Flo

Florent | he/him| Frev and 18th-century France Historian | PhD-ing | icon by kvsciuszko on ig

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long

[quoth-the-goblin-nevermore]

I saw this tag and

Literally in the first paragraph of Les Mis

[pilferingapples]

Aw c' mon, this is about long sentences, not power to Digress! Give him credit! for sentences like this:

[ID: two full screen screencaps of a sentence about Louis-Philippe, in French. The font size has been reduced to be comically small. It's still two full screencaps. It is also in French./end ID]

...yeah it goes on from there. Give Vic his due on Long Sentences XD

[revolutionary-catboy]

See, that's why I always say Victor Hugo is my homie. I, too, write elaborately long sentences unsuited to the English language, which my fans (academic supervisors) complain about.

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[somethingsawfuls]

Happy (kinda late) PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!

I did start this right before the beginning of June, but… I had lots of personal problems, so it did prohibit me from having energy to draw for a while 😭 but hey, I’m done now!

Maxime

(I had my boyfriend help me with the posing here and he sketched it for me, so, I thank him a lot for making my life a ton easier :3)

Aaand SJ!!!!!

[revolutionary-catboy]

these are so cool!!!

[revolutionary-catboy]

I had my first meeting with my PhD supervisor two days ago and it looks like I'll have to continue working on Rouen 😔✌️

I will still be working on republican culture across different social demographics... but only in Rouen and its sourrouding localities. He was very impressed with the manuscrit d'Horcholle that I had resdiscovered last year, after laying in wait for over a hundred years first at the municipal archives of Rouen, then at the departamental archives of the Seine-Maritime, only to find its way at some point to the Patrimoine Library in Rouen. I guess it is tru, that I've managed to accumulate a lot of knowledge and sources of the city, and that positioning my analysis on the national scale would be too broad and too long even for a PhD. Eh.

What made me look at it positively was my supervisor saying: "If you do this correctly, then by the end of your resesech you will have known every inhabitant of Rouen by name, and not a single one of them would have been able to even sneeze without you knowing." Lmao.

From other things, I will be probably doing (paid) seminars about the Frev for undergraduates, starting in September. So that's pretty cool, too.

In the meantime, I will be applying for a scholarship and trying to work out how to approach my research. The prons and cons of doing social history of the Frev:

Pros: Hardly anyone has been doing it since the 50s.

Cons: Hardly anyone has been doing it since the 50s.

[revolutionary-catboy]

(PDF) The Pedagogy of French Revolutionary Civic Festivals: A Case Study of Rouen

PDF | The civic festivals of the French Revolution were carefully orchestrated performances through which various agents of authority sought

Hey! Now that I've finally graduated and got my diploma, I'm finally sharing my Master's dissertation with you here on civic festivals in Revolutionary France (1790-1795) in the form of a case study of the Normand town Rouen. You can read it all or download it from my ResearchGate account, linked above. I hope you enjoy it!

Abstract

The civic festivals of the French Revolution were carefully orchestrated performances through which various agents of authority sought to introduce and ritualise selected political principles, while shaping a French national identity through the reconfiguration of collective memory. However, their pedagogical role was not uniform: the methods employed and the knowledge they aimed to disseminate varied according to the shifting events of the Revolution and the structures of power that organised them. Focusing on the Norman town of Rouen, this study examines revolutionary civic festivals as contested sites of political communication, public instruction, and identity formation at the local level. By situating Rouen's celebrations and commemorations within the broader historiography of revolutionary ritual and memory, it argues that the organisers of early civic festivals failed to contextualise their pedagogical aims adequately and to recognise that their effectiveness depended on careful negotiation between prescribed ideals, inherited traditions, and local cultural realities. The establishment of the Republic in September 1792, by contrast, and the subsequent emergence of a republican culture, created conditions for a more coherent civic pedagogy and the development of a genuine civic religion.

[revolutionary-catboy]

I got into a PhD programme in History!

For the next 4 years I'll be researching various French Revolutionary republican traditions, modes of conduct, and cultural manifestations among different social demographics as established by Sieyès ("classes of persons") in his Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État ? :))

[birdytaste]

L'Archange de la Terreur

[neirien-of-ennorath]

Citoyens, I present to you a revolutionary danse macabre and cephalophore Saintspierre. Happy Frev Halloween!

[revolutionarywig]

an autumnal gentleman

[vampire-chronicles]

The Vampire Lestat: 40th Anniversary Celebration

And Happy Halloween! 🎃

On October 31, 1985, Anne Rice published the second book in her Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat. It instantly became a fan favorite and is often considered the best of Rice's vampire novels.

This book continued Rice's empathetic vampire revolution, but took it further by introducing the first Rock Star Vampire in literature: the diva Lestat de Lioncourt. However, the story goes beyond a stage performance; it explores Lestat's life, his pains, fears, loves, and immortal experiences, as well as the beautiful turmoil of the Savage Garden.

With his flamboyant charisma and philosophical remarks, Lestat became one of the most popular vampires in the genre. Now, 40 years later, fans from different generations around the world have come together to celebrate this milestone in a big way and pay tribute to the book, character, and author we all dearly love.

@thechthonicherbalist

@onyourheartstrings

@revolutionary-catboy

@angstosaur

@iloustat

@elsag

@vampire-scripture

[revolutionary-catboy]

Thank you for offering me a chance to participate! :-)

[revolutionary-catboy]

A few weeks ago I submitted my Master's dissertation about the pedagogy and educational significance of French revolutionary civic festivals, on the example of the Norman town Rouen. Once it gets graded (hopefully positively) by my university, I'll share it on my ResearchGate account for everyone interested! Here's the abstract for now:

[janellefeng]

Based on the play Thermidor (1925) written by Stanisława Przybyszewska.

[janellefeng]

Resist, it is our duty.

[labrador44]

triumvirate doodle from a watercolor doodle (under cut) bc i miss them and th*rmidor is coming up way too soon

as i was sketching i realized that i drew max in the napoleon pose which is 😭😭😭 omfg so embarrassing i've been reading too much andrew roberts he's taking over my ass

[revolutionary-catboy]

This is literally the second thing that pops up when you search in google in Polish Przybyszewska's The Danton's Case

[revolutionary-catboy]

I spent last week at the Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime doing some research for my dissertation on civic revolutionary festivals in Rouen.

[revolutionary-catboy]

Lowkey crazy that after I will have written (and successfully, hopefully) my disertation, I will be one of the few historical experts ever to have lived on the revolutionary history of Rouen...