#thermidor

[ic-napology]

Josephine and Fouché talking.

It's supposedly set between 1794-5. I know I took a lot of liberties in terms of costuming, because I wanted to communicate things through the dresses and having fun)

[robespapier]

I went to the Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales) with @hurlumerlu​ and we saw the famous (Louis XV desk turned Committee of Public Safety's) desk on which, legend has it, Robespierre laid wounded in Thermidor. But how can we be sure? Do we have precise sources? It can’t have been the only table in the Committee’s rooms? 

Or is it just that the idea of Robespierre, living embodiment of the Revolution, lying dying on was used to be a monarchy desk, was just too good, bittersweet and ironic, so the legend took? 

“The green leather which covers the top is rumoured to have the trace of his blood” says the explanation sign on the desk. The desk’s been cotton swabbed for DNA by Philippe Charlier and his team, to no results. But the desk is scratched and damaged, and there’s clearly a mug stain! 

It was a grey, cloudy day in Paris. But the sun showed up right as I was taking pictures of the desk. Also, look how pretty the Phrygian caps on the desk’s corners are. 

The peace treaty with Italy was signed on this desk in February 1947, but it's way more famous for Thermidor.

[houppellande]

Muscadins costumes from “Harlequinade” - by Robert Perdziola

[michel-feuilly]

Hi Max

[noura-mc]

Jean-Lambert Tallien on 9 thermidor threatened to use a dagger against Robespierre before the National Convention if the deputies did not decree his accusation ..

[saint-jussy]

9 Thermidor Opposite World AU

[josh-lanceero]

“Drown him”

[alittletoosaintjust]

“There is little evidence for what Saint-Just really thought during the early weeks of the Convention, so there is now no way of knowing whether he hesitated or not between factions, or what factors inclined him to make up his mind. We only know that he chose Robespierre, unequivocally, and for the rest of his life. His choice was all the more striking since, out of the twelve deputies from the Aisne, he was the only one to align himself with the Montagnards.”

- Marisa Linton, The Man of Virtue: The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L. A. Saint-Just 

[wavveisnothere]

Looks like someone got shot.. (by himself or by someone else, I still don’t know).

Well, first time that while studying the revolution I was really interested in it.

It’s a big mess, with too much people that I end up confusing. XD

The history teacher showed us some extracts of “La revolution française” (1989) to image some elements. I watched the film (5h is nothing when you really like it) and I started watching others movies (Danton 1983, Un peuple et son roi, Saint Just et la forces de choses).

Still have to watch “la terreur et la vertu” but I only have the second part. :(

And “Les amants de la bastille”. X)

[the-cloudy-dreamer]

Yes, yes I know we are all excited to see the Endless family dinner on Sandman season 2 BUT may I suggest —-Thermidor.

It’s got Johanna Constantine in France during the French Revolution and more importantly Orpheus AND A CHORUS OF SINGING HEADS PLEASE I want to watch that SO BAD

Bonus Points for that one scene with my girl Jessamy

[edgysaintjust]

Conservatives: Robespierre's death ended the reign of terror!

France after Robespierre's death:

[ic-napology]

Murat in all his gorgeousness and better quality (and Napoleon's embarassed eyeroll as well)

[robespapier]

You know, the thing is, Robespierre wasn't in any state to care which table he was spending the night on (though that can't have been comfortable, on top of all the pain he was already in)

but if the desk at Soubise is truly THE desk, I can't help but think of Saint-Just, waiting for death, and maybe fixating on the pretty Phrygian caps at the desk's corners when looking at Robespierre was just too much

[tierseta]

I’ve seen this mix up somewhere so,

Robespierre’s execution* Robespierre’s elimination = Thermidor or 9 Thermidor

the political movement that ensued = Thermidorian reaction

The term Thermidorian reaction refers to a period and political movement that started in reaction to Thermidor. It spans form Thermidor to the start of the Directoire in November 1795.

*Robespierre’s execution happened on 10 Thermidor, but the whole affair is often referred to as 9 Thermidor or other longer term.

[dee-is-for-lots-of-things]

every time i read parliament of rooks or dream of a thousand cats or thermidor im like yeah this is sandman. like this is as sandman as it can be. this guy (this guy being the guy who created sandman) just somehow fucking gets it (it being sandman, the thing he created).

[mali-umkin]

Three LFI deputees are going to Arras today to pay a tribute to Robespierre in front of his house. Of course this is being shared a lot on the web (BFMtv's social medias en tête) and Thermidorian propaganda is all over the Internet. Congrats to Antoine Léaument for repeatedly standing up to his beliefs and values.