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Jess. 24. This is my secondary blog. Mostly Les Mis.

[kcrabb88]

Les Mis friends: what are some barricade survival AUs that you can think of? I’m struggling to remember some of the older ones. These are the ones that come to mind: 

Not Even Miracles by @everyonewasabird (In-progress and SO GREAT)

My two survival fics (Les Hommes de la Misericorde and Between the Soul and the Star. And I suppose my Hadestown/Les Mis AU counts?)

The Truth We Owe the Dead (isn’t that the one where just Combeferre survives?)

Was there one where it was just Enjolras and Grantaire?? I know there was at least one, but I can’t remember the title

There was another where Enjolras disappeared to America (was it Prayers to the sun and Whispers of rain, or something like that?) 

[lesamisheadcanons]

This is somewhat different, but does anyone remember the fic that was based on the quote “the 19th century is great, but the 20th century will be happy”?

It featured each of les amis experiencing a different sad part of the 20th century. They were having visions of what the 20th century would be like. At the end, Grantaire was in a history class and read all about the horrors of history in a textbook.

I can’t remember the title, and I’ve tried searching for it.

[nonasuch]

Courtesy of @fremedon, some exciting news for anyone in Les Miserables fandom!

[hippothebrave]

Concept: A crossover between Les Mis and A Picture of Dorian Gray...

…in which Enjolras is Dorian, and things go a bit differently.

From a conversation with @robininthelabyrinth in which we noted the remarkable similarities between fandom!Grantaire and Basil Hallward, and then things spiraled out from there.

More under the cut:

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[icallervera]

Aw! It’s so nice of Mattel to make us a set of modern au Les Amis Ken dolls!

[lonelyroommp3]

here’s my take on the matter

[kvothes]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

happy bastille day! witchboy grantaire has finally returned!

[thrill-of-first-love]

rb w the first bootleg you ever watched in the tags

[pilferingapples]

Other writers: “ They looked at her with disdain”  Hugo”They acted like the art in this cathedral that you have OF COURSE seen, also here’s a reference to a Bible verse, also here’s a Greek myth reference so now you really  get what I’m talking about, right” 

[gimme-that-pen-back]

Drink With Me

I don’t think that Grantaire’s solo in Drink With Me is actually as sad as one may think. There’s a strong juxtaposition between him singing about how they won’t be remembered and the reality of thousands of people commemorating their death. Perhaps the best example of this is George Blagden’s video: the words of the song are contradicted by the actual video, in which he returns to the site of the barricade almost two centuries later and has now been viewed by thousands of people. In other words, Grantaire’s solo is beautiful because he was wrong. Their deaths did mean something and almost two centuries later, the people who lost their lives in the June rebellion are still remembered. Because ultimately the June rebellion has been immortalised by Les Miserables, and I doubt anyone will ever forget it.  

[vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo]

I'm working on an intensive project on Charles Jeanne and the June Rebellion as a proposal for this Masters program I'm trying to get accepted into. Any ideas for sources I should look into? I own A Cinq Heures Nous Serons Morts, and have access to the trial transcript. I've also read "Barricades: War on the Streets in Revolutionary France."

Oooh! That sounds awesome :D Hope you get accepted! And definitely keep me updated on this project!

Okay so, I don’t actually have that many sources either? I mean you already have the most important ones. But I’ll list what I can think of here.

CONTEMPORARY SOURCES:

Louis Blanc’s The History of Ten Years 1830-1840 (1841)- Louis Blanc wasn’t an eye witness to the events but he was a contemporary- available online in French and in EnglishAntoine Rey-Dussueil’s Le Cloître de Saint-Méry (1832)- this is a work of fiction but it was published only months after the uprising and the appendices include actual eye witness testimonies, including an anonymous letter from Charles Jeanne, written while he was still on the run. (Jeanne’s letter starts on this page)- available online in French

@barricadeur also posted these police reports about the uprising and @ellie-valsin shared these newspaper sources. And of course Chanvrerie.net has a whole bunch of resources about the uprising. (I recommend Alexandre Dumas’s memoirs even if they don’t really talk about Jeanne directly.)

LATER SOURCES:

Thomas Bouchet’s other June Uprising book Le Roi et les barricades (2002) - criminally expensive but I managed to find it in my university library so it might not be that hard to track down?

Mark Traugott’s The Insurgent Barricade has some good stuff I think? Le Maitron Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français also has an article on Charles Jeanne and some of his comrades but I haven’t figured out how to access that yet so idk if how good it is….

Okay, I realise that these are all mostly about the uprising.For the prison resources… oh boy, I can’t even remember all the stuff I used in my posts. Much of it was just whatever I found online so I don’t know whether to really recommend those. I kind of hesitate to even link those posts here tbh because they’re really not reliable at all (or particularly well written). But well, you can fact check them yourself I guess, so here they are.

There’s also those letters I found on Ebay but I’d like to stress that I HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY’RE REAL. I’ve never seen any references to them anywhere.

Also if you need any map resources… well I have a whole another list of those :p

[godlessondheimite]

“Drink With Me” from Les Mis is the darkest version of cracking open a cold one with the boys.

[lesmisbuzwuzz]

“Surrender, brave Frenchmen!” Cambronne replied, “——.” {EDITOR’S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word “Merde!” in lieu of the —— above.}

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Cosette Book First Ch. XIV, Hapgood translation as seen on Project Gutenberg (via pilferingapples)

[deboracabral]

In which the ghosts of the Amis haunt Marius’ library.

[barricadeur]

PDF: The Times of London's full coverage of the June 1832 Paris Uprising

i humbly present: a digital download of every article in the times of london about the 1832 june uprising, from the 5th (the announcement of general lamarque’s death and upcoming funeral) to the 20th (accounts of the first trials of alleged conspirators and participants in the uprising).

DOWNLOAD HERE (pdf, 64 pages, 24 mb)

below the cut, i’ve put together some important contextual information: how the times gathered news on foreign events, what other events you’ll see mentioned, and the general editorial bias of the paper. 

i’ve also made a little summary of each day’s coverage, so that if you’re overwhelmed by the full package, you can focus on the bits that interest you.

anyway, i hope you guys enjoy it/find it helpful!

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[barricadeur]

bringing this back for barricade day 2k15!

[threadbaremillionaire]

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

[mizzerablyquotes]

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Vol 4, Book 10, Chapter 5

[just-french-me-up]

Enjoltaire FallenAngelAU HC that Grantaire has this tattooed on his body somewhere (because he liked the idea of a useless-but-for-a-single-use letter) and when Enj sees it he is very uncomfortable because a) why does the mortal have that does he KNOW?! and b) it’s kind of…intimate? Like it kind of makes it look like r….belongs?? with enjolras??? somehow??? like getting his mortal name would have been less personal than this (submitted by @she-s-a-shy-one)

Enjolras is legit so stressed? Like?? Out of all the tattoo designs Grantaire could have picked, this is the one he chose? Why? Did he figure it out? Did he figure Enjolras out? He can’t even imagine what happens to humans who figure out angels are walking in their midst! What if Grantaire gets smitten, gotten rid of because he knows too much? What if angels erase his memory?

“Your tattoo,” Enjolras asks once, trying to keep his voice steady, “what does it mean, why did you get it?”

Grantaire shrugs.

“It’s like the Cyrillic equivalent of the  👀 emoji I guess.”

[deboracabral]

A Combeferre thing because I really like this quote.