#camile Enjolras

[leverontdemain]

They were part of the 6 characters to make fanart of..

#les mis #les miserables #french revolution #frev #art #enjolras #camille desmoulins

[little-orphan-ant]

Ami name hcs (plus reasoning)

disclaimer a lot of this is just me infodumping about names. i really like names.

Alexandre Enjolras - yeah idk i just stole this from the fandom. Enj despises being called Alex though (he will punch you in the face :D), if you must shorten Alexandre he prefers Andre or Al/Allie

Florian Combeferre - i fucking love this name. according to wikipedia it's a saint name, which im like 80 percent sure was popular Back in the Day, so it works for canon era which im happy abt. in modern day France, the name Florian peaked in 1991 at number 9 for boys before promptly dropping out of the top 500 by 2020 for some reason. but when Ferre was born it would still have been pretty popular.

Olivier Courfeyrac - idk it just fits him. similar to Florian, Olivier was uncommon but not unheard of in canon era, and also dropped out of the top 500 a few years back. however, Olivier peaked back in the early 1970s. although it was still being given to several hundred kids a year by when modern!courf would have been born, i hc that he was named after a relative who died soon before his birth.

Camille Feuilly - in both modern-day and canon era France, Camille is seen as a gender-neutral name, which is great because i hc Feuilly has enby-spec. since Feuilly is an orphan, xe may have named xirself after the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins, but i must admit that I only skimmed his wikipedia page and maybe this Camille was an asshole idk. also i found a French artist born in 1934 named Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and he's pretty cool ig. painting are nice but not as nice as Gainsborough Dupont's ofc

Jean-Marie "Jehan" Prouvaire - of course, we already know Jehan's name, but I added Marie just bc i can

Corentin Bahorel - if you call Bahorel Cory he with smite you btw (like enj they bond over it). Corentin peaked in France at 21 in 1996, but was also very popular during the Revolutionary Period so. thats good.

Valentin Joly - means 'health', i mostly gave him this name bc Irony. as a kid, Joly went by 'Val' and Bahorel, who knew him as a kid still calls him that. Valentin managed to make it to number 11 in France in 1998, and while uncommon, was in fact a name in canon era (like literally all of these akjddsfsa). also i found a French painter called Valentin de Boulogne from the 1600s who died after taking a dip in a fountain while drunk and freezing to death which. slay.

Louis Lesgles - I mean. i can't give all of them cool names. Bossuet gets to be Louis. his family were royalists and named him after all 17 (?) Louis of Frances. that's one of the reasons he goes by Bossuet, he doesn't want to be associated w a (scoff) king

Claud-René Grantaire - i cannot take credit for this it was @jolys-cane (hello). but yeah Very Good. double thumbs up i'd say. maybe even triple. both Claud(e) and René fell out of favor for boys in france around 1990, so our R would have been born *just* (a decade) to soon for it to be popular (eg not in the top 500). works for canon era as well. R tolerates his name, but Only his family is allowed to call him just René. anyone else must say both.

might do this for non-ami characters sometime (god i hope i didnt forget any of them lkjfksd) idk always love an excuse to talk abt a (minor) hyperfixation

#les mis #les amis #les amis de l'abc #les miserables #les misérables #why are my tags so fucked up rn #enjolras #grantaire #bossuet #lesgles #joly #bahorel #jean prouvaire #jehan prouvaire #combeferre #feuilly #courfeyrac

[sieclesetcieux]

My Writings and Contributions

Translations of Frev Sources

Media and books influenced by Thermidorian propaganda

Here are some facts we take for granted that revolutionaries didn't know that will blow your mind

Learning to Be a Lawyer in 18thc France

Brief historiography on women, the law, marriage and divorce (scroll down)

Brief overview of the Thermidorian Reaction

On Saint-Just's Personality: An Introduction

Saint-Just in Five (Long) Sentences

Random Sources and References on Saint-Just's Youth (In French)

Louise Michel's Poem on Saint-Just

On Charles Le Bas, Philippe's brother and Élisabeth Duplay's second husband

References on Couthon

Book and article recommendations:

The "short" version

Part 1 - A Note On Objectivity and Two Approaches (introduction) + Culture: Enlightenment and Antiquity

Part 2 - Ideological Stakes

Part 3 - Old Classics and Syntheses

Part 4 - Specific Topics and Areas of Research

Part 5 - Side-related but still important

Part 6 - Highlights and Short Reviews

My Posts In Progress and Eventual Research:

My thoughts and analysis of Saint-Just's unsent letter to Villain d’Aubigny

A (brief?) introduction to Saint-Just’s many faces and myths

Could Saint-Just have been neurodivergent?

