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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
Camille Desmoulins and Robespierre having an intense, chair-knocking discussion on a postcard.
the results came back: the doctor says the beating of my heart echoes the beating of the drums
saint-just sketches from this week's lunch breaks
Happy Barricade Day from George Blagden I guess
https://twitter.com/gblagden/status/739594821602545669
https://vimeo.com/169469516
(un)happy barricade day 💔
Epilogue
Happy Barricade Day! After all, June 6th is the day they made their sacrifice, so I’m not late, right?
The inspiration for this drawing came from the Toledo Cathedral—the sense of the heavens opening up, which also corresponds to the final song of Les Misérables, "Epilogue."
In the painting, I wanted to depict the scene Jean Valjean vaguely sees as he passes away. Fantine takes his hand, leading him toward heaven, while the Bishop stands beside him, illuminating the path behind. And in the background are those who fell during the battle.
The upward composition gives the feeling that their voices fade into the "valley of the light," reflecting their destiny of "climbing to the light." I wanted the darker surroundings to contrast with the light of heaven, showing that they now dwell in that place beyond—echoing the lyric, "We will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord."
Jehan loves playing the flute, so perhaps the "distant drums" are sounds he conjures.
Behind Valjean, there is a mural of women—intended to represent the "lovely ladies," along with little Gavroche and his sister Éponine above. These figures embody the suffering people of the earth, much like the lyrics of "Wretched of the Earth."
On the heavenly side of the mural are two elderly men: the Parliament G and Mabeuf. Finally, the little angels surrounding the Bishop are Gavroche’s younger brothers.
YES I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT CAMILLE WHO'S LAST NAME I HAVE PROMRLY FORGOTTEN HOW TO SPELL :D
[so I tried to answer and then it became this whole personal essay instead O__O I suppose one can always be fanciful and blame Camille for momentary possession]
Camille Desmoulins (and yes, he is Camille, for some reason, even though Robespierre is not Maximilien, nor Saint-Just is Antoine, and there are entirely too many Jean Pauls to find the right Marat among them; but Camille is Camille forever) is – was – a lawyer and a journalist and one of the key figures of the French Revolution, famous for his impassioned speech that led to the storming of the Bastille in 1789, written about in quite a few lovely posts by people much more seriously interested in and knowledgeable about this historical period than myself, and my beloved because of – well, because of his incendiary, scathing, often overblown, and sometimes downright brilliant pamphlets – because of staying true to freedom as he saw it (including clemency, including freedom of speech, including a very fair share of populism and naïveté, but hell it is worth learning French if only to memorize some of his words) – because my grandmother was a history teacher during a dictatorship.
Being a history teacher meant: lectures in a city left in ruins by the frontline having passed back and forth too many times to count; stealing carrot peels from the table after her better-off roommate decided to make a salad for herself, and eating them before she returned; family caught in the guerrilla war and narrowly escaping a deportation to Siberia; her brother imprisoned by the KGB for the crime of owning a radio; being told that there was no money to get a degree in anything but a certificate to teach elementary school; but she wanted to study history, and she wanted to learn French, and, smiling in the pictures with her perfectly coiffed hair, half-starved, defiant against her entire family, she did.
Being a history teacher meant: a strictly state-approved curriculum, but fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the French Revolution on the surface of it, and if she dedicated rather a lot of time to it, well, she was one of the best history teachers in her city; and if her husband, my grandfather, had decided to learn French too, while in hiding, for a year, during the war (and what were the reasons for hiding? some things you only learn many years later, from whispers), and couldn’t get a position in a university due to insufficient ideological purity, well, they met rather late in life, but lived together for more than fifty years. Being a history teacher meant Robespierre, and Danton, and Marat, and the ideals of a Revolution and the fear of Terror, and above all, the freedom of opinion that leads to immortality. (Do I agree with it all? But my grandparents’ house was perhaps the only place in my childhood where my agreement wasn’t required, even then). Being a history teacher meant sticking ideas in the gaps between words, so that her students would notice, and living for fifty years until she, too, got to see a dictatorship fall.
But now, being a grandma meant that July 14th was an important holiday to a degree that I didn’t understand how nobody else seemed to have heard of it in my elementary school, and being taught the first two stanzas of La Marseillaise in French and in translation, and being given Ninety-Three at much too young an age and informed that I was going to cry at the end, and Incorruptible as the epithet for Robespierre and the ideal to be attained, and Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and David’s Death of Marat somehow a part of a backdrop of what probably was a very unusual childhood, though it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, and Camille Desmoulins as that favorite of grandma's that she doesn’t even want to mention too often, nor too casually, as if not to stain the words.
It meant stories upon stories, during the times when history and story blended together, and a weird, awkward, bookish grandkid, of the type who decades afterwards falls headlong into the French Revolution in the middle of very real, very immediate hard times for liberty and harder choices that all of a sudden have to be made, and starts reading about Camille, exasperating, uncompromising, flawed, scared, courageous, firebrand Camille, and – well, reading Camille, one can sometimes believe that words can reach beyond the grave.
