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[cheeri1yfrancis]

frev as tumblr textposts pt.1/?

[robespierres-secret-daughter]

"Gosh it's so hot lately I had trouble sleeping!I'll watch La Terreur et la Vertu to distract myself from that!"

[saintjustitude]

I think some people are genuinely incapable of understanding that Saint-Just holds multitudes because he was a real person. With the inner circle of the Robespierristes? He was a melancholic, sensitive young man. With the CSP and with the generals? He was a prideful, arrogant brat. And we love him that way because we think they deserve it. The show is beautiful, keep running circles around them and driving them mad.

You're confusing our refusal to judge him based on your arbitrary moral standards and to "punish him with the narrative" with believing he's a pure blameless innocent little angel. You're unable to see the third secret option: we genuinely adore Saint-Just being an insufferable, terrifyingly competent menace to Carnot, Collot, Billaud and Barère. We absolutely do not feel bad for the older CSP members constantly getting outmaneuvered or talked down to by a guy in his mid-twenties who acted like a diva.

This is one of my favorite Saint-Just depictions:

And he's clearly a Thermidorized version who acts like an arrogant little prick to Carnot. And it's fucking amazing. Because Carnot deserves to be bullied. The whole movie should be about Saint-Just bullying him tbh.

I mean, he's nonchalantly sitting on the fucking CSP table:

That's canon to me now.

This is my other favorite depiction of Saint-Just, where he's blinding Collot with the light reflection of his compact powder:

In another scene, he arrogantly shouts "BILLAUD" without even turning back to look at him and goes on with the equivalent of "what's wrong with your dumbass boyfriend?"

Look how terrified they are of him. Isn't this hilarious? He's incredible.

It's just that we happen to think that this is also accurate:

He's all those aspects.

I don't know in what world we denied that he was arrogant. Or "mean". Or rude. Or whatever. (I used to carry a whole synonym list of words like these to make myself feel better in the immediate aftermath of the worst period of my life. Call that an affirmation list. Why do you think I go by saintjustitude lol.) That's the whole point. We love his bossy, imperious, unyielding brat energy. We enjoy that he gave the entire Convention an ulcer and that he treated his political opponents like minor inconveniences or inept bureaucrats. We just don't think he should "pay" for it.

And if you're mad he went to the guillotine with his chin up and no karmic retribution, well... stay mad, I guess?

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

God, La Terreur et la Vertu is so good. So good. I just revisited part I, Danton, and oh, that bit at the end... If you know your history, then you know what's coming. And even more than that, seeing Jean Negroni's facial expression, you become convinced that Robespierre knows what's coming.

He's heartbroken, and he's terrified, and he's trying to stay strong for the Republic that he hopes against hope will survive, and for Saint-Just who reminds him, hand on his shoulder, of his duty to that Republic, and for his brother and Le Bas and Couthon and the Duplays and all his friends, but he's also filled with an existential dread that doesn't just encompass him and those he loves, but which extends to the continued existence of the Revolution itself.

[lemurious]

...when the days at work seem to never end, remember this scene and note that cps members slept 4 hours a night at most!

[windmilljackass]

désolé citoyens désolé

[pontmercii]

they're gay. they're actually portrayed as a gay couple.

[icybloodtigrss]

The big question for me this year: is this man going to take over my posts again?