#revolution things

[liminalsimian]

……… “the newspaper Révolution de Paris, which journalist Camille Desmoulins enviously claimed had a print run of 200000 copies”

excuse my bad translation but this sentence was weird to begin with

[liminalsimian]

I checked out another French Revolution book when I was at the library the other day, and I’m barely past the foreword so I can’t say if it’s good yet. But. There’s an introductory chapter talking mostly about how no one can agree on the exact causes of this historical event, which is vaguely amusing.

I’m just so baffled because at one point it goes, “By now, most historians at least agree that you can’t attribute it all to a single cause” (paraphrased), and I … ?? Was that not obvious???

I'm not sure any instance of social change can be said to have had a single cause. That's the whole problem with the human race; there are always too many things going on at the same time, interfering with each other, escalating each other, canceling each other out …

[liminalsimian]

Fun fact: the flag of my state is basically the French flag rotated by 90 degrees. As a child I found this unfairly confusing, but on the plus side it made both of them stick in my memory better than most other flags once I’d finally got the hang of which was which. :P

[liminalsimian]

I think I may have found my favourite Robespierre quote:

“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."

[liminalsimian]

Book: On October 30, [the Committee of Public Safety] outlawed women's clubs [...]

Book: Next, Robespierre's persecutional zeal turned towards [...]

Me: B-but.

Me: I doubt he was the one who...?

Me: ...

Me: Oh great, now I gotta research this.

[liminalsimian]

Reading my French Revolution textbook like,

Poor constitution. :( It never even got a chance to shine