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[revolutionarywig]

Character clarification post

Because I have way too many AUs and to avoid confusions lol.

ROBESPIERRE: The actual historical figure from the French Revolution, 1758-1794. Not an OC, the literal historical guy. Yes I think he has a very special relationship with Saint-Just. Most of my drawings in the main blog are just historical Robespierre.

VAMPIRE ROBESPIERRE: I thought it would be cool if Robespierre was actually a vampire, since many historical commentaries compared him so. This turned into a side project where I made a zine (L' Archange et le Diable) about him. The whole historical context is still the same, I try to research and integrate the vampirism into the politics of the period. I am still continuing to develop this idea. I made many illustrations of him.

Here is a page from the zine also.

DND ROBESPIERRE: Dnd Robespierre has almost nothing to do with his original historical counterpart. He was literally about to get guillotined in the French Revolution then POOF he got teleported to faerun and he got turned into a vampire. The vampirism has completely gone to his brain he is fucked up and evil and gay gaslighter as hell. Here is the character reference sheet I made at the beginning of playing.

I tag him with the "dnd robespierre" tag

MODERN AU ROBESPIERRE: Just a silly reimaging if all the French Revolutionaries lived in the modern day France....No one dies in this AU at long last (realistically the Revolution still happened etc but like dont think too much about it), everyone sort of keeps their personalities.

I am trying to make a comic with Modern AU Robespierre, it makes references to many names of other French Revolutionaries but the story is very very different from the actual history. It's more slice of life i guess. (It's on pause rn lol i drew a lot of pages but I didn't like the direction, need more time to figure out)

MAXIME: I started playing Baldur's Gate 3 and for my first run, I tried to make Robespierre (DUH) as my Tav (custom character), but they don't have 18th century wig option so I thought okay modern au hair will also do, but then the face type I like only comes with the body type that has boobs. I played like that for a while and i just can't tolerate him with big naturals anymore so i downloaded a flat chest mod so congrats on the top surgery.

He's morally good....a little freaky.....romanced Astarion etc.....

EDWIN: Now onto the non-Robespierre related territory....Edwin was my dark urge run for Baldur's Gate 3. He has the Durge backstory. I imagine him and Tav (Maxime) travelled together for the whole BG3 plot line, but he ultimately chose chose to doom the world and betray the rest of the party including Maxime. He's very morally conflicted.

Outside of the horrors he is just the tisms hes just a little guy....

DND EDWIN: Everything comes back to DnD......So while DnD Robespierre is in jail, obviously it's time for me to play a different character so I decided to play Edwin. Except I can't really play an actual murder hobo in my DnD game so his backstory was modified. He is morally good, he still got the austismTM in him. He's kind of like a gay grandpa figure. Also a wild magic sorcerer.

Although occasionally, he does get the dark urge in him...

Okay I think that covers it all....or who knows maybe the list will get longer

[fluviusy]

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[revolutionarywig]

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[revolutionarywig]

2023 Sketch Zine - Smileyfaceorg's Ko-fi Shop

A collection of miscellaneous sketches, comics, and illustrations featuring the French Revolution, as well as Vampire Robespierre AU and Mod

Hi I am putting on sale the digital PDF version of my 2023 sketch zine to cover some expenses. It's 54 pages for 6 USD, it has a mix of normal Frev stuff, Modern AU, and vampire AU. Check it out if you are interested!

Additionally, the Volume 1 Vampire Robespierre zine is available on Ko-fi now. I stopped using Gumroad because of their new payout policy. As before, all proceeds from the Volume 1 sale will go towards the Palestinian Children Relief Fund.

L'Archange et le Diable Vol. I - Smileyfaceorg's Ko-fi Shop

A reimagination of the French Revolution, where its most prominent figure is unexpectedly transformed into the monstrous rumour told of him

[revolutionarywig]

art collab with @xiorc-0714 ! I did the colouring on this one and they did the line art

Sorry that this took me forever to color thanks for the patience asfhj

[dykecostanza-deactivated2024112]

okay youve made me a little obsessed with all the drama of robespierres personal life kejehrhek all i knew before was the gullotining did his brother gets long with the duplays?

bro he genuinely has the most fascinating personal life from start to finish i could talk about that shit for 600 years

but yeah augustin had no issue with the duplays and im pretty sure he lived in the rooms connected to their house until he died? he was the complete opposite of robespierre (super outgoing, opinionated, lady’s man, etc) which at times led robespierre - who who was always walking a fine line between being a brother and a parent to his siblings - to chide or scold him but they still got along incredibly well. augustin was also a deputy in the convention as well as a rep on mission with the armies. 

