ten little bullets in my hand

Marianne AKA shinelikethunder, which is where I put everything that's not Les Mis and adjacent French history. [AO3 | Dreamwidth]

[tenlittlebullets]

I follow/reply from this blog but most of my activity is over on @shinelikethunder these days, so head on over there if you're looking for anything that isn’t Les Misérables brainrot.

If you’re looking for Charles Jeanne’s letter to his sister with an account of the June Rebellion, and my translation of it, check out the ‘à cinq heures nous serons tous morts’ tag from the beginning.

[louisa605]

Drink With Me

Please comment or repost If you like it TT

[claireverlasting]

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] go join my friends on the barricade

[oilan]

A little beyond the black corner of the alley and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which threw a broad shadow, in which he was himself buried, he perceived a light upon the pavement, a portion of the wineshop, and behind, a lamp twinkling in a kind of shapeless wall, and men crouching down with muskets on their knees. All this was within twenty yards of him. It was the interior of the barricade.

The houses on the right of the alley hid from him the rest of the wine-shop, the great barricade, and the flag.

Marius had but one step more to take.

Then the unhappy young man sat down upon a stone, folded his arms, and thought of his father...

...He saw civil war yawning like an abyss before him, and that in it he was about to fall.

-Tome IV, Book 13: Marius Enters the Shadow

[le-jardin-inculte]

"I repeat," the old man continued, "you've mentioned Louis XVII. I agree, let's weep together for all the innocent, all the martyrs, all the children, humble as well as mighty. I'm for that. But then, as I said, we must go further back than '93, and our tears must start before Louis XVII. I will weep for the children of kings with you if you will weep with me for the children of the people."

— Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

"I will weep for the children of kings with you if you will weep with me for the children of the people" slaps SO hard. get his ass old man.

[secretmellowblog]

Cute activities to do for Pride Month 🌈🏳️‍🌈:

Attend a parade!

Rip up paving stones to build a barricade!

Use guerilla tactics to counter the forces of the national guard!

Die in the radiance of the future and enter a tomb all flooded with the dawn!

[memories]

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 6/3/11, 7:25:54 PM.

[guelwaar]

statue of honoré de balzac as a seal made in the style of rodin by one of his haters to make fun of the real statue he made of balzac that the commissioning literary society rejected and made him pay them back for (1898)

[sirtobybelch]

cutest goth couple in 1830s paris

[clove-pinks]

Bourgeois, by Paul Gavarni, 1837. An Eighteen-Thirties man who has ditched his pants to go fishing, giving us a great look at his undergarments—just a shirt, and it looks like he has girded his loins a bit with it. He wears a broad-brimmed hat suitable for outdoorsy pursuits and his watch hangs where a fob pocket would normally be located.

His wife reading a book by Paul de Kock is a joke in itself. It's something like the 1830s France equivalent of reading a best-seller you bought in the airport: lowbrow and common.

[l832]

javert: are you going to kill me now? 🥺 enjolras: no. you're not worth the ammunition it would waste to kill you. javert (getting so hard he got nauseous): i need water

[jehans-flower-pot]

favorite tag ever. what a life i could be living

[fluentisonus]

lots going on in my drafts apparently

[scuttleton]

What English translation of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo would you recommend?

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Wilbour's

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Denny's

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Hapgood's

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Donougher's

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Rose's

I've read MORE than one translation & prefer Fahnestock/MacAfee's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Wilbour's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Denny's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Hapgood's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Donougher's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Rose's

I have read ONLY ONE translation & prefer Fahnestock/MacAfee's

Voting ended onApr 22

If you have any reasons for your vote, I'd love to hear em. My fate could be in your hands.

[cliffsecord]

Who up lezzing their miserables

[deadpanwalking]

What is characteristic of great geniuses is their faculty of generalizing and their power of creation. They create types, each of which epitomizes a class, and by doing so they enrich the consciousness of mankind. Don’t we believe that Don Quixote is as real as Caesar? Shakespeare is formidable in this regard. He was not a man, he was a continent; he contained whole crowds of great men, entire landscapes. Writers like him do not worry about style: they are powerful in spite of all their faults and because of them. When it comes to us, the little men, our value depends on finished execution. Hugo, in this century, will rout all his contemporaries, even though he is full of bad things: but what lung-power! What inspiration! I will risk a proposition here that I wouldn’t dare utter to anyone else: that very great men often write very badly—and bravo for them. To discover the art of form, one should go not to them but to writers of the second class (Horace, La Bruyère). It is essential to memorize the masters, idolize them, try to think like them, and then put them aside once and for all. To learn technique, it is more profitable to go to the erudite, the skillful. Adieu—I have been constantly interrupted while writing the above—it must lack common sense . . .

Gustave Flaubert, to Louise Colet, on September 25, 1852, from The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller

[letyourfantasiesunwind1]

Sketches from the original Les Miserables production in West End, Barbican, London 1985. Design by Andreane Neofitou.

- Javert -Marius

-Jean Valjean -Enjolras

-Marius and Cosette -Cosette

-Lovely ladies -Eponine

-Les Amis →  background: Joly, Bahorel, Courfeyrac, Lesgles foreground: Feuilly, Grantaire, Enjolras, Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire

"For me, it's never a matter of doing pretty costumes," said Neofitou. "I'm trying to bring a world--with period pieces, specifically, it's an alien world--to modern audiences, to make that world the present. I don't want to have a barrier between the audience and what's going on onstage. You have to make that costume so familiar, so real to that character, that the audience doesn't see the costumes, it sees the character. I'm trying to augment what the director is saying or the actor is doing," Neofitou says. When the emphasis of a character changes during rehearsals, which are frequently attended by the costume designer, "you do bend the costumes. The costumes are always fluid." (Andreane Neofitou for L. A. Times, 2001)