Why Enjolras was inspired by Saint-Just: comparing the text of the brick to Saint-Just’s Romantic Myth

An Episode of the Thermidorian Reaction: the Attack on the Club des Jacobins and the Misogynist Targetting of Women

How the pamphlet about the Club infernal locates them in the circle of Wrath and not Treason - the latter would out them as counterrevolutionaries

Can we call the French Revolution a "fandom"? The invention of celebrity culture, etc.

The differences between Thermidorian propaganda and Anglo-American propaganda (and where they overlap)

Other Important Posts

Some primary and secondary sources available online for free (by anotherhumaninthisworld; some additions by myself)

Frev Resources (by iadorepigeons)

Myths and misconceptions about the French Revolution

Anglo American historiography (by saintjustitude and dykespierre)

On the Terror's Death Toll and Donald Greer (by montagnarde1793) More about this topic here and here (by lanterne, anotherhumaninthisworld, frevandrest and radiospierre)

On Robespierre's Black Legend (by rbzpr)

On Thermidorian propaganda (by lanterne)

On Couthon (by iadorepigeons)

Marat Ressource Masterpost (by orpheusmori)

Collaborative Masterpost on Saint-Just (many authors)

Saint-Just Masterpost (by obscurehistoricalinterests)

One myth on Saint-Just (by saintjustitude and frandrest)

Saint-Just as political philosopher and theorist (by saintjustitude)

Élisabeth Lebas corrects Alphonse de Lamartine’s Histoire des Girondins (1847) (by anotherhumaninthisworld)

On Charlotte Robespierre's memoirs (by montagnarde1793 and saintjustitude)

On Simonne Évrard (French and English biography copy-pasted by saintjustitude from the ARBR website)

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

Were Robespierre and Desmoulins together at Louis-le-Grand? (by robespapier and anotherhumaninthisworld)

Robespierre was not Horace Desmoulins' godfather (by robespapier and anotherhumaninthisworld)

The relationship of Camille Desmoulins and Robespierre in literary works of Przybyszewska (by edgysaintjust)

Last edited: 16/05/2023

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#masterpost #to be updated #doing this almost killed me -_-;

[jolys-cane]

name hcs because why not

Jean-Louis Enjolras

Etienne Combeferre

Jean-Paul Feuilly

Camille Marcel Courfeyrac

Antoine Bahorel

Henri Lesgles

Lucas Joly

Claude-René Grantaire

[bowofgold]

quotes i like,,, just because <3

song: le cygne, camille saint-saëns

Yes, it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore. ~ Sophocles, Electra

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. ~ Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

"Do you permit it?" Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. This smile was not ended when the report resounded. ~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid. ~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

that's all, have a good day <3

#quotes #aesthetic #electra #the song of achilles #les miserables #the picture of dorian gray #the goldfinch #how to tag? #guys. guys. #classical music ON TOP #idk what else to do

[edgysaintjust]

why is saint just sometimes called emo/edgy?? Yes, I'm asking you solely based on your username, i just don't understand the joke

Hello Anon!

There is the strongly romanticised image of Saint-Just, both thermidorianized and not, about him being dark and angelic [let's count it as emo], portrayed in a similar way in both historiography, poetry and pop culture. The image continued to exist in various forms and originated in the 19c.

It's not accurate. It's far from the actual, historical Saint-Just and his personality, no matter if we talk about the cold and ruthless archangel, or less violent, virtuous but distant and still equally angelic revolutionary. This idea flows and evolves, but has always been present somewhere since the 19c and in both positive and negative romantic trends; in positive light you can see, let us use quite a popular example to recognize on spot, the character of Enjolras from Victor Hugo's novel. The negative aspect is the entire BBC Saint-Just core and everything that existed before it. It's rooted in both Thermidorian propaganda and misleading contemporary statements, for example of Camille Desmoulins, describing SJ as a cold and distant person, which is rather far from the truth, but shows us that many could see him in a similar way because of his professional behaviour. It's obviously, like I said, also present in historical literature, but it can be spotted very easily and we should always take it with a handful of salt.

