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ll biokh’s illustration of robespierre & saint-just for anatoly gladilin’s the gospel of robespierre, 1970 (USSR)

“everyone had become accustomed to the fact that immediately after the name of robespierre came the name of saint-just. the politicians of the parisian coffee houses even came up with a distinction of roles between the two: ‘robespierre is grand, saint-just is strong; robespierre speaks, saint-just acts.’ saint-just seemed beyond human. at twenty seven, he knew no hesitation or doubt. in politics he adhered to the slogan ‘he who is not with us is against us.’ he had one love: the revolution. he had one idol: robespierre.“

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let’s do something unethical together, just the two of us. for fun.

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let’s do something unethical together, just the two of us. for fun.

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Reblogging because:

a) funny historical anecdote

b) it gives me an excuse to post this photo from my visit to Texel which I'm still low-key proud of:

american puritan names have nothing on the first name of this 17th century dutch woman artist i just read about. my girl Tesselschade ('texel damage') named after the shipwrecking of her father's 44 trade ships on the coast of the island Texel in 1593.

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The difference in how people draw Vergil depending on whether they know him from the Divine Comedy or from his poetry will never fail to amuse me

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It is my pleasure to present yet another banger of an academic writing title I've encountered in the wild:

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rb to give a flower to the person you rb this from

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Tumblr users: Look 👀 at this post ✉️📬 format we 👯 invented ✨

18th century hieroglyphickal puzzle-picture satirists:

source

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Fuck it we bawl (starts sobbing uncontrollably)

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What if the whole frevblr unites and creates an accurate frev movie that is like 9 hours long and we stream it on all streaming platforms and cinemas and make sure the whole world sees it cause we are all fucking tired of seeing the French Revolution portrayed inaccurately in every single piece of media ever?

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Study of a Standing Woman, Angelica Kauffmann, 1792-96

From the Met Museum

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Being a fan of a famous historical figure is crazy, I will be like ‘wow finally seeing my waifu this year 🥰’ and it will be at his mausoleum

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Thank you for the tag @alchemyfire! Here's mine:

Feels like new country's flag just dropped. I do like it, feels very spring-like somehow

No pressure tags: @theghostofbean @chaotic-history @iron--and--blood @xxmarvelouslifexx @trzepotttt

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR NAME?

Starting my own reblog game LET'S GO! https://synesthesia.me

Here's mine 😼

I do exude yellow and it's my favourite color

@rigormortizzz @honestloverboy @creep-u-out @gurokichi and open tags!!

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I went to the Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales) with @hurlumerlu​ and we saw the famous (Louis XV desk turned Committee of Public Safety’s) desk on which, legend has it, Robespierre laid wounded in Thermidor. But how can we be sure? Do we have precise sources? It can’t have been the only table in the Committee’s rooms? 

Or is it just that the idea of Robespierre, living embodiment of the Revolution, lying dying on was used to be a monarchy desk, was just too good, bittersweet and ironic, so the legend took? 

“The green leather which covers the top is rumoured to have the trace of his blood” says the explanation sign on the desk. The desk’s been cotton swabbed for DNA by Philippe Charlier and his team, to no results. But the desk is scratched and damaged, and there’s clearly a mug stain! 

It was a grey, cloudy day in Paris. But the sun showed up right as I was taking pictures of the desk. Also, look how pretty the Phrygian caps on the desk’s corners are. 

The peace treaty with Italy was signed on this desk in February 1947, but it’s way more famous for Thermidor.

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Happy founding of Rome pretend day! Found my photos from January 2019 when I was in Rome, but was absolutely indifferent to it 🥲 Oh, how much I desire to go back there now!

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i love the girls i follow.. amazing and smart