one of the coolest fucking things about augustin is that he dated this (married lmao) creole woman named madame de la saudraye who was extremely politically active to the point where she’d piss off a lot of the racist and misogynist jacobins by showing up to give speeches at the provincial clubs. in his letters to robespierre, augustin brings her up a bunch, asking robespierre to meet up with her in paris to get her opinions on the rev. at another point he wrote to robespierre:

“i wish that you would see citoyenne la saudraie [sic]; she will give you true information on all the plots which it is interesting to know in these circumstances.”

we don’t know if robespierre ever took augustin up on this offer but it would be cool as fucking hell if he did

[sieclesetcieux]

The only thing I'd change here is that, unfortunately, he didn't send multiple letters to Maximilien about her, but really only one, the one you quote from. It is, however, a very interesting story.

It took me days of research to find anything about her and, to begin with, her full name: Jeanne-Rosalie Guillodon de Tillet.

Ernest Hamel says she was the wife of "an academician named La Saudraye", most likely Charles-Joseph Lohier de la Saudraye.

Henriette Simon-Viennot, a 19th century woman historian, wrote an annex about her in her book about Marie-Antoinette.

She writes:

"Madame de la Saudraye, veuve d'un riche libraire, était une charmante créole de vingt à vingt-cinq ans, qui vouait sa vie à la pratique de ces vertus difficiles qui n'obtinennent que le mépris des hommes. Elle avait quitté ses nonchalantes et chères habitudes des colonies, elle avait compromis sa fortune, sa réputation et répudié un cercle choisi dont elle était l’idole, pour opposer son ardente charité aux fureurs de Robespierre aîné par l’ascendant du jeune Augustin sur cette âme sanguinaire."

She goes off on a weird anecdote about how La Saudraye interceded on Simon-Viennot's father behalf to Augustin in order to save him from the guillotine -- a rather typical anecdote attributed to many women close to French Revolutionary men.

Charles Nodier tells the story of how she was refused at the Jacobins' Club in Besançon:

"Citoyens, les règlements de notre société interdisent l’entrée de son enceinte aux femmes. Je suis marié, je suis père et je n’ai jamais amené ni ma fille, ni ma femme. Robespierre, qui n’est ni marié, ni père, y a amené une femme. Je demande qu’elle sorte, ou que le procès-verbal constate au moins qu’un républicain a protesté contre l’aristocratie de Robespierre."

Some people, like Albert Mathiez, have argued against the accuracy of the anecdote (because Nodier is, well, always weird when he recounts things which he reportedly witnessed at 13-14 years old), but it's a verified fact that Augustin had trouble in Besançon with Bernard de Saintes, a fellow representative on mission, and the man who denounced her at the club was one of his partisans.

Also, interesting to note: créole doesn't necessarily mean mixed, but their reaction can still be somewhat racist-adjacent. Even if they were born of white European parents, people born in the colonies were seen as "exotic". It fits well with the Robespierre brothers' habit of mingling with people outside of Artois, much to Charlotte's and Guffroy's affront. At that time, "race" was provincial as well. (Or it could mean "class", as in "the Aristocratic race".)

[sieclesetcieux]

Adding more to this, there are at least three pieces of archive available online that give her full identity:

- Pièce 1241: 25 thermidor an III, Documents relatifs à la vente des biens nationaux dans le district de Sens (département de l'Yonne), tome II, published by Charles Porée, p. 22-23.

- Transport de créance par M. Guyenot à Jeanne-Rosalie Guillodon de Tillet, veuve de Charles-Joseph Lohier de Lasaudraye (19 germinal an XI)

- Guillodon de Tillet, Jeanne. – Réponses pour Jeanne Guillodon de Tillet, veuve de Charles Lohier de la Saudraye contre Michel Poupet, négociant à La Rochelle (1800-1801)

[revolutionarywig]

content warning: gore

Excellency.

[revolutionarywig]

Saintspierre had two children now on my island. They are named Virtue and Terror.

….

