#first French Republic

[empirearchives]

Vandamme was such a meme

[beardedmrbean]

[illustratus]

Napoleon on the Battlefield, 1812

Napoleon and his French generals are depicted in their distinctive tricorns at the right of the battlefield surveying the aftermath during his Russian campaign of 1812.

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 3 – The French Revolution, 1789-99, 2

The Uses of History, 3 – The French Revolution, 1789-99, 2

 Between 1789-99, France experienced more turmoil than at any other time in its history, save perhaps the stunning catastrophe of the German conquest of 1940. The Revolution which erupted in 1789 began fairly benignly as an honest attempt by Louis XVI to find a way out of France’s economic crisis of governmental bankruptcy. It rapidly became apparent that the original arrangements closed the…

[ammg-old2]

The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a period of major societal and political upheaval in France. It witnessed the collapse of the monarchy, the establishment of the First French Republic, and culminated in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the start of the Napoleonic era. The French Revolution is considered one of the defining events of Western history.

The Revolution of 1789, as it is sometimes called to distinguish it from later French revolutions, originated from deep-rooted problems that the government of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) proved incapable of fixing; such problems were primarily related to France's financial troubles as well as the systemic social inequality embedded within the Ancien Régime. The Estates-General of 1789, summoned to address these issues, resulted in the formation of a National Constituent Assembly, a body of elected representatives from the three societal orders who swore never to disband until they had written a new constitution. Over the next decade, the revolutionaries attempted to dismantle the oppressive old society and build a new one based on the principles of the Age of Enlightenment exemplified in the motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité."

Although initially successful in establishing a French Republic, the revolutionaries soon became embroiled in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) in which France fought against a coalition of major European powers. The Revolution quickly devolved into violent paranoia, and 20-40,000 people were killed in the Reign of Terror (1793-94), including many of the Revolution's former leaders. After the Terror, the Revolution stagnated until 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) took control of the government in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, ultimately transitioning the Republic into the First French Empire (1804-1814, 1815). Although the Revolution failed to prevent France from falling back into autocracy, it managed to succeed in other ways. It inspired numerous revolutions throughout the world and helped shape the modern concepts of nation-states, Western democracies, and human rights.

[marzipanandminutiae]

a book series that makes use of "anachronistic" language in a way that really feels organic for the period, IMO, is Piratica by Tanith Lee

set in an explicitly alternate universe c. 1810, the first book managed to include the sentence "Well, groovy, thou art a klutz," and make it sound 100% Golden Age of PiracyTM. even though the author used words from wildly different eras, she captured the cadence of 18th/early 19th century working-class/criminal slang so well that I literally just had to look up whether "groovy" was an older word than I previously thought

god those books were so good. I should reread them

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil Painting, ca. 1793, French.

By Jean-Louis Laneuville.

Portraying Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles in a blue and buff frock coat.

Musée Carnavalet.

[awallofswords]

First sword delivery of 2023 has finally arrived. Not my first purchase this year but the first to reach me.

The top sword is a large and heavy French First Empire era cuirassier officers sabre with the ‘Garde de Bataille’ hilt. The blade is is marked with the Solingen Rose on the spine and retains a small amount of etching. Unfortunately it’s missing its’ scabbard and I will try and get a reproduction one made for it.  The second is a French light cavalry officers sabre with the ‘Cote de Melon’ style hilt. This one is likely from the First Republic era. It has a very stout blade that is proportional to one on a troopers’ sabre. Again the blade was made in Solingen and features the typical talismanic engraving typical of the late 18th Century. 

A comparison of the French light and heavy cavalry swords to their British contemporaries of the era. 

[winnie-the-monster]

[chiegetseven]

Amy Walker - 21 Accents

This video is over a decade old and I can't testify to the quality of her non-English speaking accents, but the differentiation of the UK ones, American ones, and the Australian vs. New Zealand ones is great. The little riff she does about the trans-Atlantic accent always gets me:

"Oh hello, my name is Amy Walker and I'm an actress and a writer and a singer and a dancer and I was asked here today to give you an example of the trans-Atlantic accent I was trained in in 1945."

[sane-human]

So, does First French Republic have sharp teeth?, or because they're A Republic, they'll have normal teeth?. (Sorry, Misspell)

They have sharp Teeth ! Since they do have colonies still and also for the Reign of Terror period :D

Small continuation of the Minnesota thing:

[empirearchives]

A Nagasaki black lacquer on metal and aogai inlaid lidded box. Around 1805

Portrait of Napoleon after Louis Leopold Boilly, showing the young Napoleon as the first consul of the French Republic in 1802.

(Lempertz)

[playitagin]

1794 – Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being.

 French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême)[note 1] was a form of deism established in France by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution. It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic and a replacement for Roman Catholicism and its rival, the Cult of Reason.

[illustratus]

Croix d'Honneur by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr.

Napoleon conferring the Croix d'Honneur on a French trooper - The Cross of the Legion of Honour

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 4 – From France to Russia, 1812-1917, 1

The Uses of History, 4 – From France to Russia, 1812-1917, 1

(Image credit Wikipedia) On June 22, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, sent his massed armies into the immense expanse of the Russian Empire. Never before in history had anything like it been seen: 650 000 French and French allied troops representing most of the peoples of Europe invaded the last European land-power still daring to oppose “the Emperor”, as Bonaparte had now become…

[navree]

anyway even if you know next to nothing about the first french revolution you can still tell that it was a fuck up that was definitely more bad than good because every other country on the planet only needed ONE revolution before they got their democratic system of choice meanwhile france is on its FIFTH republic