It wouldn’t be my art if it wasn’t a little stupid.
He was going to have dinosaur earrings, but those hadn’t really been “discovered” yet as we know them today. Frogs it is.
Although if I can make Claire’s exist in 18th century France, I suppose dinosaurs would have been acceptable
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Délivrance de Landau par Saint-Just, 24 décembre 1793 by Frédéric Regamey (published 1905). I thought I´d save everyone time finding Waldo. Those two gents were so happy to see Saint-just that they started making out. Thanks @frevandrest for bringing it to my attention.
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Saint-Just Resources
A culmination of the many articles and other resources I use in my own research as someone studying to be a historian on the revolution. Will be added to as I progress in my research; please let me know if any links don't work!
Historians on Saint-Just:
Biography from Association pour la sauvegarde de la Maison de Saint-Just
Histoire de Saint-Just député à la Convention nationale (Hamel, 1860)
Lenôtre on SJ's 1791-early 1792 life in rural France
Saint-Just (Cioti, 1991)
Saint-Just: Sohn, Denker und Protagonist der Revolution (Monar, 1993)
Saint-Just (Gignoux, 1947)
Saint-Just en mission la naissance d'un myth (J.P. Gross, 1967)
Saint-Just et les femmes (Quennedey, 2016)
Saint-Just: Apostle of the Terror by Geoffrey Bruun (my personal favorite English SJ bio)
The Man of Virtue: The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just (Linton, 2010)
Saint-Just: The French Revolution's "Angel of Death" (Linton, 2015)
Three Letters of Saint-Just (Bruun, 1934)
Saint-Just in modern Annales historiography (Vinot, Linton, Quennedey, etc., 2017)
Saint-Just : Une Constitution pour la République (on his role in the drafting of the 1793 Constitution) (Crucifix and Quennedey, 2018)
Saint-Just's Pre-Convention Life:
Monograph on the Château de Coucy (written in the 1780s as a school assignment) - see this blog post by Anne Quennedey for more info.
Arlequin-Diogene (SJ's play) -> I did an English translation
L’esprit de la révolution et de la constitution de la France (1791)
Convention Speeches:
All Convention Speeches Summarized (Anne Quennedey, 2020)
First Speech: 13 November 1792 on the debate of putting the King to trial.
19 vendémiaire an II (10 October 1793)
Ventôse Decrees Proposal Convention Speech (my complete English translation)
9 Thermidor an II (28 July 1794) Speech/Draft
My full English translation
"Praise the Victories and Forget Ourselves" Excerpt
"Tarpeian Rock" Analogy from 9 Thermidor Speech draft
Miscellaneous:
Why I study SJ
My Thoughts on SJ's Thoughts on the Terror
SJ's Last Paris Apartment ( w/ @/ vieillesmaisons)
SJ's various lodgings in Paris
Speech to Army of the Rhine excerpt
Alsace Mission Map
Saint-Just on Marat
SJ Handwriting example deciphered
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