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can’t believe how almost soap-opera-esque it is that camille used a reference to rousseau against robespierre. like the pure drama of it all makes it so good

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How the Dantonist trial should have ended ...

made with @qui-rault in mind 🫰

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androgyny of their revolutions!

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Thermidor.

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The yearly seasian monsoon didn't help ease my mood so I decided to mess with some brushes

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OMGGG I’m back from the grave and I drew Robespierre! Yasss! It was Thermidor or something and I wanted to post something but I’m too lazy to finish anything I started so I’m just gonna post it nowww. Here’s my first post

If anyone (maybe not…)recognises my art style — yesss, it’s me. I’m very busyyy

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Hello! I made a similar ask in the "isthesjcute" blog and am having the same issue with Robespierre (and Camille Desmoulins) in which they all look different in the portraits so here I am asking for expert advice on this matter. What do you think are the most accurate portraits/descriptions of Robespierre (and Desmoulins if you know- as far as I am aware, there are no "isthedesmoulinscute?" blogs which is a shame 😭)? Thank you!

Hi there! The most accurate depictions of Robespierre are likely the anonymous portrait in the Carnavalet's collection, seen here! As well as the bust at the Conciergerie (and the one in Vizelle FrenchRev museum, which I do not have a personal photo of.)

As for Camille, we really don't have as much to go off of, but the Joseph Boze portrait shown here is likely a quite accurate depiction, as it was painted from a sitting while Camille was still alive, not long before his death.

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i am so goddamn confused by people who have the intellectual capacity to recognize that propaganda did Robespierre wrong but not that the same thing happened to Saint-Just

what do they think Saint-Just was as a real human being, NOT COMPLEX??

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EEPY MEN

Robespierre and Saint Just shitpost based on that twitter meme

Maxime regrets giving Camille duplicate keys to his flat lol

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i haven't watched barbie yet

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Thanks to @revolutionarywig for the inspiration 😂💀

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Frev nicknames compilation

Maximilien Robespierre – the Incorruptible (first used by Fréron, and then Desmoulins, in 1790).

Augustin Robespierre – Bonbon, by Antoine Buissart (1, 2), Régis Deshorties and Élisabeth Lebas. Élisabeth confirmed this nickname came from Augustin’s middlename Bon.

Charlotte Robespierre – Charlotte Carraut (hid under said name at the time of her arrest, also kept it afterwards according to Élisabeth Lebas). Caroline Delaroche (according to Laignelot in 1825, an anonymous doctor in 1849 and Pierre Joigneaux in 1908).

Louis Antoine Saint-Just – Florelle (by himself), Monsieur le Chevalier de Saint-Just (by Salle and Desmoulins)

Jean-Paul Marat – the Friend of the People (l’Ami du Peuple) (self-given since 1789, when he started his journal with the same name)

Georges-Jacques Danton – Marius (by Fréron and Lucile Desmoulins).

Éléonore Duplay – Cornélie (according to the memoirs of Charlotte Robespierre and Paul Barras. Barras also adds that Danton jokingly called Éléonore “Cornelie Copeau, the Cornelie that is not the mother of Gracchus”)

Élisabeth Duplay – Babet (by Robespierre and Philippe Lebas in her memoirs)

Jacques Maurice Duplay – my little friend (by Robespierre), our little patriot (by Robespierre)

Camille Desmoulins – Camille (given by contemporaries since 1790. Most likely a play on the Roman emperor Camillus who saved Rome from Brennus in the 4th century like Camille saved the revolution on July 12, and not a reference to Camille behaving like a manchild to the people around him like is commonly stated.) Loup (wolf) by Fréron and Lucile (1, 2), Loup-loup by Fréron (1, 2), Monsieur Hon by Lucile.

Lucile Desmoulins – Loulou (by Camille 1, 2), Loup by Camille, Lolotte (by Camille (1, 2), Rouleau by Fréron (1, 2) and Camille, the chaste Diana (by Fréron), Bouli-Boula by Fréron (1, 2).

Horace Desmoulins – little lizard (Camille), little wolf (Ricord), baby bunny (Fréron).

Annette Duplessis (Lucile’s mother) — Melpomène (by Fréron), Daronne (by Camille)

Stanislas Fréron – Lapin (bunny) (by himself (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and Lucile. According to Marcellin Matton, publisher of the Desmoulins correspondence and friend of Lucile’s mother and sister, Fréron obtained this nickname from playing with the bunnies at Lucile’s parents country house everytime he visited there, and Lucile was the one who came up with it). Martin by Camille and himself (likely a reference to the drawing ”Martin Fréron mobbed by Voltaire” which depicts Fréron’s father Élie Fréron as a donkey called ”Martin F”.)

Manon Roland — Sophie (by herself in a letter to Buzot).

Charles Barbaroux — Nysus by Manon Roland

François Buzot — Euryale by Manon Roland

Pierre Jacques Duplain — Saturne (by Fréron)

Guillaume Brune — Patagon (by Fréron)

Antoine Buissart (Robespierre’s pretend dad from Arras) — Baromètre (due to his interest in science)

Comment who had the best/worse nickname!

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Masterlist of My Resources + Posts

Very much a work in progress, please be patient <3

Comprehensive table of contents for my own resources (posts, translations, etc.) and suggested readings from experts and people in the frevblr community.

Saint-Just:

Convention Speeches: (with partial English translations)

First Speech: 13 November 1792 on the debate of putting the King to trial.

19 vendémiaire an II (10 October 1793): read at ARBR Thermidor 2023 Activities, * includes link to Youtube video that is not mine.

9 Thermidor an II (28 July 1794) "Praise the Victories and Forget Ourselves" Excerpt "Tarpeian Rock" Analogy from 9 Thermidor Speech draft

Misc:

Why I study SJ

My Thoughts on SJ's Thoughts on the Terror

SJ's Paris Apartment ( w/ @/ vieillesmaisons)

Speech to Army of the Rhine excerpt

Alsace Mission Map

Saint-Just on Marat

SJ Handwriting example deciphered

Arlequin-Diogene (SJ's play)

What inspired the nature elements of Organt

Saint-Just: Apostle of the Terror by Geoffrey Bruun (my personal favorite English SJ bio)

@sieclesetcieux has many great SJ masterposts, definitely utlise this blog.

Marat:

general resources, will be updated eventually !

L' Ami du Peuple Archive (all issues presumed)

PS- Head over to @dailymaratmail for daily L'Ami du Peuple and other Marat writing excerpts (in collaboration with @/viellesmaisons and @/aproperfool)

Misc.:

My Carnavalet photos, SJ Bust , Marat Bathtub, Cordeliers monastary, Marat Printer, Pantheon National Convention Sculpture

On Brissot

On Lafayette

Robespierre's silly snot poem

Camille Desmoulins' letter to his father (1789)

Frevolutionaries' symbols on rural calendar

Anecdotes, why I study the Revolution

Why are there Anti-Robespierrests? (not my video, i just recommend it)

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According to this article from some 1875 magazine, Robespierre could wiggle his ears really good.

It’s basically a DIY on how to wiggle your ears that ends with “Supposedly, Robespierre could wiggle his ears really well.”

And it’s just…so random 😅

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Antoine did it again !