#storming of bastille

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible chap 2 pt 16

Leaf Boy makes his epic speech <3

[isthecamillecute]

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY

Cheers! The symbolic start of the revolution! Hooray!

Be happy, for today is the anniversary of the most important thing to all Camilles: the magical, beautiful, great, epic, 14th of July.

We are patriotism-ing! We are making the king lose his shit! We are stealing guns! We are leading the people trought liberty! How cool is that?

For Camilles, it's the coolest.

Today is the one day he will go out all by himself (they grow up soooo fast🥲) take two pistols and a bayonet rifle, and meet his friends there. (ami du peuple spoiler alert?)

Dont forget to tell your Camille you are proud of him at the end of the day! He will be extremely tired when he comes back from his hangout.

WARNING: if today your Camille asks you something before he is settled down, just say "Liberté" (it is really the only thing he will be thinking about for the next 24 hours). If you panic, the word "revolt" works too.

#235yearsalready??????

[ravewing]

happy bastille day everypony😁☝️

[foodstamped]

Had this come into my work today, what the fuck did he do. Why is he smiling.....

[dewapain]

I was absolutny stunned, when I saw Les Miserables at the Olympics opening ceremony, but Gojira + Marina Viotti combo made me cry out in ecstasy.

Gojira vs. 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games (feat. Marina Viotti)

[yourmoodboards-areonfiirree]

XI, The Rebel 𖤐

𖤐The Black Tarot𖤐

[jhoca]

I just finished watching The Rose of Versailles (1979-80), a historical drama + queer-coded anime about a female commander named Oscar who serves as Royal Guard to Marie Antoinette leading up to the French Revolution, and basically it's the closest thing to an anime of the French Revolution (that I know of). This article does a nice job discussing the nuance of the different female characters (with good screenshots)!

A lot of historical figures make an appearance, and I was hoping for Lafayette - and he does show up (in episode 35)! I couldn't stop laughing. He's only a year older than Robespierre, but for some reason Robespierre looks all smooth and sparkly, while Lafayette... it's hard to find screenshots, but this video shows the historical figures and their counterparts side by side here!

[rhaenyrathecruell]

Trying to explain the details of the French Revolution to people on TikTok is like trying to pull out your eyes from the socket and still see out of them.

[endofthelinecaptain]

Seasons & Narcissus from the new Bastille album is THE Dorian/Dorym song for me rn

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible chap 2 pt 17

Was really torn on how to tackle drawing so many ppl whilst keeping my sanity in tact. But when it comes down to it, it was an important collective moment and I wanted to get across the energy of so many people coming together, so it felt right to draw and colour everyone individually (even though it took AGES lmao)

[illustratus]

The Storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor Marquis de Launay, 14 July, 1789

[lucy-the-cat]

Cal is Happier by Bastille and Marshmallow and Maven is happier by Olivia Rodrigo

[ruffsketch]

Had some leftover cookie-decorating supplies from Easter. Don’t mind the stray sprinkles.

[terrainofheartfelt]

the thing that is really getting me with the wga/sag-aftra strike, and the corporate greed that brought us all to this place, is that for my entire life, as someone who has always wanted to be an artist of some kind, the conventional wisdom is that becoming an artist means resigning yourself to a life of poverty and forfeiting a future that allows you to live in basic dignity and human comfort.

and isn't that so fucked? that the unspoken thing about working in the arts is that because you chose it over something else, you don't deserve to live comfortably? because, why, you didn't choose to be a business major? or didn't choose to be generationally wealthy?

except it's not unspoken anymore, because artists are asking to be compensated adequately for their work, and studio execs are saying that they will wait to starve them out like fucking 14th century serfs. because that's what you get for not being corporately savvy enough to choose a vocation in the arts.

I'm just, I'm really tired of talking around the issue in every circle, which at the heart is this: there is one side that says every human being, no matter their field of expertise or age or stage in their career, deserves to live in dignity and not poverty, and the other side is saying that for the sake of their own near-sighted comfort, an unquantifiable number of people deserve to suffer. and i'm really tired of the fallacy that's been fed to me all my life that I can either be an artist, or live with the basic dignity of a home and meals and healthcare.

anyway. yes strikes yes unions fuck the amptp xoxoxoxoxo

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Is there a list of frev figures who claimed to be at the storming of the Bastille? The people I know who said they at least witnessed it is pretty eclectic like Herault, Léon and Saint-Just.

