feeling my oath

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Robespierre the younger, taking his brother’s hand: I ask for an act of accusation against me also. I want to die with my brother. Lebas: Me too.

Session of 9 thermidor, as reported in the journal Le Républicain français, number 614 (July 30 1794)

Finding out the whole ”the blood of Danton chokes him” line is as good as apocryphal was compensated by this.

[robespapier]

Today is the day of the tilleul, so here's my town's liberty tree, planted in 1989 for the bicentennary of the Revolution, that also happens to be a tileul; a popular choice for liberty trees, like le tilleul de Pérouges, which is from 1792 !!

Only posting close up pictures, I don't want my town to be recognisable for privacy reasons.

[tierseta]

Collot was just described walking in with a small golden earring, copper skin tone, confident despite being on the short side, the MC seems a little horny for him as well? in this novel I’m reading (Les Onze by Pierre Michon) and now i’m fully ready to overlook the excessive prose and Robespierre slander that has been constant throughout the first half

[tierseta]

also Collot being tipsy when they meet again… nice…

[aramistinguette]

Fernig sisters

[aedislumen]

real.

[tierseta]

Collot was just described walking in with a small golden earring, copper skin tone, confident despite being on the short side, the MC seems a little horny for him as well? in this novel I’m reading (Les Onze by Pierre Michon) and now i’m fully ready to overlook the excessive prose and Robespierre slander that has been constant throughout the first half

[secondjulia]

I can't get over Max ruling France with a flick of the wrist

"DISMISSED!" (I guess his hands are full)

Bonus stalking tiger Max:

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)

If he could shoo people off to the guillotine with a wave of his hand, Brissot's head would've fallen before the monarchy

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

I love the way that the Anglophone Myth of Robespierre has him - within four years of the outbreak of revolution, and in the midst of foreign and civil wars - able to wield the kind of power that literally every king up to Louis XVI could only dream of.

[betazoidgiftbox]

[cheeri1yfrancis]

frev as tumblr textposts pt.1/?

[tierseta]

Happy Birthday Goujon!!!

[tierseta]

one time i went to the jacobin club with a friend and Robespierre was absent and i joked to my friend “i might as well go home then” but she took it seriously and said “you’re exactly what’s wrong with the jacobins. it’s all about the Montagnards and Robespierre with you guys” anyway we haven’t spoken since and it turns out she was having an affair with a girondin deputy this whole time

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[tierseta]

no way… Paul Barras action figure

[tierseta]

Hello everyone! Today is the day of our watch party of the Dantonists Trial Danton (1931) ! Access the watch room for Danton from this link

We'll start the movie at 9:05am Paris Time to give people the time to join and say hello. See you there!!!

[tierseta]

Let me know if you run into some kind of issue when trying to get in, the room is open to everyone and chat is now live!

[tierseta]

Hello everyone! Today is the day of our watch party of the Dantonists Trial Danton (1931) ! Access the watch room for Danton from this link

We'll start the movie at 9:05am Paris Time to give people the time to join and say hello. See you there!!!

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Robespierre talked to Desmoulins and Danton hours before their arrest?

A strange thing has been said, that Robespierre and Danton a few hours before the arrest of the latter had spoken and embraced each other, even though Robespierre had already decided on his fate, and the latter the next day had planned to deliver a big motion against the former at the Convention. Götheborgs Allehanda, number 32 (April 23 1794), page 1.

Looking through his bars, he (Danton) said many things that he might not have meant. […] Here are some phrases I retained: […] ”What proves Robespierre is a Nero, is that he never spoke as kindly to Desmoulins as on the day before his arrest.”  Mémoires d’un detenu pour servir à l’histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre (1794-1795) by Honoré Riouffe, page 88.

[Robespierre] had pressed the hand of Camille, his childhood friend, the same day he signed his arrest. Fréron’s notes on Robespierre, meant as material for Courtois to use in his Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée de l'examen des papiers trouvés chez Robespierre et ses complices(presented to the Convention in July 1795). This particular claim was however never included there, and the notes themselves were seemingly not published until 1828, in Papiers inédits trouvés chez Robespierre, Saint-Just, Payan, etc, supprimés ou omis par Courtois, volume 1, page 158-159.

It is said that Danton was thrown off his guard by Robespierre’s friendliness towards him just before his arrest. Riouffe, a fellowprisoner, wrote that he heard Danton say as much when he was in gaol. Courtois told the same story and it was repeated by Desmoulins, if we can believe the well-informed contemporary pamphlet, The trial and punishment of Camille Desmoulins. Danton (1978) by Norman Hampson, page 161. I unfortunately can’t find so much as a mention of this pamphlet Hampson is talking about. He cites ”Archives Nationales, AD 1 108” as the source for it.

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Revolutionaries that encountered each other before the revolution compilation

Comment if there was anything that surprised you! 🙃🫢

Sources:

For the college relationships between Robespierre, Desmoulins, Suleau and Fréron, see this post.

For Robespierre welcoming Louise de Kéralio to the Academy of Arras, see Un inédit de Robespierre: Sa réponse au discours de réception de Mademoiselle de Kéralio 18 avril 1787 (1974) by Léon Berthe.

