#Lettre de June

[littlefrenchsims]

Cela fait un petit moment que je n'ai rien écris..

Le stress de la vie s'est apaisé . La routine est installé, Robyn a maintenant 9 mois , sa cinquième dents est en train de sortir et la sixième ne va pas tarder. Elle est très énergique, elle aime danser , crier . Les nuits sont bonne , la majorité du temps elle dort toute la nuit .

Pour Maribel , elle grandit à une grande vitesse . En ce moment elle ne veut plus aller à l'école, sans doute une phase, elle veut rester à la maison pour jouer. Elle dort bien, elle a également eu une phase moins sage , toujours à chercher le conflit, ne pas écouter, ne pas obéir mais c'est fini.

Pour Batman et moi , ça va également, les soucis de la vie sont terminé. Nous sommes plus sereins , des petites disputes pour des broutilles comme tous les couples. Mais nous profitons un maximum l'un de l'autre. Le printemps arrivent , nous avons hâte d'être dans le jardins et de faire des balades ensemble et avec les enfants aussi .

Nous parlons mariage également, un petit mariage , pas de fleuritures , pas de salle énorme, juste de l'amour sincère et simple .

Pour moi , ça va , je ne travail pas en ce moment malheureusement . Douleurs au genou , j'ai consulté les médecins et un chirurgien, j'ai plusieurs médicament à prendre mais si tout ce passe bien dans un mois c'est fini et je n'aurais pas besoin d'une opération. La douleur a été vraiment difficile à supporter , marcher , monter les escaliers , porter le bébé, conduire à l'école, tout ça été vraiment compliquer . Mais niveau morale aussi, j'ai mal vécu le fait d'être réduite, de me sentir comme un poids pour ma famille, pour mon chéri. J'ai garder ça en moi , j'avais honte de tout ça. Mais je soigne mon genou, ça va passer et je pourrais de nouveau promener marcher faire du vélo, vivre .

Notre maison est toujours emplie d'amour et c'est tout ce qui compte pour nous .

June

letter from June

#June #Oc; June #The Loving House Legacy #sims #ts3 #sims 3 #sims3 #simblr #simumblr #ts3 legacy #legacy #sims 3 legacy #sims3 legacy #the sims 3 legacy #the sims #legacy challenge #gen 1 #Lettre de June #Française #francais #journal intime

[firstfullmoon]

Puisque cette lettre est la dernière, que je te dise au moins ce que tu dois savoir, que je n’ai jamais cessé de t’aimer pendant ces deux mois, que tu as été ma pensée la plus neuve et la plus ancienne, mon appui, mon refuge, ma seule souffrance. Reçois-moi dans ton cœur, loin de tout bruit, abrite-moi encore un peu et commençons à vivre cet amour qui ne peut pas se lasser. [...] À bientôt, chérie, à tout de suite, j’en ris de bonheur, tout seul, stupidement, ému comme si c’était un 6 juin. 

Albert Camus à Maria Casarès, 21 août 1949

[Since this is my last letter, let me at least tell you what you need to know, that I have never stopped loving you during these two months, that you have been my newest and oldest thought, my support, my sanctuary, my only suffering. Receive me into your heart, far from any noise, shelter me a little longer and let’s begin to live this love that cannot tire. [...] See you soon, darling, see you very soon, I’m laughing with happiness, all alone, stupidly, moved as if it were June 6th (their anniversary).]

#stupidement ému comme si c’était un 6 juin !!!!!!!!!! #w #letters #albert camus #la terre en est plus vaste

[distanciaras]

Brussels, June 26, 2020

Caro Oliver, os dias se tornaram estranhos depois que você partira. Até o sol sentira sua falta; ele já não brilha como antes. O piar dos pássaros, assim como eu, soam tristes e melancólicos. As flores já não tem o mesmo cheiro gostoso, ou talvez seja o meu olfato que não ache mais tanta graça em sentir o perfume delas. E preciso dizer que os meus sentidos, que antes eram tão aguçados, já não sentem tanto assim. Aparentemente, os meus sentidos perderam os sentidos. Será que me compreende? Até o meu coração, que batia descompassado quando meus olhos se encontravam com os seus, depois que você foi embora, passou a apanhar todos os dias. Meus olhos, que antes eram elogiados com frequência, ficaram opacos, os brilhos deles se esconderam, assim como o céu azul. E não sei se você soube, mas depois que se foi, o céu desabou e chove todos os dias. Dentro de mim, Oliver, que antes vivia uma eterna primavera, nevou e o sol, que habitava em mim, se foi. O meu sol, era você.

Gabriela in Lettres à Paris.

#Spotify #gabrielap #lardepoetas #pequenosescritores #projetomardeescritos #projetovelhopoema #antiga convalescida #egoglas #eglogas #mentesexpostas #espalhepoesias

[empirearchives]

Is it true that Napoleon Bonaparte used to know and associate with the Robespierre brothers? Like from what I've heard, he was pretty serious about it, to the point that it hampered his career post-thermidor. (It would make the stereotypical depictions of the Terror in Napoleon 2023 pretty hillarious, honestly.)

Yeah, it’s true. According to Saliceti (a Montagnard politician from Corsica), Napoleon was “their man” (1).