Speaking of my username and rather the "edgy" part, it's quite anothet story! It refers to the younger SJ, before he became the deputy of the National Convention and was quite a mess. It's the younger and more "fiery" side of Saint-Just, that he later hardly displayed in public, but the side I specifically adore ;)

#ask #anon #saint-just

[to-be-frank-i-dont-care]

Blorbo List

I got bored so I decided to make a list of all my blorbos. feel free to ignore :P

Note: "blorbo," in my book, is any character I would die for, not necessarily my top favorite character in the fandom. I would die for all of these, but my favorites are marked with the sparkle emoji. my all time favorite character is noted with a mushroom

(fandoms are not in order)

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings– Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took, Frodo Baggins, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Eowyn, Faramir 

The Chronicles of Narnia– Edmund✨, Lucy, Reepicheep, Eustace, Caspian, Peter, Susan 

The Silmarillion– Turin Turambar✨, Finduilas, Beleg Cuthalion, Finrod Felagund, Beren, Luthien  

Pirates of the Caribbean– Jack Sparrow✨, Will Turner, Hector Barbossa, Calypso, Syrena, Philip Swift    

Peter Pan 2003 – Peter Pan✨, Wendy Darling, John Darling, Slightly 

Crime/Detective

Endeavour– Endeavour Morse✨, Joan Thursday, Shirley Trewlove, George Fancy, Reginald Bright, Fred Thursday 

Death in Paradise– Humphrey Goodman✨, Camille Bordey, Florence Cassell, Catherine Bordey, JP Hooper, Ruby Patterson  

Shakespeare and Hathaway– Luella Shakespeare, Frank Hathaway, Sebastian Brudenell✨

The X Files– Fox Mulder✨, Dana Scully 

Period/Historical Dramas

Pride and Prejudice– Elizabeth Bennet✨, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet, Mr Bingley, Georgiana Darcy, Maria Lucas 

1917– William Schofield✨, Thomas Blake, Lauri, the convoy gang

Newsies– Jack Kelly✨, Crutchy, Spot, Sarah, pretty much all the Newsies

Our Mutual Friend– Lizzie Hexam✨, Eugene Wrayburn, John Harmon, Bella Wilfer

The Scarlet Pimpernel– Sir Percy Blakeney✨

A Tale of Two Cities– Sydney Carton✨ 

Wives and Daughters– Molly Gibson✨, Roger Hamley 

The Book Thief– Liesel Meminger, Rudy Steiner✨, Hans Hubermann  

Les Miserables– Enjolras, Courfeyrac✨, Combeferre, Jehan, Joly, Grantaire, Feuilly, Bahorel, Bossuet, Eponine, Gavroche 

Anne of Green Gables– Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe✨, Diana Barry 

The Man From Snowy River– Jim Craig✨, Jessica Harrison

Action  

Tintin– Tintin✨, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Snowy

Marvel Cinematic Universe– Peter Parker✨, Loki Laufeyson, Steve Rogers, MJ Watson, Ned Leeds, Wanda Maximoff, Peggy Carter, Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova, Sylvie 

The A Team– HM Murdock✨, Faceman Peck, Amy Amanda Adams 

Macgyver– Macgyver✨, Pete Thornton 

Six of Crows– Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa✨, Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik 

Animated 

Miraculous Ladybug– Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug, Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir✨, Alya Cesaire, Nino Lahiffe, Jessica Keynes 

Centaurworld– Horse, Wammawink, Rider, Durpleton✨, Glendale, Stabby, Nowhere King/Elktaur, Mysterious Woman, Waterbaby

How to Train Your Dragon– Hiccup Haddock✨, Astrid Hofferson, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Ruff and Tuff Thorston, Toothless, Stormfly 

Tangled– Rapunzel✨, Eugene Fitzherbert 

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron– Spirit✨, Rain, Little Creek  

Skyward Sword– Link✨, Zelda, Skipper, Gorko, Pipit, Karane, Ghirahim, Fi

Twilight Princess– Link✨, Zelda, Midna, Shad, Ashei  

anyway there you go :P

#blorbo #blorbo from our shows #lizzy rambles

[shrimp-gender]

Camille Enjolras at parties

#camile Enjolras #chasing a legacy

[bernard-the-rabbit]

The first two pics are inspired by Fra Fee pics from "Cabaret"

