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„The sole foundation of civil society is morality! Immorality is the basis of despotism, as virtue is the essence of the Republic.”

- Maximilien Robespierre

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In 1913, François-Léon Sicard created a monumental sculpture for the Panthéon, known as the Autel de la Convention Nationale or The Republican Altar […]. Tellingly, it was not dedicated to the glory of any one man, but to the deputies as a collective. The Republic is personified as a woman and stands at the center. To one side are deputies swearing an oath of loyalty to the Republic: they include Robespierre, Danton and Desmoulins. On the other side, amongst soldiers of the Republic, is a deputy en mission, in military mode, on horseback – Saint-Just. It had taken 119 years, but they had finally achieved the public acknowledgement of a heroic identity, through the apotheosis of the Panthéon.

The fall of Robespierre began a period of transition between the politics of virtue and the politics of glory. Both Saint-Just and Robespierre had warned of the possibility that the escalation of the war and the growth of the French armies might see the emergence of a Julius Caesar rather than a Cincinnatus. Such a man would base his public image not on self-effacing political virtue, but on the traditional military qualities of courage, leadership, and glory. A short distance from the Panthéon stands Les Invalides, within which rests the monumental tomb that commemorates just such a man: a man who did not shrink from taking power in his own hands. Napoleon Bonaparte proved himself not only adept at exploiting the language of the ‘man of virtue’ when it suited his purposes, but also, when the opportunity came, prepared to seize the moment to emerge as France’s ‘man of glory’.

Virtue or Glory?: Dilemmas of Political Heroism in the French Revolution by Marisa Linton, p. 100f.

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disney is making live action remakes of all the wrong movies……………turning 2D animated films into 3D animated w all that cgi…………..when cars is literally right there

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100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

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umm…guys?

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Start your morning by fighting stupid and being a problem for Google 🙄:

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Happy 265th birthday to Camille Desmoulins!

Thank you for everything you've done for the world... You are missed!

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studying the French Revolution is like willingly trapping yourself in a time loop where you get so excited when the Third Estate rises in solidarity and takes the Tennis Court Oath but it always inevitably leads to the crushing despair of Thermidor

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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Person with boobs: I want to make my breasts bigger

Doctors: Okay then you can just go see a plastic surgeon and we won’t bother you anymore but don’t go too big or it could be hazardous to your health

Person with boobs: I want my breasts removed

Doctors: WOAH WOAH WOAH HOLY SHIT uh you have to go to a support group and then therapy for a year and then you have to get a letter from a therapist saying you aren’t crazy and then you have to consult with a surgeon and then MAYBE you can have that lol

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(1) Thom Browne (f/w 2024), (2) Schiaparelli (f/w 2022), (3) Roberto Cavalli (f/w 2000), (4) Schiaparelli (f/w 2021), (5) Iris van Herpen (f/w 2011), (6) Olivier Theyskens (f/w 1998)