It is late for Camille's birthday, and I am on travel halfway across the world and with next to no reception; while Camille's picture stands on my desk at home as I write my own opinion pieces and white papers; and he deserves more than these few words, and my own birthday is coming up, and he has my heart.
Happy late birthday, Camille.
Robespierre the younger, taking his brother’s hand: I ask for an act of accusation against me also. I want to die with my brother. Lebas: Me too.
Session of 9 thermidor, as reported in the journal Le Républicain français, number 614 (July 30 1794)
Finding out the whole ”the blood of Danton chokes him” line is as good as apocryphal was compensated by this.
Enjolras has been permitting it for 191 slutty, slutty years
Update: Enjolras has been getting shot eight times to represent each member of Les Amis for 192 slutty, slutty years
Update: Enjolras has been dying with a smile that was not ended when the report was heard for 193 slutty, slutty years
Update: Enjolras has been pressing Grantaire's hand with a smile for 194 slutty, slutty years
you should NOT be at the club. you should be in the streets, june 5th, 1832, paris france. you should be building a barricade
Justice For Jordan Shaw
@justiceforjordanshaw's comprehensive post on this issue is here: Justice For Jordan Shaw
[Image protected with Glaze from the University of Chicago]
paris day one!!
the pantheon!!
(probably) saint-just
marat and carnot (?)
danton and robespierre :)
carnot’s tomb
danton themed EVERYTHING, plus his house
robespierre ft. a 0.5 and actually accurate information???
lucile and a TERRIFYING fouquier bust. why does he look Like That
and finally they were playing lrf in the conciergerie lmao
tomorrow i’m going to the louvre (help) and hopefully i’m gonna see the pavillon de flore, and the duplay house!!
Overworked myself and fell ill at the worst time ever, call me Maximilien Robespierre I guess
After a few feverish and unconscious days, I'm glad to say I live on
Overworked myself and fell ill at the worst time ever, call me Maximilien Robespierre I guess
#JusticeForJordanShaw
i’m making a post to talk about this with all the main information i feel is needed, so what’s happening to start? At the end of the month a new Les Misérables album is releasing, this recording is of the 40th Anniversary Cast from the WEST END. The cast listed are all entirely from the west end. Except for Jordan Shaw.
Instead Jordan has been replaced with a white actor, James Gish, now while i don’t want to place this blame onto Gish nor say anything against his performance, it’s INCREDIBLY disappointing and honestly ridiculous he’s the enjolras listed. James was NEVER at any of the 40th shows in the west end, the entire time it was Jordan Shaw playing in the role of Enjolras and he never missed a single day throughout the whole run. Jordan would’ve been there for whenever they decided to record, as even Killian Donnelly (Jean Valjean) said this was recorded live! They have INTENTIONALLY removed and replaced him.
[Cast List, Jordan Shaw’s name is nowhere listed despite the rest of the 40th Anniversary company being here] Cameron Mackintosh (The Producer of the musical) did an interview with WhatsOnStage where he’s said he’s decided to splice the two 40th anniversary shows (the west end and the arena tour) but the ONLY songs that have actually been switched are only songs where Jordan would be singing as enjolras. Doesn’t sound like a coincidence right?
This is clear discrimination against Jordan Shaw. The fact they have chosen to remove one of their black principals KNOWING fully well how much this role has meant to Jordan and many other people who take inspiration from him, as well as the fact Jordan has helped to pave the way for us to get more POC enjolras actors! And not to even mention the fact Shaw won an award! An award in the role of Enjolras! He won “Best Supporting Male Actor” ! And it is so incredibly rare for this role to even be recognised especially in this way! Ap surely this would be something they want to promote right? But no, they have chosen not to and instead replaced him. I can’t even begin to imagine how disappointing this must be for Jordan - to see everyone else you worked so hard with get to be apart of this album and seeing that you’ve been the only person cut.
The fact they believed that no one in the fandom would even notice jordan’s removal is incredibly disrespectful and disappointing to me, the fact they thought we would simply turn a blind eye is disgusting. So please, talk about this. Jordan deserves his talent to be recognised.
So what can we do?
Good question! Sadly there isn’t loads, but i don’t think that should stop or discourage us.
Leave comments on every official les mis post you see - and constantly! they have been consistently deleting comments with any mention of Jordan’s name as well as even turning off the comments which shows they know exactly what they’re doing.
Send emails! Talk about how disappointed you are in seeing Jordan being removed without any explanation as to why! You can email directly to cammack: [email protected] or you can email the distributors themselves: https://www.warnerclassics.com/contact
And if you’re feeling kind, maybe send Jordan a little message over on instagram! i’m sure he’d appreciate knowing we as a fandom support him and love his Enjolras (if you haven’t seen it, i’d recommend watching this performance from west end live!)