The comic is based off a dialogue from B99

#les mis sketch dump bc im sane #IT'S MY COMFORT MEDIA SOMEHOW #les mis and camille <3 #my trashy art #les mis #victor hughoe art #les mis fanart #enjolras #enjolras fanart #Grantaire #grantaire fanart #combeferre #Combeferre fanart #Courfeyrac #courfeyrac fanart

[magickkart]

Laurent_wishes_he_were_adopted.png

Characters from “Chasing a Legacy“ by @enjoloras​

#chasing a legacy #camille eniolras #fabien lafosse #laurent enjolras #fanart #comic

[catboygretzky]

pity the fool; chasing a legacy; fabien x camille

PROMPT FROM HERE: “Just how stupid do you think I am?” from @pantaloonwedgie

WORD COUNT: 610

TAGS TO NOTE: From Chasing a Legacy, by the lovely @enjoloras

WARNINGS: Blood/injury, homophobic slur, mention of harassment.

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“This isn’t what it looks like.”

Fabien tilted his head, taking in the scene in front of him. “I simply don’t see how it could be anything else.”

Camille whined, holding his bloody hand to his chest. It wasn’t an unfamiliar scene, coming home and seeing Camille holding bloody knuckles while rummaging for their first aid kit, but it was a scene he hadn’t seen for a long while. 

“Camille,” Fabien sighed.

“I didn’t - I didn’t mean to get in a fight.”

“You never mean to get in fights.”

“This one was different though,” Camille said.

“Oh?” Fabien raised a brow. 

“Yes.”

“Just how stupid do you think I am?”

“He deserved it,” Camille insisted.

“How so?” Fabien asked, reaching for the first aid kit that was in a completely different cupboard than the one Camille had been searching in. He directed Camille to the sofa in the next room, sitting next to him. Facing him, Fabien coughed, holding out his hand until Camille gave him his own.

“He was harassing Marianne,” Camille said after a beat.

“I’m pretty sure Marianne can take care of herself,” Fabien observed.

“Obviously,” Camille winced as Fabien dabbed at his bloody knuckles with antiseptic.

“So, what’s the real reason?”

“I didn’t sleep very well last night,” Camille started. He paused, looking at their hands.

Fabien had begun to wrap gauze around Camille’s knuckles but hummed lowly, prompting him to continue.

”I can usually ignore when people say things about - me. About - us. But I was already in a pissy mood, and it was just one too many,” he admitted with a small shrug. “You can only be called a cocksucker so many times before you snap.”

Fabien smirked slightly, not looking up from Camille’s hand. “I’m pleased that I pass well enough for you to be called a cocksucker, then.”

Camille rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah.”

“You should really stop fighting so much. We’re always going through our first aid kit rapidly,” Fabien pointed out.

“You’d make a terrible nurse. Absolutely no sympathy.”

“Never claimed to be a good one.” Fabien finished, and closed the first aid kit. Instead of pulling back, he reached for Camille’s hand again. “After the first hundred times, I stopped feeling sorry for you.”

“You’ve never felt sorry for me.”

“True,” Fabien conceded. “But you fight so often, that much sympathy is exhausting.”

“I don’t fight that much,” Camille objected. He winked with a cheeky grin. “But you’ll always patch me up.”

“If you stopped fighting so much, I wouldn’t have to,” Fabien sighed. He seemed to be always sighing when it came to Camille.

“You didn’t deny that you’ll always patch me up,” Camille pointed out, still grinning.

Fabien raised both eyebrows. “You’re in a particularly good mood for someone who just got beat up.”

“I didn’t get beat up. I won, in fact.”

“Sure, Camille.” He paused, looking down at Camille’s hand still clutched in both of his. “I just don’t want you starting something you can’t finish.”

“Hey,” Camille said, bringing his uninjured hand to Fabien’s face. “It’s just some bloody knuckles.”

Fabien shook his head - or attempted to shake his head, Camille’s hand on his cheek making it difficult to. “Your mouth is too big for your fighting abilities.”

Camille shrugged with a smile. “Guess I should leave the fighting to Marianne from now on, huh?”

All Fabien sent back was an eye roll. Camille’s smile grew, and he leant in and kissed Fabien gently. It wasn’t a particularly good kiss, mostly teeth, but it settled something in him.