The first known mention of Robespierre by Napoleon was on 23 January 1791. He wrote a piece called Lettre à Buttafuoco. Matteo Buttafuoco was a Corsican politician. In it, he writes: “O Lameth! Oh Robespierre! O Pétion! O Volney! O Mirabeau! O Barnave! O Bailly! O La Fayette! This is the man who dares to sit next to you!” (2)

Napoleon was a political ally of the Robespierre brothers. As far as I know, he never met the older Robespierre brother in person, but he did meet and know the younger brother. They were associates and even became friends. Augustin Robespierre wrote to his older brother “the citizen Bonaparte commanding the artillery is of transcendent merit.” (2)

In 1794, Napoleon accepted an “unofficial” position in the Committee of Public Safety’s war office, specifically at the historical and topographical office. While he worked there, he wrote to his brother “I am swamped with work at the Committee.” (3)

This is how Pontécoulant, who oversaw him at the topographical bureau, described Napoleon at this job:

“It was not a mere sinecure that he had accepted, he sometimes worked fifteen hours a day, . . . and the considerable number of memoranda, reports, letters, and documents of all kinds that he wrote . . . would fill several volumes. Never, even during the campaign of 1794, had the topographical office of the Committee of Public Safety . . . deployed such activity; he maintained continuous communications with the leaders of the different armies, and their staffs, astonished, learned from then on to know this nervous style, full of precision, movement and masculine energy.” (4)

It was during this time that he was asked to write a general memorandum on grand strategy. It was titled Sur la position politique et militaire de nos armées de Piémont et d'Espagne (On the political and military position of our armies of Piedmont and Spain). The person he submitted it to was Augustin Robespierre in June 1794.

Frank McLynn’s description of the memoranda:

“Basing his strategy on the writings of Guibert de Bourcet, Napoleon devised a plan that enabled the Army of Italy to advance to the watershed of the Maritime Alps, having secured control of the passes of Col d'Argentière, Tende and St-Bernard. With the enthusiastic support of Augustin Robespierre, who took Bonaparte's memorandum to Paris with him, Napoleon argued that if the French attacked in Piedmont, Austria would be forced to come to the aid of her Austrian possessions and thus weaken her position on the Rhine, allowing the French to strike a knockout blow there. Napoleon's chances of getting the plan accepted looked good, for his new commander-in-chief, General Dumerbion, deferred in all things to the political commissars; Saliceti and Augustin Robespierre, in turn, nodded through anything military that came from the pen of Napoleon.” (5)

Augustin sent Napoleon to Genoa for a diplomatic mission on 11 July 1794. So, the Robespierres were behind the beginning of Napoleon’s long diplomatic career. In fact, Napoleon was still on this mission when he learned about the death of the Robespierre brothers (28 July 1794).

Earlier that year, the younger Robespierre brother had actually proposed that Napoleon take command as head of the Paris National Guard and replace François Hanriot in Paris. Napoleon considered it, but decided to keep his post instead.

Hanriot was executed the same day as the Robespierre brothers. Who knows, perhaps the same fate would have happened to Napoleon had he accepted the offer.

Nevertheless, according to Jean Tulard “the 9th of Thermidor opens a difficult period for him”. (2) He was arrested in the south of France for his association with the Robespierre brothers. The order was signed on August 6th, and he was imprisoned for over a week (August 9th-20th).

The fact that Napoleon had been in a foreign country (Genoa) on a mission for the Robespierre brothers at the time of 9 Thermidor was used against him.

According to Patrice Gueniffey, “Napoleon spent his spare time reading the history of Marshal Maillebois’s campaigns in Italy and writing a long, self-justifying memorandum addressed to the representatives […] without saying anything against Robespierre”. (3)

The appeal which released him specified his military acumen. He was considered too crucially important to the war effort to kill or keep imprisoned.

“We are convinced of the possible utility to us of this soldier's talents, which, we cannot deny it, are becoming very necessary in an army that he knows better than anyone, and in which men of this kind are extremely difficult to find.” (3)

So he was released, with his head still attached to his body. But, the situation had definitely changed for him. The representatives were cautious about him and refused to reemploy Napoleon as commander of the artillery. Nevertheless, he continued to work on the campaigns as part of the staff of General Dumerbion, and working his way up from there.

In 1797, Napoleon evoked Robespierre in a speech in Ancona to a surprised dinner party. He defended Robespierre for his “alleged crimes” and said of him:

“Since its origin,” he tells us, “France has had only one strong government: that of Robespierre.”

The impression of horror that the memory of this man had left on everyone’s minds was so recent, so profound, that it is difficult to imagine the painful surprise this opinion excited, and with what ardor it was opposed. Far from abandoning it, General Bonaparte tenaciously supported it:

“What,” he said, “is a strong government? It is one which has a well-determined useful purpose; the firm will to achieve it; the force capable of making will triumph; finally, the intelligence necessary to properly lead this force. Let’s examine if Robespierre combined all these advantages: What was his goal? The triumph of the revolution. He felt that a counter-revolution would be more bloody, would lead to more cruel, more lasting evils than those that our revolution had demanded and would still require. So he wanted to accomplish it at all costs.” (6)

Did this association have an effect on Napoleon’s career? I would say it definitely impacted his reputation and the perception everyone had of him.

To Madame de Staël (and eventually Victor Hugo), Napoleon was “Robespierre on horseback” (2). Mallet du Pan calls Napoleon “a Corsican terrorist” (7). The royalist pamphleteers had titles like “Robespierre and Buonaparte or the two tyrannies” and “The Jacobins and Buonaparte or historical essay on the alliance of the two tyrannies which oppressed the French nation” (2). In them, Napoleon was described as a “worshiper of Marat, accomplice of Robespierre, vile complacent of Barras” (2). To Metternich, “Napoleon seemed to me the incarnation of the Revolution” (8). He tried to warn the other countries in Europe against making peace with France, because, to him, “No peace is possible with a revolutionary system, whether with a Robespierre who declares war on chateaux or a Napoleon who declares war on Powers” (9). William Pitt the Younger spoke of the “jacobinism of Robespierre, of Barrere” and called Napoleon “the child and the champion of all its atrocities and horrors” (10).

