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Rip Stanisława Przybyszewska you would have loved ao3

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the terror was so weird and random and inexplicable, you guys 

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stack of cordeliers that i was going to include in the last ask but i didn't want to disturb it with danton's presence

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A triptych of illustrations for "Fathers and sons" (original title "fathers and children") by Turgieniev. gouache on paper

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DesaixCyr and some napoleonic+frev doodles😋

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Historians are usually up in everyone’s business. It’s like professional gossip, but with sources

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Feather-brained man who blame me for being a 'hot-head' will see by this that I was one early in life; but what they will perhaps refuse to believe is that from my earliest years I was eaten up with the love of glory, a passion that often has changed its object in the various periods of my life, but which has never left me one moment. At five I should have liked to be the master of a school; at fifteen a professor; an author at eighteen, a creative genius at twenty, even as my ambition to-day is the glory of sacrificing myself to the fatherland.

Jean-Paul Marat, Portrait de l’Ami du peuple tracé par lui-même

Happy Birthday !!

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Happy 274th Birthday, Jean-Paul Marat!

And finally, what if Marat were to return today? What would he think of the state of our planet in the second decade of the twenty-first century? He could read in the history books that the Great French Revolution—his Revolution—is recognized as the watershed event in the making of the modern world.

“But what did it accomplish?” he might ask.

“It rid France of a parasitic class whose right to rule was based upon aristocratic birthright and traditional privilege.”

“Is that all?”

“It established legal and political equality, which then spread throughout much of Europe and the world.”

“Legal and political equality? What about economic and social equality?”

“No, the situation in that regard is even worse than you remember it. Today, despite two centuries of mind-boggling technological progress, a handful of billionaires control most of the Earth’s resources while billions of people remain mired in hunger, disease, oppression, and grinding poverty.”

Marat would surely be shocked and dismayed to learn that after more than 200 years his struggle for social revolution had lost none of its relevance and urgency. Where is the People’s Friend now, when we need him?

This is a quote from Clifford D. Conner’s excellent biography of Marat, which you can find here.

Also, check out my Marat tag to find out more about him!

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“Historians tend to focus on the Terror and attempt to catalogue its victims in Paris and the provinces, but they seldom set beside it the death toll from the war that resulted from the invasion of France, or the potential death toll if the Terror had not enabled the Jacobins to mobilise resistance to that invasion. France defeated, devastated, despoiled and partitioned would have seen a far higher death toll than that produced by the guillotine. The terror of the guillotine is remembered, but the terror of the invading Prussians is forgotten. Nor had the French monarchy and aristocracy been slow to resort to their own terror in the past.”

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Present historic: Carlyle, Robespierre and the French Revolution

By Ann Talbot 

(via i-justanotherfan)

We all should reblog it.

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Боевые Подруги | Combat Girl Friends;

Nikolai Boot, 1969.

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pointing out Ukrainian collaborators during WW2 as all of the history of the Eastern Front is honestly unproductive and a bit intellectually dishonest; more fought for the Red Army

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“They guillotined Charlotte Corday and they said Marat is dead. No. Marat is not dead. Put him in the Pantheon or throw him in the sewar, it doesn’t matter - he’s back the next day. He’s reborn in the man who has no job, in the woman who has no bread, in the girl who has to sell her body, in the child who hasn’t learned to read; he’s reborn in the garrets of Rouen; he’s reborn in the basements of Lille; he’s reborn in the unheated tenement, in the wretched mattress without blankets, in the unemployed, in the proletariat, in the brothel, in the jailhouse, in your laws that show no pity, in your schools that give no future, and he reappears in all that is ignorance and he recreates himself from all that is darkness. Oh, beware, human society; you cannot kill Marat until you have killed the misery of poverty.”

— Victor Hugo (via bunniesandbeheadings)

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He makes me sick

Tradicional for yall.

Antother one for my Marwall

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I can't get over how silly napoleon looks chasing after Josephine(?) here it's lowkey cute

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