#Is this about St. Bartholomews day massacre?#Every fucking screenshot I've seen has that doctor guy and his entourage of young men dressed in late 16th century garb#First of all they are slaying but back on topic#What the hell happens. What do we know#Maybe I should correct something#Maybe I am not a doctor who fan. Yet.#I have been asking myself this question for a long time. Please. Anyone. Tell me if it is that masacre
yes, it's the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. you sometimes see the story referred to as 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'*
tragically there are not screenshots at all as it's a missing story w no visual record; the images you've seen are photographs taking during the dress rehearsal.
*(some 60s who stories have multiple titles in use)**
**(I think 'The Massacre' is generally preferred as the historical event is not called 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' on account of it took place on the day itself and not the eve but I think the title might actually be referring to the fact that the events take place on the eve of the massacre given that there is a pivotal scene where the Doctor realises the massacre is going to happen the following day but i digress)
the massacre is an all-timer of a doctor who serial. it's a historical, but it's specifically a historical about an event that the vast majority of viewers would be unfamiliar with. william hartnell is there twice but you'd never notice because the entire thing is missing. it has probably one of the greatest confrontations and speeches by both the doctor and his companion in doctor who history. the historical event in question is one of the bloodiest, most violent, most genuinely sickening in french history, and to be honest just history in general. steven suffers more in this one than he usually does, which is really saying something. the doctor just fucking abandons him in one of the most violent periods in french history. dodo is also there
Wait hold on what do we mean Gillenormand and Bolkonsky are the same guy
Thematically! not literally. Horrible old men who treat their daughters (and everyone else) caring for them like garbage, while angrily holding on to the memories of a perceived Glorious Youth instead of doing anything Now
i need every actor who has played monty to just spend an hour together in character. all of them, every cover and principal. put them all in a room, with a camera for our entertainment, and tell them not to break character. let chaos occur.
No one's doing it like actors playing Colonel Johnny Bevan . You're telling me the role is Strict British Officer, IAN FLEMING, Silly British Man in a red Hat and Passerby who says "No"? And you get to be a mean bitch? Hell yeah girl
hi, french speaker here. not super versed on hugo but i have found the 1972 version and the page numbers cited and it does seem to check out. page 521 specifically says "We are accustomed, here in 'Choses vues', to the secret vocabulary and writing of Victor Hugo. Certain phrases are still enigmatic, other have "keys", often simple. Thus, when Victor Hugo, talking about a conquest, writes "Switzerland", which is the country of milk, he means breasts. Sometimes he wrote, to describe the same thing, the saints or the torso." (my translation) it continues on with explaining more coded phrases. the other cited page (371) is a section of hugos diary where he refers to "very loud/strong knocking at my bedside". make of that what you will
thank you so much for the translation!! I'm going to append it to the post. I appreciate you!
this barricade day let's remember Évariste "got sent to jail for threatening to kill Louis Philippe" Galois, who absolutely would've also been at the barricade if he had not died on May 31st
(the jail part is real, the cause may be exaggerated. But my boy Galois is the intersection of Les Mis and mathematics and he had a somewhat mysterious and very tragic death, so I recommend looking into his life)
YES OH MY GOD I'm glad someone mentioned it!! I was unsure if the book I'd read about him ("Whom the Gods Love" by Leopold Infeld if anyone's curious) was being serious about this but I guess it was!!
Yeah Galois got sent to Sainte-Pélagie twice and had only been free for about a month when he died. Also no one knows where he's buried!
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