This is a royalist caricature of Napoleon created by Pierre-Marie Bassompierre Gaston. The caption says “One is always faithful to one's first love”. (Source)

Here is Napoleon’s stance on Robespierre:

“Robespierre died because he tried to stop the effects of the Revolution, and not as a tyrant. Those who wanted to bring him down were crueler than he was: Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, etc. He had against him Danton's party, which was powerful and immense. Probably he could not have acted otherwise. I believe that Robespierre was without ambition. . . . Everything I read in the Moniteur teaches me nothing, but it confirms me in the opinion that I had, and settles me in it even more. To be sure, Robespierre was not an ordinary man. He was very superior to everything around him. His discourse on the Supreme Being proves it. Disgusted by what he was hearing, he felt the necessity of a religious system among people who did not want anything, either religion or morals. Morality had to be raised up again. He had the courage to do it and he did it... That was great politics. No doubt he shed blood; that is the other side of the coin, but he is certainly less guilty than Tallien, who slaughtered Bordeaux, or Fréron whom I saw in Marseille taking poor unfortunates by the collar to have them shot. Those men were real killers. Had he [Robespierre] not succumbed, he would have been the most extraordinary man who appeared.” (3)

Sources:

(1) Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: A Life

(2) Jean Tulard, De Napoléon et de quelques autres sujets: Robespierre vu par Napoléon

(3) Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte: 1769–1802

(4) Le Doulcet de Pontécoulant, Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires

(5) Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography

(6) J. P. Collot, La chute de Napoléon

(7) Albert Sorel, L'Europe et la Révolution française, V. 5

(8) Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1773-1815 Vol. 1

(9) Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812–1822

(10) The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, V. 3

#Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #19th century #french empire #france #history #asks #my answers #answers #ask #augustin robespierre #robespierre

[psalm22-6]

Victor Hugo's opinion on depictions of Jean Valjean in fanart

So, in April 1862, 21 year old Julien Girard de Rialle published a  “Critique of the Critiques” of Les Misérables his newspaper the Revue théâtrale, littéraire et artistique, along with the above image by up-and-coming artist (and former bookstore employee) Rodolphe Julian. Naturally, de Rialle sent the paper to Victor Hugo, who sent this letter in reply:

Your April edition is only arriving to me in June. Absence has its displeasures to which one must be resigned. Your article charmed me. Nothing but grace, wit, and verve! I thank those who have the goodness to be my enemies, their attacks are caresses because they bring me such defenses.   I shake your hand, Monsieur.  Victor Hugo P.S. Please congratulate on my behalf the author of the drawing, which is truly lovely and which couldn't be clearer. The bishop is sleeping soundly, the convict is hesitating profoundly. Perhaps the beard is too long. It's only a few days' growth. I make this observation because other painters have made the same small mistake.

So there you have it: temper your desire to give Valjean too long a beard.

Source: Un article prenant la defense des Miserables, une gravure pour leur illustration, et la lettre de remerciement de Victor Hugo, procurés et commentés par Gérard Pouchain (Pouchain is such a treasure trove of information of Les Mis related content. If he didn't already exist, I would have to become him. )

#les miserables #jean valjean #victor hugo #contemporary reaction #lm illustration

[broomsticks]

intro wolfstar fic recs (fluffy/light angst)

an off-the-top-of-my-head intro to wolfstar reclist for a request on the wolfstar discord. criteria: requestee reads drarry, fluffy to light angst, "maybe classic marauders era for a taste of what the fic is typically like?" i went for (a) present-day active authors and (b) 2017ish "modern-day classics," <50k, mostly canon-setting.

(a) present-day active authors:

Upstairs, Downstairs by @squidgilator (5k, G): great little "intro" fic to one of my favorite hogwarts era pining/get-together authors, "In which Hogwarts traps Sirius and Remus on an endless staircase to make them talk to each other."

Cooler Than Frogs by Penknife (4k, T) & Not In Front Of the Dog! by Engie_Ivy (2k, T) are similar uniquely wolfstar/HP-magic adorable get-togethers.

Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy…Best Friend, Brother, Roommate, Lie by @femme--de--lettres (9k, T): muggle au, Hope Lupin keeps count of how many attempts it takes her son to finally admit that he's in love with his best friend. if you like this, author has two longfic WIPs (a spy AU and a law school AU with terrific rep that's very wonderfully and honestly done!)

on the issue of fever and delight by aeridi0nis (12k, T). post-prank fic, prangst get-together is one of the most classsiicccc wolfstar tropes ever. stellar characterization & just magical prose: "After the initial shock, Sirius closes his mouth. Clears his throat. He wears repentance poorly, as all former princes do; his spine seems reluctant to bend that way, so all he can scrounge up is a pathetic imitation of every other guilty person he’s ever witnessed. It’s perhaps the first time that Remus has seen him fall short in something."

by the same author, in lieu of beaujolais (18k, M) -- another brilliant post-hogwarts first war era muggle london flat-sharing & and then they were roommates/ oh my god they were roommates get-together that has lots of similar feels as 2015ish era ‘classic’ wolfstar.

(b) 2017ish "modern-day classics"

June, and Other Natural Disasters by montparnasse (5k, T) "sirius/remus, summer, huge gay crush". montparnasse is an absolutely classic 2015-2018ish era wolfstar writer with a Certain Writing Style and you either love it or you don't, & if you love this relatively short one, literally everything else in their catalogue are must-reads.

few more M-rated under read more

The things that lurk in the dark by TheDivineComedian (5k, M). MWPP era, sixth year. There's something terrifying in the dungeons. late enough to be 'classic' (tbh any A/N that uses the term mwpp instead of marauders era is straight away a 'classic'). no but seriously this has all the defining features of a classic wolfstar fic to me: strong characterizations of all four marauders, lovely Shenanigans vibe / they're Up To No Good, there's Trauma but make it funny, overall just a great blend of light and angst.