So virtue without which terror is fatal-

[revolutionarywig]

Need artfight to be here so bad

[aramistinguette]

saint-just sketches from this week's lunch breaks

[revolutionarywig]

rewatched tekkonkinkreet in the theatre re-release and being reminded that i have a type and it hasn't changed

[edoutft]

These men. Again

[revolutionarywig]

i am today years old when i learned that Bernard Vinot is in fact still alive

idk why i thought otherwise oops

[citizentaleo]

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[revolutionarywig]

if i had a nickel for every time a French animation person tell me that they were descendants of Robespierre, Id have two nickels. Which is a lot already

I am struggling to believe them because which side could they come from? It definitely cant come from Maximilien, or if it did, ig that would fall under the illegitimate children (classic scarlet pimpernel plot). But I am also a bit skeptic to believe Villier’s account about Robespierre having a mistress, considering that he also said that Robespierre “treated her poorly” and that Robespierre also “has a bloodied pillowcase every day” or smthing (whatever that means)

Did Augustin leave any child? I know that he had a mistress… And not Charlotte too *gasp* unless its with Fouché secretly??

either way i think it would fall under the illegitimate children route? That or maybe François Robespierre or any of the previous Robespierres had siblings? i know that there was an article online of another person called Arlène Duquesne claiming to be Robespierre descendant as well but I am struggling to find the exact lineage

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 25

OMG we finally finished chapter 4 omgggg it only took over a year 😭 A friendly reminder that you can buy vol 1 of Incorruptible here, both the print version or a pdf if you want to pay whatever price you want for it~

Also...lol a comment @anotherhumaninthisworld made before, made me wanna add this:

I wanted to add all the ways they f*cked each other over to end up in their end situations but...there is no room. Guess I'll hafta draw it all out in the comic lmao

[revolutionarywig]

i need to accept the fact that im lactose intolerant and caffeine sensitive man…bro…the consequences to my actions…

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

hi!! i’m having to read schama’s ‘citizens’ for my history coursework (evaluating interpretations as to why the cps fell out) and there are some claims he makes that i don’t recognise, and i absolutely do not trust him to get things right, or represent things correctly, so could you please tell me if any of this has any basis or if he’s just making guesses and passing it off as fact 💀 schama also doesn’t cite his sources in the footnotes, there’s just one massive fuck off bibliography at the end which doesn’t help

did carnot ever say this about the supreme being?? and is there anything to suggest that he and prieur were specifically horrified by the lack of immunity?

what about this? i know that barere helped enforce the ventose decrees to appease sj (palmer discusses it), but was this offered to robespierre too, in exchange of stopping the denunciations?? and what about them fearing hanriot and sj staging a coup???

thank you so much lmao

To start off with Carnot and the Supreme Being, in Mémoires sur Carnot par son fils (1861), Hyppolite Carnot writes the following:

Carnot also openly expressed his displeasure with the way Robespierre seemed to be interpreting the decree of 18 Floréal. It has been recounted that after the Festival of the Supreme Being, where Robespierre had assumed the role of pontiff of the new cult, Carnot ironically placed a crown on his head. This seems entirely implausible to me, as such familiarity was quite out of character for him, and his hostility toward Robespierre had by then become fully apparent. What was even less in keeping with my father's spirit was to treat religious matters lightly. But the anecdote can paint a fairly accurate picture of the impression his colleague's theatrical displays made on him.

Hyppolite nevertheless follows this up with writing his father’s religious beliefs ”were in accordance with the new profession of faith,” citing an intervention made by him at the Convention on May 16 1794 where he is recorded to have stated that ”to deny the existence of the Supreme Being is to deny the existence of nature.”

As for any fears Prieur and Carnot might have had concerning the Law of 22 Prairial, I actually had trouble finding the two saying anything about the law at all, both in Hippolyte Carnot’s memoirs and the biographies Le Grand Carnot (1952) by Marcel Reinhard and Prieur de la Côte-d'Or (1946) by Georges Bouchard.

For the Ventôse decrees, on 4 thermidor (22 July 1794), we do find a CPS decree declaring those are to be implemented within three days. It is signed by several members of both the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, among them Saint-Just and Couthon. If this was done to ”appease” Robespierre and Saint-Just is not something I’ve found any contemporary source say outright. I think it is more likely this is an interpretation on the part of Palmer (who of course doesn’t cite sources either, I have no idea from where he gets the impression Barère in particular played a big role in getting the committees to go through with the decree on 4 thermidor) and Schama, based on the fact Robespierre is recorded to have shown up to the committee session the day right after this decree was penned down (according to the testimony of the CGS member Philippe Rühl, given on March 23 1795) after having boycotted them for several weeks, and the fact Billaud, Collot and Barère after the fact claimed Saint-Just and Robespierre had ”constantly pressured” the two committees to implement the ventôse decrees. (Réponse des membres des deux anciens Comités de salut public et de sûreté générale… (1795), page 46)

The part about Saint-Just and Hanriot I also view as Schama’s own interpretation of a fear the other committee members might have had, I don’t know of any source where such concerns are voiced. Do they exist, they would have most likely come into existence after Hanriot and Saint-Just were already dead, meaning we should treat them with a grain of salt regardless.