Virtue & Terror

Max | he/his/him | INTJ “The attribute of popular government in a revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror. Terror without virtue is fatal; virtue without terror is impotent.”

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When people ask how someone who followed Will Stancil on BlueSky could become a would-be assassin

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The drownings at Nantes (French: noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the drownings ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called “the national bathtub.”

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The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) by Jacques-Louis David, 1793 (not the compromised second draft)

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Vaximilien Robespierre

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France in 1814

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Robespierre rebukes Danton, 1794

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As a trained historian I can say with a mathematical certainty Robespierre would not have liked the Friday Beers account

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Camille Desmoulins: Please... just spare my wife... my beloved Lucille...

Robespierre: Sure

Saint-Just:

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My impression of the French revolutionary leaders based on Tumblr:

Robespierre: Loves birds Has a big dog Gets blamed for everything (including Hitler and Stalin) Lives with sisters (not his) Wears a powdered wig Ace/demi Loves SJ Saint-Just: Amazing hair (and he knows it) Youngest of them all   High cravat & earring Has a bad rep (wicked, evil, angel of death) Emo/goth Loves Robespierre Wrote self-insert smut as a teen

Desmoulins: Everybody calls him “Camille” Bi Hates SJ (it’s mutual) Adores his wife but flirts with everyone Journalist Woobified by novelists

Danton: Fuckboy Big & loud Speaks English Dudebro historians love him Exhumed and kissed his dead wife

Marat: You don’t want to mess with him

Did I get them right?

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J’approve.

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A clock strikes exactly midnight on 6 April 1793 when the Committee of Public Safety is formed

Robespierre:

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“Democracy perishes by two kinds of excess: the aristocracy of those who govern or the people's scorn for the authorities whom the people itself has established, scorn which makes each clique, each individual take over the public power and lead the people, through excessive disorders, to its destruction or to the power of one man.” — Maximilien Robespierre

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