#robespierre

[trainwrecksys]

Some Frev (exclusively Saint-Just and Robespierre, with ONE Desmoulins)

Oh btw I'm still very into MPHFPC, whenever I post other things just know it's ruling my life behind the scenes I'm just not creative enough to make a lot of new art LMAO

[secondjulia]

It's Stanisłava & Napoleon!

'Napoleon was a crude brute of unheard-of vitality — a sociobiological phenomenon rather than a human being, endowed not with a mind, but with inborn reflexes necessary at a certain phase as dictated by the laws of Nature. Oh, yes, that man lives on, all right — in the eunuch-like deification offered by millions of pedantic schoolmasters. He lives on in the bestial and murderous instincts of every average youngster. While about another man named Robespierre (seven years older than Napoleon), who had predicted his coming in the minutest detail, and who perished in a vain effort to save the world from this plague — while about this contemporary of Napoleon's, European youth knows only that he was 'one of the darkest characters of the Revolution', as a certain pedantic schoolmaster recently said, inveighing against a pupil who naively included Robespierre among 'the remarkable people of the time'.

-A Life of Solitude: Stanisława Przybyszewska by Jadwiga Kosicka & Daniel Gerould.

Hilary Mantel called Stanisława "The Woman Who Died of Robespierre" — actually, she died of tuberculosis/extreme poverty/deprivation/exhaustion/malnutrition/morphine addiction), but she was devoted to Robespierre & the French Revolution and wrote the plays The Danton Case and Thermidor.

One day, I'll do a full post — possibly several posts — about Stanisława & A Life of Solitude because oh my god, the absolute familiarity of wholehearted fixation coupled with the exclusion from the world and the attachment to creative work at the expense of physical safety and wellbeing is stunning & heartbreaking & she deserves more respect than "The Woman Who Died of Robespierre". But I need time to process & I did kinda laugh — /immediately think of this post — at her grudge against Napoleon on behalf of Robespierre. (I mean, we all get it.)

When you read a book regarding historical figures or events and suddenly you have massive beef with some guy who passed away like three hundred years ago

[janellefeng]

I am going to be tabling at LBX this year! There will be a very limited physical stock of the new zine.

(For those who cannot go, the new zine will also be available to purchase digitally online on Shortbox in October!)

[le-vieux-cordelier]

[citizentaleo]

[yourhelenwolf]

Соколов Михаил Ксенофонтович (1885 - 1947). Французская революция: Робеспьер (1932), Марат (1943), Сен-Жюст (1943), Дантон (1930-е).

Sokolov Mikhail Ksenofontovich (1885 - 1947). "French Revolution": Robespierre (1932), Marat (1943), Saint-Just (1943), Danton (1930s).

[tsutsutsutsutsutsu]

Man is born free

[xiranjayzhao]

Special interest level: catching a government's attention because of it and getting invited to their parliament in costume

(Special thanks to deputy Antoine Leaument for the invite and Molly X Chang for the photos and videos!)

[misscalming]

Robespierre my love get behind me 🤺

[secondjulia]

Just watched this! I don't know why I kinda like this Robespierre. He wasn't the particular focus of this movie, relative to others, but there was something about how they portrayed him — like all quiet & studious & serious — that made me feel like, Yeah, that's Max 🙂

Underrated moment in One Nation, One King: When Robespierre goes “I have no love of long speeches on obvious issues” and everybody laughs

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

[dapper-suitor]

ANGEL CURLS UNDER THE WIG🤗🤗🤗

guys please don’t kill me my frev phase always hits like a bus

[citizentaleo]

Saintspierre for pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[secondjulia]

Lovely & impressive! I have an intense loathing of long coats but these assholes are making me reconsider my position. I'm personally working on a sketch of Camille right now & it's just like whyyyyyyy are you making me rethink my deeply entrenched fashion preferences?! They're so gorgeous & dramatic. I bet they could really flounce.