The Active Reader by veeagainst (7k, M). When a craze for pulpy romance novels about Dark Creatures starts in Gryffindor, Sirius reads one about a werewolf -- and decides to write a better one. hilarious, intellectual, and hot; who says you can't have it all! very engaging!!

The Weather Inside by earlybloomingparentheses (43k, M). a classic canon-setting 'falling in love during the first war' story, ensemble fic with background jily. plausibly canon compliant, fic ends happily.

that’s the art of getting by by sarewolf (40k, M). "angst with a happy ending" perfectly describes this fic, one of the best remus/wolfstar raises harry especially for its length / <50k fic, and an absolute modern-day classic (read: Gaerfinn will ban me if i don't rec this)

#wolfstar #wolfstar fic recs #harry potter fanfiction #hp fics #fic rec list

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Some primary sources

I plan to add more whenever I find more.

Historie Parlamentaire de la Révolution Française ou Journal des Assemblées Nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1815

Volume 1 (May 1789) Volume 2 (June-September 1789) Volume 3 (September-December 1789) Volume 4 (December 1789-March 1790) Volume 5 (March-May 1790) Volume 6 (May-August 1790) Volume 7? Volume 8 (November 1790-February 1791) Volume 9 (February-May 1791) Volume 10 (May-July 1791) Volume 11 (July-September 1791) Volume 12 (September-December 1791) Volume 13 (January-March 1792) Volume 14 (April-June 1792) Volume 15 (June-July 1792) Volume 16 (July-August 1792) Volume 17 (August-September 1792) Volume 18 (September 1792) Volume 19 (September-October 1792) Volume 20 (October-November 1792) Volume 21 (November-December 1792) Volume 22 (December 1792-January 1793) Volume 23 (January 1793) Volume 24 (February-March 1793) Volume 25 (March-April 1793) Volume 26 (April-May 1793) Volume 27 (May 1793) Volume 28 (July-August 1793) Volume 29 (September-October 1793) Volume 30 (October-December 1793) Volume 31 (November 1793-March 1794) Volume 32 (March-May 1794) Volume 33 (May-July 1794) Volume 34 (July-August 1794)

Recueil des actes du comité de salut public Volume 1 (August 12 1792-January 21 1793) Volume 2 (January 22-March 31 1793) Volume 3 (April 1-May 5 1793) Volume 4 (6 May-18 June 1793) Volume 5 (19 June-15 August 1793) Volume 6 (15 August-21 September 1793) Volume 7 (22 September-24 October 1793) Volume 8 (25 October-26 November 1793) Volume 9 (27 November-31 December 1793) Volume 10 (1 January-8 February 1794) Volume 11 (9 February-15 March 1794) Volume 12 (16 March-22 April 1794) Volume 13 (23 April-28 May 1794) Volume 14 (29 May-7 July 1794) Volume 15 (8 July-9 August 1794)

Recueil de documents pour l’histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris Volume 1 (1789-1790) Volume 2 (January-July 1791) Volume 3 (July 1791-June 1792) Volume 4 (June 1792-January 1793) Volume 5 (January 1793-March 1794) Volume 6 (March-November 1794)

Histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris: avec le journal de ses actes. Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3  Volume 4  Volume 5 

Papiers inédits trouvés chez Robespierre, Saint-Just, Payan etc Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Oeuvres complètes de Robespierre Volume 1 (Robespierre à Arras) Volume 2 (Les œuvres judiciaires) Volume 3 is the correspondence, listed below Volume 4 (Le defenseur de la Constitution) Volume 5 (lettres à ses comettras) Volume 6 (speeches 1789-1790) Volume 7 (speeches January-September 1791) Volume 8 (speeches October 1791-September 1792) Volume 9 (speeches September 1792-June 27 1793) Volume 10 (speeches June 27 1793-July 27 1794)

Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (not the same as Oeuvres completés) Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Oeuvres de Jerome Pétion Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Just Volume 1 Volume 2

Oeuvres littéraires de Hérault de Séchelles (1907)

Oeuvres de Danton (1866) 

Discours de Danton (1910) by André Fribourg

Works by Desmoulins

La France Libre (1789)

Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens (1789)

Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789-1791) Volume 1 (number 1-13) Volume 2 (number 14-26) Volume 3 (number 27-39) Volume 4 (number 40-52) Volume 5 (number 53-65) Volume 6 (number 66-79) Volume 7 (number 80-86)

La Tribune des Patriots (1792) (all numbers)

Le Vieux Cordelier (1793-1794) (all numbers)

Jean Pierre Brissot démasqué (1792)

Histoire des Brissotins (1793)

Correspondences

Correspondance de Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre (1926)

Correspondance de George Couthon (1872)

Correspondance inédit de Camille Desmoulins (1836)

Correspondance inédite de Marie-Antoinette (1864)

Billuad-Varennes — mémoires et correspondance

Correspondance de Brissot

Lettres de Louis XVI: correspondance inédite, discours, maximes, pensées, observations etc (1862)

Lettres de Madame Roland (1900)  Volume 1  Volume 2

Correspondance inédite de Mlle Théophile Fernig (1873)

Journal d’une bourgeoise pendant la Révolution 1791-1793 by Rosalie Jullien (1881)

Memoirs

Memoirs of Bertrand Barère Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

Memoirs of Élisabeth Lebas In French In English

Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1835) In French In English

Memoirs of Joseph Fouché Volume 1 (English) Volume 2 (French)

Mémoires de Brissot (1877)

Mémoires inédits de Pétion et mémoires de Buzot et Barbaroux (1866)

Memoirs of Barras — member of the Directorate (1899)