For the relationship between Robespierre and Carnot pre-revolution, see this post.

For the relationship between Robespierre and Fouché pre-revolution, see this post.

For the relationship between Robespierre and Guffroy pre-revolution, see Censure républicaine, ou, Lettre d’A-B-J Guffroy, répresentant du peuple (1794), page 66: ”Robespierre the elder must remember my firmness when, both working as judges in the episcopal hall of Arras, we condemned an assassin to death. He must remember, it seems to me, our philosophical and philanthropic debates, and even that it cost him much more than me to resolve to sign the sentence.”

For Fréron’s father Élie Fréron praising one of Collot d’Herbois’ plays, see this post.

For the relationship between Desmoulins and Charles Lambrechts, see a letter to the former from the latter dated September 12 1781, cited in Camille et Lucile Desmoulins: un rêve de république (2018) page 28-29: ”[Your successes make me encourage you] to make the final efforts to overcome the small natural defect of which you complain, and which must embarrass you much more in France than it would embarrass you in this country, where people hardly plead verbally, and where in all genres people look much more at the substance than at the form; I urge you, however, not to be discouraged on this side and I dare to predict that with constancy you will overcome all obstacles; you will imitate Demosthenes in this.”

For the relationship between Desmoulins and Lucile Duplessis’ mother, see this post.

For Lucile Desmoulins and Sylvain Maréchal’s relationship, see Lucile’s diary from 1788.

For Hérault de Séchelles and Michel Lepeletier being childhood friends, see the Convention session of December 29 1793 (Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel, number 100, page 404), during which Hérault is recorded to have said: ”I who, in the world, have never had more than one close friend since the age of six. Here he is! Michel Lepeletier, oh you from whom I have never parted, you whose virtue was my model, you who like me was the target of parliamentary hatred, happy martyr!”

For Billaud-Varennes serving as Danton’s secretary in 1787, see Billaud-Varenne, membre du Comité de salut public: mémoires inédits et correspondance (1893) page 21. See also Notes de Topino-Lebrun, juré au Tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris sur le procès de Danton et sur Fouquier-Tinville (1875) page 19, according to which Danton during his trial would have stated: ”Billaud-Varennes doesn’t forgive me for having been my secretary.”

For Brissot and Pétion being childhood friends, see Discours de Jérôme Pétion sur l’accusation intentée contre Maximilien Robespierre (1792) page 16: ”I’ve known [Brissot] since his childhood. I’ve seen him in these moments where the soul completely shows itself.”

For Barbaroux taking an optics course under Marat, see Mémoires inédits de Charles Barbaroux, député a la Convention nationale (1822), page 57.

For Brissot and Marat’s relationship pre-revolution, see Mémoires de Brissot, volume 1, page 346-361, as well as a letter from Brissot to Marat dated June 6 1782 and a letter from Marat to Brissot dated 1783.

For Brissot’s relationship with the Rolands pre-revolution, see a letter from Brissot to M. Roland dated June 24 1787, and an undated one from Brissot to Mme Roland, as well as Mémoires de Madame Roland, volume 2, page 358.

For the relationship between Brissot, Clavière and Mirabeau, see Mémoires de Brissot, volume 2, page 23-24 and 28-33, as well as a letters from Mirabeau to Brissot dated 11 August 1783 and 15 July 1786and a letter from Brissot to Mirabeau dated July 1786.

For the relationship between Brissot and Lafayette, see a letter from Lafayette to Washington in favor of Brissot dated May 25 1788, and number 659 (May 29 1791) of Brissot’s journal Le Patriote Français: ”I saw Lafayette before the revolution.”

For the relationship between Madame de Genlis and Brissot, see Mémoires inédites de Madame la comptesse de Genlis, volume 4, page 106-110, as well as this letter dated June 1783 from Félicité Brissot to Félicité Genlis.

For Condorcet objecting to Brissot’s imprisonment in the Bastille in 1784, see Mémoires de Brissot, volume 1, page 348: ”I owed my freedom also to the warmth of a few precious friends who offered to vouch for me at the price of their own liberty; I also owed it to the almost universal outcry from men of letters, even those I scarcely knew at the time, who, convinced of the austerity of my principles and morals, denounced as slander the composition of the pamphlets attributed to me and loudly demanded the end of my captivity. Thus, not only did the friends I mentioned in these memoirs give me proof of their devotion, but I also received marks of interest from a host of other people who were then almost strangers to me, such as Condorcet, with whom I have since had so many honorable relations.”

For Brissot and Gabriel Vaugeois being college comrades, see Mémoires de Brissot, volume 1, page 34: ”I have yet not spoken of Vaugeois, he was one of my college comrades, who had de la solidité dans l’esprit and love for the sciences.”

For the relationship between Prieur de la Côte d’Or and Guyton-Morveau, see Prieur de la Côte d’Or(1946) by Georges Bouchard, page 54, 62.

For Laclos critizicing Carnot’s work Éloge à Vauban, see Lettre à MM. de l'Académie françoise, sur l'éloge de M. le maréchal de Vauban, proposé pour sujet du prix d'éloquence de l'année 1787