Hi! This is my side blog that I relegate stuff that is mostly frev related to, my main blog is dawndrawssome. Previously my username for this account has been "historyisneat" and "mostlyfrevstuff".
I did these for an art class several years ago. The first is a painting of Sébastien Agius as Robespierre in Les Amants de la Bastille. The second is a collage of Denis Manuel as Saint Just in La Terreur et la Vertu.
Have you ever heard of the German musical "Barricade", which is based on the Les Misérables novel, but not the German translation of the Boublil/Schönberg musical?
No?
Well, there’s a reason for that, because it’s kind of really bad. But also: there isn’t a full English translation of it yet, which I decided to do something about!
"Barricade: Das Musical" is an adaptation of novel that is independent from the Boublil/Schönberg musical (though it is suspiciously Boublil/Schönberg shaped).
You can find the translation over here.
(A few years ago, I sent an earlier version of this translation into a Les Mis discord server. Please refer to this new one instead, it’s much better and not as (overtly) salty about how bad the musical is.)
> bottom left is Desmoulins, bottom right is St Just
> they decided to specifically cast Jean Negroni as Robespierre since he played him younger in la terreur et la vertu in 1964 and was considered The cultural Robespierre. Yeah he was getting old and he was even older when he played him again in 1989 during the Bicentenaire but the writers wouldn’t find anyone more fitting and I guess the public was also attached to him somehow)
How to search for a specific document on the French National Archives website?
I'm going to use this post by @montagnarde1793 as an example because it's very convenient for me: she perfectly noted the archive's class mark and she chose a document that requires going through several files.
Here we have a letter from the Comité de Salut Public by Barère, Prieur de la Côte d'Or and Billaud-Varenne and adressed to Prieur de la Marne. The details are as follows:
There is a lot of informations. They have to be decoded one by one. For now, only those details are important :
"AN" means "Archives Nationales". So the virtual reading room of the Archives Nationales is the most suitable website to conduct researches if you live far away from Paris and cannot go directly. This is what their home page is supposed to look like.
Okay now, remember the following numbers provided by montagnarde1793 right after the "AN" ? "AF II 37" ? This is the archive's class mark, its identity card. Now, we are going to use it.
Now, we see that that we put the right number and it is giving us the following information : the letter comes indeed from an archival fund produced by the Comité de Salut Public, it is stored in Saint-Denis, and it is available to be "Reserved" or "Added to the class marks cart". For now, we ignore those. We only click on the number.
And here appears a problem: the number exists twice, in two different places. I started by looking at the first fund, but it soon became clear that it didn't contain what I was looking for (here, the AF/II/37 call mark referred to naval affairs, which doesn't correspond to the document published by montagnarde1793), so the right link must be the second one.
So we click on the second link and we end up on this page.
We don't care about the general presentation of the fund because we are searching for a specific item so we directly go to dig into the details.
Okay. We know we have to click on the last link titled "Comité de Salut public. Cartons." because we already know the letter we are looking for is a CSP document and AF/II/37 is obviously somewhere between AF/II/20 and AF/II/42. And now we keep searching for AF/II/37 until we find it.
Now, remember the informations provided by montagnarde1793 ? The rest of the numbers is finally going to be useful.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,, yes this is apparently Robespierre. ALL Robespierre. No one else it's just a bunch Robespierres in every one of my artstyles (I have 21 artstyles. Yes I drew all these. ALL OF THESE)
Okay, so sadly I couldn't find the film anywhere, but here's the cast:
Director: Gergely Horváth
Screenwriter: Gergely Horváth
Cinematographer: György Czabarka
Cast:
Péter Haumann - Danton
Tamás Jordán - Robespierre
László Gállfi - Desmoulins
László Szacsvay - Saint-Just
Péter Balázs
Géza Balkay
Ferenc Bencze
István Bozóky
László Helyey
László Horesnyi
Róbert Koltai
Tibor Kristóf
Kati Lázár
Vera Pap
Zoltán Sárközy
József Székhelyi
Miklós Tolnai
Zoltán Tímár
Here are some photos of the actors playing the four confirmed roles, which were taken approximately in the correct time:
Péter Haumann (Danton)
Tamás Jordán (Robespierre)
László Gállfi (Desmoulins)
László Szacsvay (Saint-Just)
The film was definitely broadcasted on TV between 2000-2012, as I've found a titlescreen:
Unfortunatelly this chanel has no archive to search trough :(
@mostlyfrevstuff so i just watched the documentary. I shouldn't be surprised that it was bad, but, for some reason, i always hope that there will be a good frev documentary.. The first part of documentary was.. okay, but when it comes to the period of 1792-94, it was bad. They didn't mention some important events like: Champ de Mars massacre or Marats death, etc. They actually haven't mentioned any other revolutionary except for Robespierre (ofc 😒). I mean, it's not very different from any other frev documentary honestly. Robespierre is presented as the only person who decided on the faith of Louis and Marie Antoinette and also they said that Robespierre advocated for republic since 1789. (as far as i know he was for constitutional monarchy until 1791.). Robespierre is OF COURSE the president of CPS (they said: Robespierre's committee). So just a lot of Thermidorian propaganda: he made his religion and his own chruch and also a new calendar (AS HE WAS THE ONLY REVOLUTIONARY). I really hate when they show frev to be: Royal family vs Robespierre. They also said this nonsense: „In june 1794. Robespierre becomes a first president of National convention.” (what does that even mean????).
Of course there are more mistakes, for example, they said that Guillotin invented guillotine, and when they were talking about Marie Antoinettes trial, and about accusations of incest, of course they didn't mention who made that accusation, and it sounded like every revolutionary just agreed on that.
That's basically it, you don't have to watch it.
And this is Robespierre. He's not even bad tbh, he's young at least. They got the age and appearance right if nothing else.
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