Mémoires inédits de madame la comtesse de Genlis depuis 1756 jusqu’au nos jours  Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3  Volume 4  Volume 5  Volume 6  Volume 7  Volume 8  Volume 9  Volume 10

Mémoires de Madame Roland  Volume 1  Volume 2

Mémoires de Louvet (1862)

Memoirs of the Duchess de Tourzel: Governess to the Children of France During the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1795  Volume 1  Volume 2

Révélations puisées dans les cartons des comités de salut public et de sûreté générale, ou Mémoires (inédits) de Sénart, agent du gouvernement révolutionnaire (1824)

Free books

Danton (1978) by Norman Hampson (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Robespierre (2014) by Hervé Leuwers (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Collot d’Herbois — légendes noires et Révolution (1995) by Michel Biard 

Choosing Terror (2014) by Marisa Linton

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (2015) by Timothy Tackett

Augustin: the younger Robespierre by (2011) by Mary-Young

Journaliste, sans-culotte et thermidorien: le fils de Fréron, 1754-1802, d’après des documents inédits (1909) by Raoul Arnaud

Un Champion de la Royauté au début de la Révolution - François Louis Suleau (1907) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Camille Desmoulins and his wife — passages from the history of the dantonists (1876) by Jules Claretie

Vadier, président du Comité de sûreté générale sous la Terreur d’après des documents inédits (1896) by Albert Tournier

Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot (1824)

Le Puy-de-Dôme en 1793 et le Proconsulat de Couthon (1877) by Francisque Mège

Le procès des Dantonistes, d'après les documents, précédé d'une introduction historique. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution française (1879) edited by Dr. Jean François Eugène Robinet

Robert Lindet, député à l'Assemblée législative et à la Convention, membre du Comité de salut public, ministre des finances : notice biographique (1899) by Amand Montier

Prieur de la Côte-d'Or (1900) by Paul Gaffarel

Un épicurien sous la Terreur; Hérault de Séchelles (1759-1794); d'après des documents inédits (1907) by Emile Dard

Twelve Who Ruled (1941) by R. R. Palmer (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Bertrand Barère: A Reluctant Terrorist (1963) by Leo Gershoy (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Saint-Just : sa politique et ses missions (1976) by Jean-Pierre Gross (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

The Glided Youth of Thermidor (1993) by François Gendron

Pauline Léon, une républicaine révolutionnaire by Claude Guillon

Billaud-Varenne: Géant de la Révolution (1989) by Arthur Conte

When the King Took Flight (2003) by Timothy Tackett (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Joseph Le Bon, 1765-1795; la terreur à la frontière (1932) by Louis Jacob  Volume 1  Volume 2

Resources shared by other tumblr users (thank you all very much!!!)

Resources shared by @iadorepigeons

Resources shared by @georgesdamnton 

Resources shared by @rbzpr:

Fabre d’Eglantine resources shared by @edgysaintjust

Saint-Just resources shared by @sieclesetcieux

Saint-Just resources shared by @orpheusmori

Marat resources shared by @orpheusmori

My own translations

Lucile Desmoulins’ diary (1788, 1789, 1790, 1792-1793)

Charlotte Robespierre et ses amis (1961)

Laponneraye on the life of Charlotte Robespierre (1835)

Abbé Proyart on the childhood of Robespierre (1795)

Regulations for the internal exercises of the College of Louis-le-Grand (1769)

Regulations for law students at Louis-le-Grand (1782)

Belongings left by Danton, Fabre and Desmoulins after their arrest

Letters from Robespierre’s father

Robespierre family timeline

#frev resources #frev #french revolution #maximilen robespierre #augustin robespierre #robespierre #george couthon #couthon #camille desmoulins #desmoulins #joseph fouché #fouché #charlotte robespierre #elisabeth lebas #elisabeth duplay #billaud-varennes #jerome Pétion #jacques-pierre brissot #saint-just

[girlsdressingrooms]

Claude Montana, "Dream Maker"

(29 June 1947 – 23 February 2024)

Claude Montana began his career in London with a jewelry line that was instantly noticed by the professional press. When he returned to Paris in the late 60s, he joined John Voigt's team at Mac Douglas, where he learned leatherwork, which he would later democratize through his own collections.

In 1975, he presented his first fashion show, to international acclaim. He launched his own House in 1979, assisted by his sister Jacqueline, and joined the Official Calendar of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall-Winter 1981/1992, in April 1981. In 1989, he became artistic director of Lanvin, where he successfully experimented with Haute Couture.

During his time there, he was awarded two Dés d'or for the Autumn-Winter 1990-1991 and Spring-Summer 1991 collections.

After leaving Lanvin, he launches a new ready-to-wear line, Odyssée. Claude Montana was promoted to Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in July 2014.

Claude Montana leaves an indelible legacy in the fashion industry, his singular style still inspiring many contemporary designers.

With his unique vision and boundless approach he created his own vocabulary of fashion that continues to live on today; inspiring contemporary designers such as Alexander McQueen – who cited Montana in many of his collections – and most recently Montana’s influences can be seen in the sumptuous proportions of Tom Ford’s debut women’s wear collection.

As power dressing makes a return to the catwalk, it is Montana’s 1980s designs that create the basis for Stella McCartney’s autumn/winter 2011 voluminous silhouette, Balmain’s pointed and padded shoulders and Martin Margiela’s exaggerated angles.

Your work will forever be timeless and legendary.

Rest In Power !

#art #design #fashion #women's fashion #dressing room #luxury lifestyle #iconic #rip #rip claude montana #claude montana #stella mccartney #balmain #alexander mcqueen #tom ford #martin margiela #mac douglas #womenswear #lanvin #timeless

[microcosme11]

Letter to 13-year-old Hortense

Quartier général, Milan, 22 prairial an IV [10 juin 1796]

J’ai reçu votre aimable lettre au milieu des horreurs de la guerre. Il n’est rien de plus charmant que ce qui me rappelle le souvenir d’aimables enfants que j’aime pour eux et parce qu’ils appartiennent à la personne du monde qui m’intéresse le plus.