It was just bloody knuckles, but damn that idiotic motherfucker for making Fabien care so much.

#prompt fill #chasing a legacy #fabien de la fosse #camille enjolras #fabien x camille #cal tag #my fic #homophobia #blood #long post

[shiphappen-s]

I placed my order for Chasing a Ghost by D.A Ravenscroft ( @enjoloras ) a week before I get back on campus because I need something to look forward to when I'm forcing my ass out of bed at the crack of dawn to risk life and limb on the icy sidewalks just so I can make it on time to physics classes at 8 in the fuckin morning. This book is gonna be the equivalent to a Arthurian Legend to me; in my darkest hour, when all hope seems lost, an email from the campus mailroom "Your Package Has Arrived" and Enjolras himself is gonna kick down my dorm room door and vanquish my seasonal depression. I'm hyped as hell, guys.

#chasing a ghost #cag #enjolras #combeferre #les miserables #im so excited to finally understand whats going on #like whos Camille? #idk but im gonna fuckin find out #i just want to be able to read again!!! #and the cover looks so cool!!!!

[batrachois]

thank you SO MUCH @enjoloras for the help!! here is Camille, your sweet sweet problem child!

#les mis #les miserables post canon au #art #fanart #not my oc #enjoloras #camille #enjolras #grantaire #exr #enjoltaire #request #kofi

[alicedrawslesmis]

(finally) the finished Illustration commissioned by @enjoloras of a scene from his fanfiction work Chasing a Ghost 

Featuring Enjolras "capable of being terrible" protecting his son Camille

#les mis #enjolras #combeferre #camille #les miserables #commission #illustration #blood tw #gun tw #barricade #what other tags can I put? #red #black #sfw #my art #2019

[hey-there-hunter]

Bahorel: *storms into the room, looking terrified*

Combeferre: What happened?

Bahorel: I just walked in on Grantaire and Enjolras.

Courfeyrac: HAVING SEX?

Bahorel: No, having a conversation.

Everyone: *softly* oh my god.

#enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #bahorel #combeferre #courfeyrac #les mis #les amis #les miserables #not mine really #saw it and I thought that its so enjoltaire thing it hurts so I did enjoltaire version of this beautiful thing #originally belongs to camille-avery

[sieclesetcieux]

On Saint-Just’s Personality: An Introduction

Saint-Just’s personality is deeply misunderstood.

Saint-Just was a very secretive person, and guarded his personality behind walls. It might come off as surprising, considering how he’s usually depicted, but he actually was very introverted and reserved at the Convention, at the Committee of Public Safety, and during his missions in Alsace and in the North.

He was also a very sensitive person. He didn’t take slights easily (neither did Robespierre). But unlike Robespierre, he was also extremely young and wanted to be taken seriously. He was building off from nothing. So he built his own “myth”: the man (re)born with the Revolution. He made his youth his advantage: he hadn’t been as corrupted as the others by the old ways. This is something that was used by other revolutionaries, for example Marc-Antoine Jullien, who was 19 years old in 1794. They would say their youth made them closer to “nature” – that is, the natural, uncorrupted state of humanity as defined by Enlightenment philosophy.

The Saint-Just people think they know via novels and movies doesn’t really exist. I can’t think of any fictional representation that accurately portrays him. How people think of Saint-Just is basically several different “fanon” interpretations, some built by his enemies, some built by people who did appreciate him but didn’t quite understand him – which didn’t help much in the end.

This is important to point out because in the end these are the sources we have to learn who Saint-Just was as a person:

What those who knew him wrote about him (sometimes writing many decades later, which naturally impacts memory)

The little insight we can gleam from the few personal notes he left here and there in notebooks (and an unsent letter) that were never meant to be read by anyone

I know this seems obvious, but people often forget that historical figures are not fictional characters. They were real, living, breathing, human beings. They were people, and people have flaws and contradictions. People don’t necessarily remain the same at 20 years old, at 25, at 30 and so forth. People change.

The Saint-Just who writes Organt before the Revolution isn’t the Saint-Just who writes L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France in 1790 and isn’t the Saint-Just who gets elected deputy to the Convention in 1792. The Saint-Just who writes an unsent letter to Villain d’Aubigny (usually dated of July 20 1792, though it’s a topic of debate) is a Saint-Just no one was supposed to see. Same with most of his personal notes they built the Fragments des Institutions républicaines with.