I found all the (official?) ”vainqueurs de la Bastille” listed in alfabethical order here (1889). However, according to Michael J. Sydenham’s Léonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807, who’s subject of study claimed to belong to this group, simply holding this title was not a guarantee that you had actually taken part in the storming itself:

The only people found on the list that I myself recognized were those of the dantonist Louis Legendre, the girondin Claude Fauchet and the general Antoine Joseph Santerre. I therefore don’t know if the people claiming to have participated in the storming here below are just lying (saying you played a role in it after all being something that would easily better your patriotic reputation) or if their participation just wasn’t recorded (which doesn’t sound particulary hard to be true either):

Stanislas Fréron claims in a letter to Lucile Desmoulins dated October 18 1793, that both he, Barras and La Poype ”besieged” the Bastille.

Pierre Nicolas Berryer wrote in his memoirs that the Convention deputy Bourdon d’Oise participated in the storming of the Bastille, and still kept the blood stained coat he had worn during it five years later:

At the same time, and as if he felt the need to convince me even more of the strength of his mind, [Bourdon] took out from under his bed an oblong casket, in which was tucked the coat he had worn on the day of the storming of the Bastille… […] He took great care to point out to me that his coat was still covered with stains from the blood he had spilled at the Bastille. 

Albert Mathiez summarized in the article La vie de Héron racontée par lui-même (1925) a memoir the Committee of General Security spy François Héron wrote while imprisoned after thermidor. In it, he would have claimed to have participated in the storming of the Bastille, as well as the women’s march on Versailles, the demonstration of June 20 and the Insurrection of August 10.

According to Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (…) de 1789 à 1889, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot took part in the storming.

Regarding some more well known guys and their Bastille activities, Desmoulins, in a letter written to his father written July 16, leaves a rather detailed description of the storming. Through the following part, he does however indicate that he himself missed it:

Then, the cannon of the French Guards made a breach. Bourgeois, soldiers, everyone rushes forward. An engraver climbs up first, they throw him down and break his legs. A luckier French guard followed him, seized a gunner, defended himself, and the place was stormed in half an hour. I started running at the first cannon shot, but the Bastille was already taken, in two and a half hours, a miracle that is.

Camille also adds that, on July 15, he was among the people who scaled the ruins of the stormed Bastille:

However, I felt even more joy the day before, when I climbed into the breach (montai sur la brèche) of the surrendered Bastille, and the flag of the Guards and the bourgeois militias was raised there. The most zealous patriots were there. We embraced each other, we kissed the hands of the French guards, crying with joy and intoxication.

On July 23 1789, Robespierre wrote a letter to Antoine Buissart telling him he had gotten to see the ”liberated” Bastille, but he had of course not participated in the storming himself:

I’ve seen the Bastille, I was taken there by a detachment of the brave bourgeois militia that had taken it; because after leaving town hall, on the day of the king's trip, the armed citizens took pleasure in escorting out of honor the deputies they met, and they could only march among acclamations from the people. What a delightful abode the Bastille has been since it came into the power of the people, its dungeons are empty and a multitude of workers work tirelessly to demolish this odious monument to tyranny! I could not tear myself away from this place, the sight of which only gives sensations of pleasure and ideas of liberty to all good citizens.

According to Danton: le mythe et l’histoire (2016), Danton did not take part in the actual storming of the Bastille, however, the following day he went to the abandoned prison and took the provisional governor hostage:

Absent from the storming of the Bastille, it was on the night of July 15 to 16 that Danton took action. At the head of a patrol of the bourgeois guard of his district, of which he proclaimed himself captain, he claimed, we do not know in what capacity, to enter the "castle of the Bastille,” placed under the control of the elector Soulès, as provisional governor. Without worrying about his powers, Danton has him kidnapped and taken to City Hall, surrounded by a threatening crowd. But Soulès was released the next day upon the intervention of La Fayette; Danton's initiative was openly disavowed and blamed by the assembly of electors.

According to Clifford D. Connor, Marat wrote the following about his activities on July 14 1789 in number 36 of l’Ami du peuple (12 November 1789):

[niccocum]

Finally managed for Alex, to survive and us emigrating ahead of the French Revolution. Maybe we could join the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel now? I am sure a dashing, young man like Alex could be an asset to them. 😆