Vous êtes une méchante et très méchante. Vous voulez me mettre en contradiction. Sachez donc, aimable Hortense, que lorsque l’on dit du mal des hommes l’on s’expose.

Lorsque l’on dit du mal des femmes, l’on excepte celles dont les charmes et la douce influence a captivé notre cœur et absorbé tous nos sentiments… Et puis, vous le savez bien, votre maman est incomparable sur la terre, personne ne joint à son inaltérable douceur ce je-ne-sais-quoi qu’elle inspire à tout ce qui l’entoure. Si quelque chose pouvait ajouter au bonheur que j’ai de lui appartenir, c’est les doux devoirs qu’il m’impose à votre égard. J’aurai pour vous les sentiments de père et vous aimerai comme votre meilleur ami… Mais je suis fâché contre vous, contre votre bonne maman, elle m’avait promis de venir me voir et elle ne vient pas. Le temps est long loin de ce que l’on aime. Jugez du plaisir que j’aurais réhaussé à vous voir, à discuter avec vous et à vous conter des histoires terribles. Une petite part dans votre souvenir. Un baiser à Eugène à qui je dois écrire. Croyez-moi pour la vie.

Vôtre

Bonaparte

P.S. Vous devez avoir reçu la petite boite de parfums. Je vous rapporterai cent belles choses.

---

Headquarters, Milan, 22 prairial year IV [June 10, 1796]

I received your kind letter amidst the horrors of war. There is nothing more charming than that which reminds me of lovely children whom I love for themselves and because they belong to the person in the world who interests me the most.

You are bad, very bad. You want to contradict me. Please know, kind Hortense, that when we speak ill of men we expose ourselves.

When we say bad things about women, we except those whose charms and gentle influence have captivated our hearts and absorbed all our feelings… And then, you know well, your mother is incomparable on earth, no one joins unalterable sweetness with the je ne sais quoi that she inspires in everything around her. If anything could add to the happiness I have in belonging to her, it is the sweet duties she imposes on me towards you. I would have the feelings of a father for you and would love you as your best friend… But I am angry with you, with your good mother; she promised to come to see me and she is not coming. It’s a long time away from those we love. Judge the pleasure I would have had seeing you, talking with you and telling you terrible stories. A small part in your memory. A kiss to Eugène to whom I should write. Trust me for life.

Your

Bonaparte

P.S. You should have received the small box of perfumes. I will bring you a hundred beautiful things.

napoleonica

#Napoleon's correspondence #hortense de beauharnais

[josefavomjaaga]

From a letter Eugène de Beauharnais wrote to his sister on 3 Messidor an VIII (22 June 1800), a couple of days after the battle of Marengo. He's on his way home, like the rest of the French troops, and tells his sister that Murat feels depressed.

[Transcription and translation to the best of my abilities.]

Murat est bien triste, il n'a pas reçu une lettre de sa femme depuis qu'elle l'a quitté. C'est affreux à Caroline si elle est dans son tort. Je le console du mieux que je peux mais c'est une entreprise un peu difficile.

Murat is very sad, he hasn't received a single letter from his wife since she left him. It's terrible for Caroline if she's in the wrong. I'm consoling him as best as I can, but it's a rather difficult business.

Considering that Hortense and Caroline were close friends and Hortense surely would tell her, I assume Eugène probably wrote this in order to get the message to Caroline and to warn her about Murat's state of mind. I also assume that this was merely a case of delayed mail during wartimes, and of Murat being overly emotional as was often the case.

#napoleon's marshals #joachim murat #napoleon's family #eugene de beauharnais #hortense de beauharnais #caroline murat #milan 1800 #battle of marengo

[myhughniverse]

World Music Awards - via social media - "Happy Birthday to the gorgeous chart-topping, history making, top-selling Singer, Actress, Fashionista, Global Icon and Legend, the One & Only Kylie Minogue!

Kylie Minogue is the best-selling Australian Female Recording-Artist of All Time, with record sales of over 80 Million! Time named her one of the most influential people in the world! Kylie became famous starring in the Australian Soap Opera 'Neighbours' from 1986-88! She began her music career in the late 80's, becoming hugely popular after releasing 4 very successful dance/pop albums via PWL, and scored several top ten singles in Australia and the UK, including with the hits "The Loco-Motion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Especially for You", "Hand on Your Heart" and "Better the Devil You Know". In 1993 Kylie signed with Deconstruction Records and released the albums 'Kylie Minogue' (1994) and 'Impossible Princess' (1997). In 1999, she released the #1 hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". 'Fever' (2001) became her best-selling album to date, spawning the smash hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head" which she performed at the 2002 World Music Awards! It became one of the most played, top-selling singles of the 2000s, with over 5 million units sold. "In Your Eyes" and "Love at First Sight" were also huge hits! Kylie continued to release global hits including "Slow", "I Believe in You", "2 Hearts" and "All the Lovers". In 2023, Kylie made a huge comeback with the critically acclaimed and hugely successful album 'Tension' which debuted at #1 in Australia and the UK. With its lead single, "Padam Padam", she became the only female artist to achieve a UK top 1O hit from the 1980s to the 2020s. The single won her an ARIA Award for Best Pop Release and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Dance Recording. In November 2023, Kylie embarked on a concert residency, 'More Than Just a Residency', at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The show sold out within minutes. Kylie is also a very talented actress having starred in 'The Delinquents' (1989), 'Street Fighter' (1994), 'Moulin Rouge!' (2001), 'Holy Motors' (2012) and 'San Andreas' (2015). She is also a big TV star, appearing as a judge on The Voice UK and The Voice Australia in 2014. Her other ventures include product endorsements, books, perfumes, charitable work and a wine brand. Kylie's Awards include 2 Grammys, 2 MTV Video Music Awards, 3 World Music Awards, 3 MTV Europe Music Awards, 4 Brit Awards including the Global Icon Award in 2024, 6 Mo Awards and 18 ARIA Music Awards! In August 2004, she held the record for the most #1 singles in the ARIA singles chart (9)! In January 2011, she received a Guinness World Record for the most consecutive decades with top 5 albums in the UK! In February 2011, she made history charting 2 songs in the top 3 on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart, with "Better than Today" at #1 and "Higher" at #3! In June 2012, the UK Official Charts Company named her the 12th best-selling singer of All Time, and the 3rd best-selling female artist, with over 10 Million singles sold! In December 2016, Billboard ranked her the 18th most successful dance artist of all time, honouring her with the Women in Music's Icon Award earlier this year. In November 2020, she became the only female artist to reach #1 on the UK Albums Chart in five consecutive decades! In 2007, Kylie became the 1st Female to receive a Music Industry Trust award for her 20-year career, hailed 'an icon of pop and style'! In July 2008, she was invested by Charles III as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in January 2019, she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia. Kylie is an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an honorary Doctor of Health Science

