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A little piece of music which I’d like to share with everyone who’s interested. It’s a piano music sheet of Henry Litolff’s «Ouverture to Maximilian Robespierre» which is basically one of my favorite compositions ever. It came to me by pure coincidence so I really proud to have it in my collection. The reprint is Russian and dates back to 1928. The first page is a bit damaged but the rest is almost perfectly fine.

Especially I like the La Marseillaise fragment here. Also it’s for four hands so I have literally no one to play it with lol.

If you never listened to this ouverture I highly recommend.

Bonus: a postcard with Maxime from the movie «Napoléon» 1927. The music sheet was released a year after the movie was made.

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why😡😢

#If I could dress like this I would #Oh to be draped in a French flag

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I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”

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Breaking of Geneva Convention, the Vienna Convention, and the Rome Statute by Israel. Incredibly dangerous retaliation from an Iranian governement hostage of its own inflammatory rhetoric. And people, people, people in between.

#Do people realise what this means for Syrians as well as Iranians and Israelis? #Can the rhetoric of 'they have the right to defend themselves' cease for all and those in power actually think of an alternative? #Death machine #Is the Palestinian suffering not enough #Seems that people don't see how morals aside this worsens things strategically

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why is this about to make me sob

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When I was little, my dad hired a Cambodian refugee called Jack to help him drywall a dining room ceiling. Jack spoke very little English; he'd recently gotten a part time job in a little Asian deli not far from our home and needed to pick up some extra work. He was very kind to six year old me and my exhausted mom; he brought us day old leftovers from the deli counter often, and liked to tuck the knuckle of his index finger into the dimple in my cheek whenever I smiled at him.

He soaked up construction skills and other information like a sponge, and by the time he left my dad's tiny construction company he'd gotten his GED, learned to drive, reunited with his sister and her family, and had begun remodeling a vacant business on the rich side of town into a Cambodian restaurant. He invited us to their grand opening on lunar new year, and I'll never forget when he gave me a red envelope with five dollars in it and told me, "tonight I am the luckiest man in the world, so this will bring you luck, too."

Years later, my dad told me that Jack had witnessed his parents' murder during the khmer rouge, and was immediately separated from his sister. He had to cross the killing fields at Choeung Ek alone, on foot, eating grass and insects to survive. He somehow made it to Cam Ranh on the coast of Vietnam, where a distant friend of his father's put him on a boat to Seattle. Jack was nine years old.

I tell this story because, even though I haven't seen Jack or any of his relatives in thirty years, I pray he's well and happy and eating like a king tonight with everyone he loves, celebrating the long overdue demise of the pestilential sonofabitch who tried to wipe them out.

Fuck Henry Kissinger's pathetic ghost, and fuck all those who praise him. Fuck Imperialism. Fuck the genocidal war machine. Drink deep for the freedom of all souls tonight, my friends. And tomorrow, keep fighting.

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Henri de la Rochejaquelein by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

#Inner Jacobin struggle vs incredible painting

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“I declare that an attempt has been made to discontent and embitter [Robespierre’s mind and to lead him] to fatal steps, and it was doubtless not expected that I would lend my pure hands to iniquity. At the very least do not believe that the idea of flattering a man could have come from my heart. I defend [Robespierre] because he seems to me irreproachable, and I would accuse him myself if he turned criminal. What a plan of indulgence, great god! That of wanting the loss of innocent men!

[…] I repeat that on my return [from the army] everything was changed. The government was not divided, but it was scattered and abandoned to a few who, enjoying absolute power, accused the others of pretending to it in order to preserve it. It is in these circumstances that the plot against [Robespierre] was conceived, that an attempt was made to arm against [him] very unjust prejudices. I was left in peace like a citizen without pretensions and who walked alone, and it was by mistake that, by the vote of a few, I was charged with writing the [Committee’s reconciliation] report to bind me to ideas that are not mine.

I cannot marry evil; I explained it in front of the Committees […and] Billaud-Varenne said to Robespierre: ‘we are your friends; we have always walked together.’ This deception made my heart shudder. The day before he’d called him Pisistratus and drawn up his indictment.

[…] If one reflects carefully on what happened [yesterday on 8 Thermidor] one finds the application of all that I have said; that the man removed from the Committee by the most bitter treatment [Robespierre], when it was no longer composed, in fact, of more than two or three members present, this man justified himself before you. He did not, in truth, explain himself very clearly, but his isolation and the bitterness of his soul is some excuse. He does not know the history of his persecution; he knows only his misfortune.

He is constituted as a tyrant of public opinion […] and what exclusive right do you have over public opinion, you who find a crime in the art of touching souls? Do you find it bad that one is sensitive? […] The right to interest public opinion is a natural, imprescriptible, inalienable right and I see no usurper here except among those who would tend to oppress this right.”

— Saint-Just, undelivered speech of 9 Thermidor in defense of Robespierre (1794)

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

#Take that fucking break and then take another

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“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called ‘vital interests.’”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

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There was a whole lesson in Duo with sentences like this, and (what remains of the discussion threads) were full of comments like "lmfao" "amazing" etc, so I went looking-

Imagine being such a nob a language course dedicates a lesson to dunking on you!

#That was an iconic move

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BREAKING: Canada has become the first major Western ally of Israel to halt weapons exports to Israel.

Canada's parliament passed a non-binding motion calling on the government to stop sending weapons to Israel and the Foreign Minister has since confirmed that they will end its weapons shipments.

While the move falls short of a full arms embargo, it has drawn strong criticism from Israeli officials who are afraid it could trigger a domino effect among other Western countries.

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Germinal

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"[...] et souvent la crainte de mal faire m'empêche de faire. Je ne me découragerai pas cependant, je veux forcer la nature par un travail opiniâtre."

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"[...] and often the fear of doing something poorly prevents me from doing it. I will not get discouraged however. I want to force nature through a tenacious work."

— Prieur de la Côte-d'Or in a letter to Louis Bernard Guyton dated 23 July 1790

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The unnecessary slaughter of a perfectly healthy, sentient being who does not want to die is always cruel. This should not be a controversial statement on a website where people claim to care about ethics, animals and social justice. 

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I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind