#st. andre

[pisaliv08]

La Reunion

Von der Inselhauptstadt St. Denis aus La Reunion, die größere und gebirgigere Nachbarinsel von Mauritius, erkunden. Ein bunter Mix aus Ethnien und Religionen und eine imposante Vielzahl tropischer Flora, spektakuläre Talkessel, hohe Gipfel und Vulkanismus warten auf uns.

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Do you know what kind of government (was victorious)? …A government of the Convention. A government of passionate Jacobins in red bonnets, wearing rough woolen cloth, wooden shoes, who lived on simple bread and bad beer and went to sleep on mattresses laid on the floor of their meeting-halls, when they were too tired to wake and deliberate further. That is the kind of men who saved France. I was one of them, gentleman. And here, as in the apartments of the Emperor which I am about to enter, I glory in that fact.

Jean Bon St. André, a Jacobin member of the Committee of Public Safety who became on one Napoleon’s prefects. Quoted from Jean Savant’s Les Préfets De Napoléon (1958).