#Kylie Minogue #Kylie's Birthday #The One and Only Kylie

[maybebabyplease]

thank you for the tags @soloorganaas and @fruity-individual love you both!!

currently reading: oh god literally so many things. a wonderful short story collection and [spooks] by the lovely lovely @femme--de--lettres and a friend’s screenplay and the manuscripts for my writing workshop in june and a lot of work emails

fave color: g r e e n

last song: hey hey what can i do - led zeppelin

last movie: john wick 4 lmfao

sweet/spicy/savory: spicy (until my nose runs and my eyes water!)

currently working on: angels & demons, my r/s big bang fic, a short story for a different writing workshop, and a fic for another fest that i shan’t name (but you will all be shocked at the pairing!) (or you won’t be shocked at all) (idk) (tell me in september-ish)

oooh i’m so late to this + trying to remember who i’ve seen do it so ignore me if you’ve been tagged but: @pancakehouse @colgatebluemintygel @mblematic @tahtahfornow @lynxindisguise @tigolbittys @serethereal @thebloatedfrog @blackberry-sunset

#on a real led zeppelin kick lately #no one say SHIT about my dad ok #tag game #that i am late to like always #cannot help myself #sorry but tumblr is just not as good as vanderpump rules right now! #tequila katie gang RISE

[impishtubist]

So if Google isn’t lying to me, Father’s Day in the UK is June 18th............which happens to also be Sirius’s death day.

@femme--de--lettres time to revive Sad Sirius Sunday? 😂

[greyeyedmonster-18]

My Year in Fic

thank you for the tag @sequinhaze the tumblr user formerly known as battlehamster. i am not going to make lines about all the fics i wrote here for tumblr, just the ones for AO3 <3

January:

ten reasons (to go to michigan) (muggle AU wolfstar)

You make me…you remind me of who I was before the world chewed me up and spit me out. 

Fault Lines (AU divorced wolfstar)

When the crack in the foundation first appeared, Sirius ignored it, naming it grief and deciding it was just going to be something else they were going to have to live with. 

March:

No Matter the Wreckage (canon hogwarts wolfstar)

Sirius cocked an eyebrow at him, and it made Remus want to keep his hand there for the rest of the evening, “Are we going to kiss now? Can’t just go grabbing me like that and not deliver, Moony, sends the wrong message,” he teased. 

June:

1% inspiration, 99% perspiration (one-shot moonchaser)

But the sweet words, the kind words, the poetic words would vanish, and Remus was left hearing just do it. A muggle campaign slogan James had seen once, and now it was part of his bedroom vocabulary. A coitus colloquialism.

August:

postcard from paris (magic-AU moonchaser)

Because Remus had a wishbone where his backbone should’ve been and would cave if James so much as looked at him for too long.

i think i can be proud of myself for this small in quantity but mighty load. the theme for this year is "dr. grey writes when they're on break from school" *gesturing to the figures written in summer and winter*.

tagging @femme--de--lettres my bestie.

#a year of fics

[psalm22-6]

Les Misérables, by M. Victor Hugo, tomes III and IV [aka what we would call Volume II: Cosette] The story now has for a heroine the daughter of Fantine, the woman who, in the midst of deprivation, was able to keep all her maternal feelings. In these next volumes there are, once again, numerous episodes and the first one is a bombastic account of the battle of Waterloo. But this episode only serves as a lead up to the theft of a watch from the pocket of a dead soldier. It is akin to a mountain which gives birth to a mouse. As for the rest of these big new volumes, there can be found within the same great qualities and faults that we signaled in the first volumes.

[. . .] Appearing alongside the continuation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables are two works which are themselves quite miserable; one written with blood, the other with mud. They are Mysteries of the Scaffold, memoirs of seven generations of executioners, advertised to be by Sanson and Canler’s Memoirs, Canler being the former police chief of the sûreté under Louis-Philippe. The Sanson in question is the son of the executioner who cut off the head of Louis XVI; he (the son) was dismissed ten or so years ago and who would believe it? A large number of applicants presented themselves for the terrible position which was to be filled. [According to Wikipedia it was actually the grandson, Henry-Clément Sanson, who republished the text in 1862 under the new name, due to money problems. The original text was partially written by Balzac.]  

