I WAS WAITING TO BE ASKED THIS QUESTION!!!
I have a full list prepared, anon.
Ahem. *clears voice* Here we go.
🥰✨️Why We Love Saint-Just✨️🥰
👉 He defied established traditional authorities from older men trying to keep him down to the literal king (also his mom)
👉 He changed the course of the Revolution with his speech(es) about the king
👉 He was absolutely brilliant, his speeches and theoretical works are amazing? (Also Organt is great Idc what you say and not enough people know Arlequin-Diogène or La Raison à la morne.)
👉 His self-reflection in the fragments and all the philosophical/political stuff??
👉 His views on friendship and the community of affections completely shattering nationalist ties to soil and blood rhetoric
👉 He was fiercely devoted to an ideal to the point of incarnating the sublime
👉 His devotion to his friends, not just Robespierre but also Couthon and Le Bas and Thuillier and Gateau etc. and Élisabeth Duplay-Le Bas. Even Villain d'Aubigny who yet turned on him.
👉 He was so kind to Élisabeth and Henriette on mission and treated them like capable adults (which Philippe was less good at lol)
👉 His work on missions was incredible but also can we talk about the Ventôse Decrees? And the fact HE WROTE A CONSTITUTION BEFORE TURNING TWENTY-SIX????
👉 His self-myth and the struggle with his mask and how it's hiding a vulnerable sensitive young man is just w o w
👉 He lived in a small village and lacked a lot of resources from money to books and everyone who's been there can relate
👉 He's like the patron saint to impatient overachieving youth
👉 Transmascs and lesbians love him because he definitely speaks to their experience of being queer and struggling with objectification and infantilization
👉 He defiantly told his executioners he was a STUDENT before the Revolution without any career
👉 He tried so hard??? He's so #relatable???
👉 He terrified the establishment then and now
👉 He pisses off SO MANY PEOPLE like Furet and Gueniffey and Schama and Mantel 🫶😈🥳
👉 He could have easily embraced tyranny and taken action against the Convention but he chose not to and to die instead
👉 His rage gives a voice to the abused and the oppressed and the scorned in the centuries and in the skies
👉 Alexa, play his anthem Welcome to the Black Parade
👉 Oh yeah and HE LOOKED LIKE THIS
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