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The Committee of Public Safety is a governmental body that deals with matters pertaining to national safety, foreign threats, and administrative duties, based in Paris and under the supervision of the National Convention.

Any questions, topics of interest, or other commentary can be sent in using the Inquiries button. If you require a notice posted, use the Notices button. Remember, by submitting material you are opening yourself to any applicable legal action that such statements could bring you.

If you wish to bring up a topic or dispute surrounding trials, court procedures, or sentencing, please take this matter to the Revolutionary Tribunal. Remember, we are not the ones who decide who gets guillotined!

If you need to report counterrevolutionary propaganda, travel law violations, or falsified papers/passports, please take these matters to the Committee of General Security. If they blow you off (usually saying something along the lines of "let Public Safety deal with it if they're so high and mighty" and/or grumbling about "indirect appointments"), feel free to bring it up in your local section/club meeting and proceed by their advice.

(Please refrain from asking about the "shouts and crashing noises, like things are being thrown" coming from inside our meeting location. It's nothing to worry about. We're dealing with it. We got everybody involved away from the window, it's all under control.)

OOC:

this is an intentionally humorous blog, in the style of other corporate/organization gimmick blogs. historical events that were serious/influential may be discussed flippantly as part of the bit. specific events referenced in posts may or may not have actually occurred in real life as described in the post. if you are unsure whether or not a post is about an actual event, are curious about what it is referencing, or just want to chat french revolution, feel free to hmu at my main @transrevolutions.

there's no fixed timeline for this blog. events and people may be referenced out of order. just don't think too hard about it.

I doubt this needs to be said, but just in case: neither I nor this blog are actually affiliated with the french government. the committee of public safety was disbanded in 1795. as such, any references to legality/arrest warrants/surveillance are tongue-in-cheek.

#screaming this is hilarious

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Important Request: if anyone in the general Paris area has seen a large black dog wandering unattended somewhere in the vicinity of Rue Saint-Honoré, please inform us. The dog in question poses no danger and is in fact quite well trained, but its prompt return is necessary for, let's just say, the capability and capacity of one of our important representatives.

#nooooo 😭

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We have received several complaints surrounding the closure of the SRRC. Many of them include rhetoric such as "god forbid women do anything," "support women's wrongs," and "they hate to see a girlboss winning".

As such, we would like to clarify that the reason for the club's closure was in fact due to their multipe incidents of rioting, vandalism, unlicensed militia formation, and at least one arson.

Finally we are not responsible for this "Chaumette" person, whose comments many of you have denounced. He doesn't work here. I think he's in the municipal Parisian government, but I'm not totally sure. Somebody misfiled some records the other day, so it may be a while before anyone can confirm that.

#lmaoooo #wait I thought it was what's-his-name from the cgs #I didn't know about chaumette

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Prieur on the implementation of the decimal scale in the metric system

The key point, in which Prieur's proposal, aimed to reform the French metric system, differentiates itself from the others, lies in the detailed implementation of the decimal scale for all kind of measures. This is why I thought appropriate to share the following excerpt, taken directly from his work. Its content might sound obvious for many of us, but it's important to remember that, in the 18th century, the scale commonly used in France was the duodecimal one. Prieur was among the scholars of the time to have relised the great advantages that the decimal subdivision would have brought in the fields of calculation and arithmetic, by making the former more straightforward in general and the latter more accessible to everyone, especially to those, who didn't receive an education. Below, under the cut, I also added the transcribed version by Isabelle Dutailly of Prieur's measures conversion table between the standards used during the Ancien Régime in Paris and the new ones, he proposed to use. It gives a general idea about both the tremendous amount of units present just in the capital and how close Prieur's subdivision of measures is compared to our current one.

"[...]Our pied national will be divided into ten pouches, each pouche in ten lignes, each ligne in ten points or primes, so that it will be possible to write each subspecies [of measure] as decimals of the main unit. This method of division is the most proper that we can accept, since it is in accordance with the rules of our numeration and, if it were applied to all the various kind of measures, the study of arithmetic would become much easier and, as a result, more widely practiced. Someone might say that diving by twelve would be convenient when considering the 1/3, 1/4 and their submultiples: this is undeniable. It is also certain that the duodecimal scale could have been used instead of the decimal one for our numeration, but such a change would currently be impractical . On the other hand, the decimal system reveals itself to be convenient for people, who do not know how to write, since it would allow them to represent each ten through their fingers, therefore each hand would be equal to one half of ten, making the count of five parts easier. The introduction of the decimals in all the measures is beneficial in making calculation easier, in that more complex multiplications and divisions are converted to operations similar to those of whole numbers; in that the reduction of each subspecies, from one to another, happens through the simple shift of the decimal point and finally, in that it would allow to increase or decrease the precision of an operation according to our needs. In the majority of cases relative to calculations of our length measurements, there is no need for this operation to go beyond the thousandth, and often the hundredth too, of the main unit."

—C. A. Prieur, Mémoire sur la nécessité et les moyens de rendre uniformes, dans le royaume, toutes les mesures d'étendue et de pesanteur (1790), p.15-16.

Note: Emphases in italics are mine, moreover I didn't translate the units into English, because their corresponding value in said language wouldn't match with the French one, so I believed it wasn't wise.

"Table of comparison between the old units of weights and length used in the city of Paris and the new national ones, which are supposed to replace the former"

Source for the original table.Source for the transcribed version.

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my paid commission

catty lawyer

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aristocrassique.....

#aww I want to hear his accent so bad #aristocrassique 🥰

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“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)

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Saint-Just with his flute. Art was commissioned by me from @michel-feuilly !

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coup of therimdor in the mcu

Saint-Just: I do not belong to any faction. I will fight them all...uhh...that sounded a lot better in my head.

Tallien: erm...awkward???

(timeskip to 10 thermidor)

Robespierre: Don't worry. Nobody could ever enter the hotel de ville, especially not that Merda...(pause)...he's right behind me, isn't he?

(Robespierre is shot in the jaw. Couthon falls down a flight of stairs. Augustin jumps out of a window.)

Barras: ...so, THAT just happened.

#SHUTUUPPPPJDHSHAHSJAJDJFKSJ

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What made ya'll think that cravats and stockings could only be white?

#18th century goths and their black stockings

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The bride and the rat man

I'm so sorry Marat I don't mean it yes i do

#Gomez and morticia-core couple

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James Sant (detail)

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Being into history means occasionally reading passages/seeing things on your historical fav and immediately clutching your chest and sharply inhaling as tears brim your eyes. 

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"The Eye of Providence"

William Preston aka Bro. William Preston (1742–1818)

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No fucking way the Tumblr user I keep reblogging Blue Archive girls’ feet from made this blog post

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The Annunciation Robert Fowler (1853–1926) Walker Art Gallery

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frog chair