"that you could be so cruel" ok correct me if i'm wrong but does penelope featherington not run a gossip rag that exist solely to publish unsubstantiated rumors about women she doesn't like for various reasons that have profoundly negative repercussions on those women (didn't the publication of marina's pregnancy lead to marina almost dying in her quest to terminate said pregnancy??????) and has in fact used that same rag to put not just colin's entire family but also specifically colin's sister, her best friend, through a significant amount of grief and strife that came as a direct result of that rag?
but colin's the cruel one? because she happened to eavesdrop on a conversation where he said he doesn't wanna date her? that's cruelty but all the other stuff isn't?
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if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.
this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.
incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?
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saint just and philippe le bas appreciation!
uni starts in a week, I'm mindful of your requests and happy to draw them for u, I just need a bit more time. <3
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Alexander Vlahos and Evan Williams as Philippe I, Duc D'Orléans and Chevalier de Lorraine
VERSAILLES 2.06: THE SANDS OF TIME.
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Which revolutionaries had earrings?
All I really know of are Éléonore Duplay, Lucile Desmoulins and Philippe Le Bas, who all wear hoop earrings in the most famous (and, in Éléonore and Philippe’ case, only) portraits presumed to be depicting them. Since these are just portraits, it’s however hard to say if they wore earrings everyday or just put them on for this specific occasion.
The common claim that Saint-Just had earrings does interestingly enough not appear to be that well backed up. There is only a single depiction where ”he” has one, and it’s not one of the four that we can be almost certain is Saint-Just. You can read more about it here: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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New Vegas has 5 NPCs with ‘Very Evil’ Karma:
- Duke & Cook Cook (two of the fiends)
- Philippe and Mortimer (The White Glove Cannibals)
- Vulpes Inculta
At first I was like “why isn’t Caesar here?” But I think it’s because these guys all know what they do is bad. They’re all fully aware that their crimes are awful and unforgivable. Caesar thinks he is doing the right thing, whereas Vulpes knows what he does is wrong. Mortimer and Philippe both know that cannibalism is frowned upon and killing peoples isn’t good, and neither is tricking people into cannibalism. And I don’t think we get a good look at the psyches of Cook Cook or Duke but they are terrible and presumably aware of that.
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at this point i don't think i will be able to explain the thought process that led to the creation of the emo commissioner uniform
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I know it doesn’t really matter but I’m curious on whether u think Jason killed Felipe Garzonas or not. I could go either way tbh.
He did it and he'd do it again I've got evidence can you see the evidence no but trust me I have it
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