Source: Journal des arts, des sciences et des lettres, 30 June 1862

#les miserables #my translation #contemporary reaction #part 3

[daemonicdasein]

Chronology of the Marquis de Sade’s life from How to Read Sade by John Phillips, W. W. Norton (September 17, 2005), Pages 112-114.

1740 2 June: birth of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, lord of La Coste, Saumane and Mazan in Provence. He was brought up in the palace of the Prince de Condé, who was four years older.

1746: Sent to live with his uncle, the abbé de Sade, at Saumane in Provence.

1750: Pursues his studies at the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris. The Jesuits infect him with a life-long enthusiasm for the theatre.

1755: Appointed sub-lieutenant in the King’s infantry regiment. In the course of active service in the Seven Years War is promoted to the rank of captain.

1763 17 May: marriage to Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil.

1763 October: briefly imprisoned at Vincennes for allegedly whipping Jeanne Testard, a fan-maker.

1765: Liaison with Mademoiselle de Beauvoisin, an actress.

1767: Death of his father, the comte de Sade, and birth of his first son, Louis-Marie.

1768: The Rose Kellar affair: imprisoned for six months initially at Saumur, then at Pierre-Encise near Lyons for alleged acts of libertinage, sacrilege and sadism on Easter Sunday in his house at Arcueil.

1769: Birth of his second son, Donatien-Claude-Armand.

1771: Birth of his daughter, Madeleine-Laure. Briefly imprisoned for debt.

1772 17 June: the Marseilles affair: Sade and his valet are found guilty of sodomy and attempted poisoning on the occasion of an orgy in Marseilles. Both flee to Italy, accompanied by Sade’s younger sister-in-law, Anne-Prospère. Sentenced to death in absentia, their effigies are burnt publicly at Aix.

1772 8 December: arrested and imprisoned at Miolans in Piedmont.

1773 1 May: escapes and eventually returns to La Coste. Sade’s mother-in-law, the Présidente de Montreuil, embittered by the seduction of Anne-Prospère, obtains a lettre de cachet for his arrest and imprisonment.

1775: Flees once again to Italy.

1777: Fresh scandals at La Coste, this time involving young girls employed at the château.

1778: The accusations of attempted poisoning having been dismissed, the death sentence imposed by the Aix parlement is lifted, but the Présidente uses her influence to obtain a new lettre de cachet. Sade escapes but is recaptured and returned to Vincennes. He will remain in prison until the Revolution.

1781: Writes the first of a succession of plays, The Inconstant.

1782: Writes the Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man and begins The 120 Days of Sodom.

1784 29 February: transferred from Vincennes to the Bastille.

1786: Writes the greater part of his ‘philosophical’ novel Aline et Valcour.

1787: Composition of The Misfortunes of Virtue, the first novella-length version of Justine. Begins writing his collection of short stories, originally entitled Tales and Fabliaux of Eighteenth Century by a Provençal Troubadour, a selection of which will eventually be published in 1799 under the title The Crimes of Love.

1789 2 July: Sade incites the mob to riot from his cell window in the Bastille, telling them that prisoners are being murdered.

1789 4 July: sent to the insane asylum at Charenton, leaving behind a number of manuscripts, including The 120 Days of Sodom which he will never see again.

1789 14 July: the fall of the Bastille and the start of the Revolution.

1790 1 April: Sade is released following abolition of lettres de cachet by the new revolutionary government. Formal separation from Renée-Pélagie and start of a new relationship with Constance Quesnet, nicknamed ‘Sensitive’, which will last until his death. Actively involved in revolutionary politics, promoting hospital reform. Tries unsuccessfully to get his plays performed.

1791: Anonymous publication of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue, the second version of the Justine narrative, and performance of his play The Comte d’Oxtiern, or the Effects of Libertinism.

1792: Composes various revolutionary essays, including The Idea on the Method for the Sanctioning of Laws.

1793: Publishes a pamphlet in honour of Marat following his murder by Charlotte Corday. When the opportunity presents itself, Sade, who has been appointed a judge in his revolutionary section, does not sentence his in-laws to death. Suspected of moderation and royalist sympathies, Sade is arrested in December.

1794: Sade escapes death owing to a bureaucratic error, and is eventually released at the end of the Terror, following the fall and execution of Robespierre.

1795: Penniless owing to the loss of his lands and property in the Revolution, Sade tries to stage more plays. Publishes Aline and Valcour, and, anonymously, Philosophy in the Boudoir.

1799: Anonymous publication of The New Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue, followed by The History of Juliette, her Sister, or the Prosperities of Vice, and publication in Sade’s own name of The Crimes of Love. Works as a prompt in a Versailles theatre for 40 sous a day.

1801: Sade arrested at his publishers in April for authorship of ‘obscene’ writings, and imprisoned at Sainte-Pélagie.

1803: Transferred to Bicêtre, then to Charenton.

1804: Sade’s continued detention justified by the invention of a new medical condition, ‘libertine dementia’.

1807: Confiscation of the libertine novel The Days at Florbelle, or Nature unveiled, begun in 1804. The manuscript will be destroyed at the behest of his younger son after his death.

1808: Organizes theatrical performances, using asylum inmates and professional actresses.

1812-13: Writes Adelaide of Brunswick, Princess of Saxony, The Secret History of Isabelle of Bavaria and The Marquis de Gange, all conventional historical novels.

1813-14: Affair with the sixteen-year-old laundry-maid Madeleine Leclerc.

1814 2 December: Sade’s death, followed by interment in the Charenton cemetery with full religious rites.

#the marquis de sade #western philosophy #chronology #biography #enlightenment #literature #French literature #French philosophy #libertinism #sadeian #sadean #how to read sade #John Phillips #Justine #Juliette #French Revolution #Scientific Revolution #France #18th century Philosophy #19th century Philosophy