Just finished sewing this late 1780s/early 1790s frock coat for my upcoming french revolution film!!

I’ll add a rough tutorial below in case anyone wants to see how I made it for cheap using a coat I thrifted :)

1. What I started with

Here’s the before picture of the coat without any modifications. It was a bit big on me (I’m quite petite) and rather boxy. It was also giving really intense grandma vibes and not in a good way

2. Questionable Tailoring

The first thing I did was pull an inch or two of fabric in from each side of the coat toward the center seam in back. This was simply done so the coat would fit my small shoulders better and the collar would sit higher on my neck.

Why am I doing it this way, you ask? Easy. I am too lazy to rip open the seams and tailor it properly. I just learned how to sew recently exclusively by trial and error so everything I do here is a series of atrocious shortcuts that would make any seasoned sewist cringe. Take my actions with a very large grain of salt.

3. Actually I lied I did rip some seams

I increased the height of the slit/vent in the back to sit around the tailbone, and I added some pleats to mimic the additional fabric that late 18th century & early 19th century coats tended to have around the back vent. I chose not to sew these pleats down, I just pressed them later.

4. Changing the shape

Then, to get the curved shape, I removed the buttons and pinned the fabric inwards until it looked right. I ran a small stitch along the edge to secure it in place.

(Warning: because of the curve of the fabric, the coat now rumples a bit around the hem… maybe think about this and take this into account if you plan to follow this as a tutorial)

5. Cutting & Hemming

I cut away the excess fabric (this helped reduce some of the rumple— plus, I needed the extra fabric for buttons later) and pressed the seams to flatten them. I also stitched up and pressed the sleeves to have cuffs, and secured the seam down the middle of the collar to flatten it.

6. Button time

Here is where things go from “shitty sewing” to “5 minute crafts DIY.” If you are a normal person (and you want actual functional buttons), ignore this section and just buy a kit to make fabric covered buttons and sew them on.

However, this is not what I did. Patience is a virtue I do not possess, and thus, I could not stand waiting for a button kit to arrive from Amazon. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and make my own fabric covered buttons from the materials I already had. To make matters worse, I also do not own any buttons. After much pondering, I decided to create the button bases from blobs of hot glue.

I made them in two sizes: roughly 3cm and 2.5 cm in diameter (larger: just over 1 inch wide, smaller: size of a US quarter). I cut the excess fabric from earlier into a square with enough room to gather its edges and cinch it around the hot glue blob, which would then be sewn on. I used 9 big buttons down the front of the jacket, each 2.5 inches apart. Two smaller buttons were added to each sleeve cuff.

7. Button “holes”

Because this is a costume rather than a functional daily garment, I could not be bothered to add real button holes. (I also don’t own any button hole presser foot for my sewing machine, so I really didn’t have a choice in this matter.) To lazily fake this effect I just did two layers of zigzag stitching on top of each other. Each "button hole" was approximately 1.5 inches long, which I marked on the fabric in a water-soluble ink marker.

8. “Pockets”

These were quite simple to add-- I just cut rectangles from my remaining scraps of fabric and lining and stitched them onto the side/back of the coat. Despite my intense loathing for fake pockets, I won't make use of real pockets on set to avoid adding unnecessary bulk to the costumes. Also, you guessed it, I didn’t feel like taking the time to add real pockets. So these flaps will have to do for now.

And that's about it! I'll reblog this post with more detailed shots of the coat itself.

If you're interested in how this compares to actual historical garments, here are the coats I used as reference:

Unknown Coat, V&A Museum, Boilly's Portrait of Robespierre, the first coat pictured in this LACMA exibition

Also, for those wondering exactly how budget-friendly this was, it cost just over $7 (USD) in total, since the only thing I actually bought was the coat itself. It's 100% silk too!

[yourhelenwolf]

N. V. Selivanov-Carter (Fragments): Robespierre (1930s), Danton (1930s), Babeuf (1930s), Marat (1930s), Desmoulins (1935).

[historicconfessions]