#couthon

[neirien-of-ennorath]

made this because I kept thinking, woa how dramatically emotional Couthon moves around in his wheelchair, like in every movie. what an active wheelchair user!

[somethingsawfuls]

The Triumvirate chibis :000 my favorite polycule :00 (also this is my first time drawing Couthon, let alone a wheelchair… my fault if anything looks fucked loll)

They will be keychains .. so marketable and cute..

[citizentaleo]

Saint-Just and Couthon working together 😊

[historicalshroe]

Saint-just, Couthon, and Robespierre the throuple awww.. I imagine their ship name would be too long... corobesjust, saintrobesthon robescojust idfk

And uncoloured version

[thearchangelofterror]

do you think their menstrual cycles ever synced up?

[vendemiairism]

"Robespierre did not act alone but alongside Saint-Just and Couthon…"

There were nine other members of the CPS who were not named Robespierre, Saint-Just or Couthon, and for some reason this French Rev school course has an aversion to naming them or putting any blame for the Terror on them.

[yourhelenwolf]

Illustrations from "Histoire des Montagnards" by Alphonse Esquiros (1849).

[lemurious]

There are some people who at first glance appear to stand just on the side of the legends; who tend to slip between the pages of fiction and merge into the background of movie scenes; whose names are forever preceded by an "and".

Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon.

There are glimpses - of friendship; of kindness, so rare in times of war; of clemency...

"The reader <...> may have heard that the crippled Couthon was one of the most bloodthirsty of the Twelve. But the fact is that during his mission not one person was executed by revolutionary justice in Puy-de-Dôme. Couthon possessed the power of life and death. Puy-de-Dôme seethed with disaffection. Yet the terrible power remained unused. Where the conscription in May had led to half a dozen executions, in September Couthon carried the Levy in Mass with none."

(Twelve Who Ruled, R.R. Palmer)

...of leaving the command rather than razing a city; of indefatigable conviction and determination and an iron will that is inferred more than demonstrated; of familiar affection and dry humor. Of a final choice, to be condemned rather than stand on the sidelines and watch the republic be lost.

There are some people who, through fate or accident, are only casually mentioned in legends - but without them, the legends would fail.

Happy birthday, Couthon.