Historical sillies, my beloveds

| ♀️🇭🇺adult | Just rebranded my blog to my shameless hobby of fangirling over history | Here to have fun | Currently obsessing over French history .....................................................................

[holly-warbs]

Sketchbook drawing from a moment in Verőce, Hungary.

[pukpalak]

😺🇭🇺❤️

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“Don’t be alarmed. The majority of the Convention is pure; I have nothing to fear.”

— Maximilien Robespierre’s last words to the Duplays on the morning of 9 Thermidor (via viverobespierre)

[bunniesandbeheadings]

[pukpalak]

"listen to your gut"

Me when I listen to my gut:

[bonebeautyart]

“Uh, I don't understand why Robespierre was so paranoid.”

Average day in the Comitee:

[sieclesetcieux]

Reminder that the 10 thermidor was only the beginning of a purge that ended with 105 persons executed in three days and hundreds more arrested. Some committed suicide or were poisoned in jail.

The Commune was almost entirely purged:

there were 140 members on the general council on 9 thermidor

87 were guillotined

40 imprisoned

only 13 remained free

On 11 thermidor, twelve tumbrils carried 71 people to be executed. Here are their names. 12 more people were guillotined on 12 thermidor. Remember this when you read the traitorous CSP members tell you they did this to "prevent bloodshed" - when the execution toll on 11 thermidor was the biggest in one day ever.

Four months later in November the Club des Jacobins would be attacked by a right-wing militia led by Fréron, who broke the windows and doors down, beat the men, and stripped and whipped the women who were there. These women were ridiculed in crass pamphlets the following days. A deputy's wife was among them, whom Fréron had been personally targetting in his rag for weeks. The Convention punished no one but the Jacobins themselves by ordering the Club to be shut down and destroyed. A market was later built there and named to celebrate Thermidor.

The terrible winter came where tons of people starved because the new useless government of corrupt fiends lifted all regulations to "free" the market. This is the winter where Victor Hugo wrote Jean Valjean stealing bread to feed his sister's children. It's not a coincidence.

Less than a year later, in May 1795, the sans-culottes would rise for the last time in an insurrection that was utterly crushed and, with it, the popular spring of the Revolution.

The Revolution had been dying. It was now truly dead.

The next years were just a corpse they pretended was still alive.

[sieclesetcieux]

The links to the ARBR were broken so I updated them. One still didn't work though, so I linked to an archive dot org version.

These links have all the names and short biographies of the victims of 10, 11 and 12 thermidor.

[bitchinstitchgift]

One of my favorite golden hour moments I’ve ever caught on camera. A great 13 seconds of calm and relaxation that I love coming back to

[depr4vity]

Has anyone ever looked into why Sade was like that? Was he just born that way or like did something happen to him or what....?

[pukpalak]

I did !! There are several biographies of him that are available on the Internet Archive for free. I couldn't find my personal favourite, but At home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix is great as well.

(My fav biography is titled Sade and since I didn't favourite it, I can't find it. All the results that come up are about that singer 🫩)

But to answer your other question: He wasn't born like that. He is the textbook case of the abused will become the abuser if he does not receive help. Once you know this about him, reading his novels gain a new, sad layer imo

This doesn't not excuse his debauched acts and opinions ofc don't get me worng

[daciancatamite]

idk i just love the idea of a king on his knees wholly committed to pleasuring someone. crown stays ON ofc

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[mothincrypt]

Quick sketch of Couthon, why not. Btw, I love him so much🥹

[wereokarentwemoony]

In light of the Odyssey movie coming out this is my formal PSA that Helen of Troy is actually Helen of Sparta, Troy is the city she was stolen and brought to. The entire Trojan war is the Greeks trying to get her back from Troy, because she is from Sparta. I feel like we all collectively forget this.

[mozslvt]

PSA: She is neither Helen of Troy nor Helen of Sparta, in Greek memory she is simply "Beautiful Helen" (Ωραία Ελένη), this is an entirely English issue because apparently a woman has to be tied to who owns her at the moment and not her own attributes and the entire fucking point of her character

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me

[armpits-are-crying]

nope. funkytown again

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

come on

[marquis-de-sade-official]

—Protests the Marquis on his way to Charenton.

[le-vieux-cordelier]

Plush Camille makes an appearance!

He says overthrow tyrannical governments and challenge authority, always plus free the press!

[pukpalak]

Such an adorable little guy omg

[vonjeralekvonltuka]

(ノ_<。) my old art...!!!

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[midnightinshadow]

[neverlvnd]

X

[aggressivelyanalysingeverything]

posting this before i talk myself out of it. may i be cringe but free ( inspired by the ones @cheeri1yfrancis did because they were absolutely hilarious! )