Most importantly of all, a person will appear different to different people in different contexts. It’s a matter of perspective.

If you only take Desmoulins’ and Hilary Mantel’s and Tanith Lee’s perspectives on Saint-Just, well, I’m sorry to say, that’s not Saint-Just. That’s a perspective of Saint-Just.

Moreover, Saint-Just has many faces, many images, many legends, some of which he created himself while he was alive.

Victor Hugo was influenced by the Romantic Historians of the French Revolution, Michelet and Lamartine specifically, and their descriptions of Saint-Just to create Enjolras.

This is how you can find this connection making it even through novels that don’t like Saint-Just very much:

“He has a mind of fire and a heart of ice.”

- Bertrand Barère on Louis-Antoine Saint-Just

“It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice and as bold as fire.”           

- Bossuet on Enjolras, in Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“...Camille felt an instant aversion, as to the touch of ice, which is what the young man most resembled. Chiseled from an ice floe.”

- Camille on Saint-Just, in Tanith Lee, The Gods Are Thirsty

Thus, even traces of this Saint-Just lives on in Tanith Lee's book.

Main testimonies

Most of them are here, in French, and some have been translated. If not, I will work on it. I will repost them on this tumblr as well, along with additional information about their author, their reliability, their personal biases, etc.

Sources by Saint-Just’s hand

While some revolutionaries have enough correspondence to fill entire volumes, Saint-Just comparatively left few letters behind. We do have one letter that gives incredible insight into his state of mind, but it’s important to remember this letter was never meant to be read by anyone. It was an unsent letter, found in his things after Thermidor, and then made public against his wishes, much like most of his personal notes. It is, however, an amazing letter nevertheless, but it’s important to keep this context in mind: he did not want you to see him like this.

Secondly, we have a lot of decrees he wrote during his missions. Though most don’t say very much, they do give clues on his personality, on his attitude, on his perspective. In some cases, he would write a quick postscript to a letter written by Le Bas and addressed to Maximilien Robespierre. Interestingly, while Le Bas would use the “vous” with Robespierre, and admitted to his wife Élisabeth he felt closer to Augustin than to Maximilien, Saint-Just always uses the “tu”. This isn’t just a matter of revolutionary zeal – the whole “vous vs tu” question during the Revolution is another, much more complicated story.

Finally, we have personal notes scattered through the manuscript that became known as the Fragments des Institutions républicaines. It’s a strange document to study and refer to. There is, indeed, a project he was working on concerning the Republican Institutions. There are at least two drafts. But the document has other things has well: from notes he later used in speeches (you can pinpoint the similarities) to a very short fictional romance between a man and a woman that’s hard to interpret.

The document known as the Fragments des Institutions républicaines was made from random papers found on him when he was arrested, taken from his apartment, and in a notebook that Barère kept. Pages are missing. Some pages are obviously torn. This is the one place where he confided some of his deepest thoughts, which reveal a great deal of insight on the Revolution and on his role, as well as his mental state. It was written in the last months of his life, when he could feel what was coming.

Saint-Just wrote fiction: yes, there’s the much maligned, very misunderstood Organt. In the same period, which is shortly before the Revolution, he also wrote a play called Arlequin Diogène, a short story called La Raison à la Morne, and a very short epigram of 8 verses, Épigramme sur le comédien Dubois qui a joué dans Pierre le Cruel.

Most of these must be treated as any work of fiction regarding their author: separating fiction from the author is complicated. Is he referencing his own life? Is he even aware that he is? The context of their redaction, however, gives a lot of information and some insight on himself. One of these texts is extremely interesting in order to study his personality. It’s a sort of foreword to Organt titled Dialogue entre M... D... et l’auteur du poëme d’Organt. The format almost resembles that of an interview. This is important as this is Saint-Just the Author, as he wants to be seen. The style is trenchant, concise, straight-to-the-point. Here Saint-Just the Author of 1789 meets Saint-Just the Representative of Year II.

(This post in an introduction to a series of several posts in the process of being written. Please be patient. If you want to know more, feel free to send me questions though! I’ll try to answer as well as I can.)

#saint-just #saint just #antoine saint-just #antoine saint just #jean pierre gross #bernard vinot #marie christine bacquès #testimonials and commentaries #references #saint-just the author #saint-just the revolutionary #saint-just the representative on mission #saint-just the deputy