#thermidor

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible pt 1

I hope you enjoy my little history comic~ I haven't written/drawn a historical fiction in like 4 years. Getting the depressing part out of the way so we can go to the fun light hearted parts lol

[citizentaleo]

Thermidor 😞

[lohinen]

A grumpy pre-Thermidor Robespierre, deep in thought.

[insanedoritos]

[TW: gore, blood]

It's thermidor again... here's my tribute to Robespierre

(originally the drawing was thinked to be in on image like the third drawing but I decided to separate it for a more stronger contrast)

[leverontdemain]

Execution of Saint Just

" Adieu, Robespierre. "

[alittletoosaintjust]

"St. Just refused to give way before the storm that then broke out. He stood at the tribune, says Barras, 'motionless, impassive, unconquerable, coolly defying the whole House,' until the uproar ended in his impeachment and arrest. He showed the same demeanour during the final scenes in the Town Hall, and at the scaffold, holding his head stiffly and disdainfully to the end. He would illustrate his own portrait of the perfect revolutionist, penned a few weeks before. He would show these false patriots how to die. 'The perfect revolutionist,' he had written, 'is inflexible, but temperate and sensible. He lives simply, without affecting the luxury of false modesty. He is the irreconcilable enemy of every lie, indulgence, and affectation. Since his aim is to see the triumph of the Revolution, he never finds fault with it, but condemns its enemies without involving it in their disgrace. He educates it without ever forcing his views upon it. Jealous for its reputation, he speaks of it carefully and with respect. The equality he claims is not that of legal privilege, but that which he shares with all men, particularly the unfortunate. A revolutionist is the soul of honour. He keeps the law of his own free will, not from lack of enterprise; and because he has peace in his heart. Coarseness he regards as a sign of deceit and remorse, or as hypocrisy masked by violence. Aristocrats may speak and deal with tyrants: the revolutionist has no truck with bad men. But he is not a fool. He is so jealous for the good name of liberty and of his country that he never acts without consideration. He is eager for battle; he pursues the guilt and defends the innocent; he speaks the truth to instruct, not to compel; he knows that if the Revolution is to triumph he must be as good now as once he was bad: and his morality is not a clever pose, but something heart-felt and fundamental.'"

J.M. Thompson, Leaders of the French Revolution

[klara-1838]

[transrevolutions]

yes yes the whole "saint just was so gay he literally died for robespierre" is kind of funny but it increasingly bothers me how that takes away his agency in the whole affair.

while I don't claim to know what the nature of his relationship with robespierre was, he was by no means a simple acolyte. he was a political philosopher in his own right, with his own ideas and ways of doing things. there is overwhelming evidence to suggest he believed in the ideals of the republic and revolution just as strongly as robespierre did, and saying that he only stood by the robespierrists in thermidor because of robespierre himself ignores that completely.

yeah, he possibly could've ridden off his status from fleurus and escaped with his life, but that would mean not only betraying robespierre & co but also betraying every ideal he built his career off of. and he wouldn't do that, even if robespierre wasn't in the picture.

[writing-for-life]

Sandman Casting News!

Well, not really, but Barry Sloane is now officially confirmed as Destruction. He must be so relieved he doesn’t have to bite his tongue anymore 🤣

Plus a few other characters we don’t know yet…

https://x.com/redanianintel/status/1717545026941571492?s=12

[sieclesetcieux]

Reminder that the 10 thermidor was only the beginning of a purge that saw hundreds of people murdered in the next two days and hundreds more arrested. Some committed suicide or were poisoned in jail.

The Commune was almost entirely purged:

there were 140 members on the general council on 9 thermidor

87 were guillotined

40 imprisoned

only 13 remained free

On 11 thermidor, twelve tumbrils carried 71 people to be executed. Here are their names. 12 more people were guillotined on 12 thermidor. Remember this when you read the traitorous CSP members tell you they did this to "prevent bloodshed" - when the execution toll on 11 thermidor was the biggest in one day ever.

Four months later in November the Club des Jacobins would be attacked by a right-wing militia led by Fréron, who broke the windows and doors down, beat the men, and stripped and whipped the women who were there. These women were ridiculed in crass pamphlets the following days. A deputy's wife was among them, whom Fréron had been personally targetting in his rag for weeks. The Convention punished no one but the Jacobins themselves by ordering the Club to be shut down and destroyed. A market was later built there and named to celebrate Thermidor.

The terrible winter came where tons of people starved because the new useless government of corrupt fiends lifted all regulations to "free" the market. This is the winter where Victor Hugo wrote Jean Valjean stealing bread to feed his sister's children. It's not a coincidence.

Less than a year later, in May 1795, the sans-culottes would rise for the last time in an insurrection that was utterly crushed and, with it, the popular spring of the Revolution.

The Revolution had been dying. It was now truly dead.

The next years were just a corpse they pretended was still alive.

[aedesluminis]

"Thermidor" by Donau

Saint-Just...

There's something I wish to tell you,

Something that I cannot put into words anymore.

We should end it here.

It's over.

(I used Google to translate, I hope I got it correctly)

[oswincoleman]

> A journey is beginning that will take us from Destiny’s garden to Hell, from the Heart of the Dreaming to Ancient Greece and revolutionary France, and from there to places even I cannot quite imagine on the screen. I will be patient. Good things are coming.

— Neil Gaiman

Revolutionary France can only mean one thing: Thermidor! And that means that Jenna Coleman will be back as Lady Johanna Constantine!

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

Saint-Just‘s death certificate.

[theravenclawrevolutionary]

Brount watching the Thermidor executions...

[robespapier]

You know, I know there's was a cholera epidemic going on in Paris in July 1832, and maybe that's it or sth else, and it might just be all a coincidence, but there's something about Eleonore Duplay dying on the 26th July of all days (8 Thermidor).

I've mostly seen her post-Thermidor grief been talked about in terms of "she mourned Robespierre like a widow", but it doesn't feel fair to reduce her trauma to her connection to Robespierre. She lost her mother. She lost friends (Robespierre, yes, but I'm sure she also loved Augustin, Saint-Just, Le Bas,...). She was imprisonned a whole year and had to be strong for her little sister, her nephew, and the rest of her family.

And the Revolution I'm sure she believed in died.

It's just so sad to think about.

[leverontdemain]

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas "Summer"

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