((Ooc: i really fricken love how Saint-Just is standing here. Hes staring at this man with the look of "i will get you" for the way he was talking to Robespierre. Hes so sassy with the hand on his hip and the side eye. He widened his eyes a bit as if telling the man with his eyes to back off and i love it. Robespierre's guard dog)
@ all the people who commissioned me i'm so sorry for the delay, currently am brainrotting over Patrice Alexsandre once again and will be back after 2-3 business days
were there two la comtesse de charny (1989)s or did they actually give patrice alexsandre hair more similar to saint-just than in saint-just et la force des choses in a tv series where the saint-just character isn't him (no shade tho)
According to certain sources while he was imprisoned with the other Hébertists, Cordeliers he would have said the following words (repeated in the movie Saint Just et la Force des Choses) "...you will be condemned. When you should have acted, you talked. Know how to die. For my part, I swear that you shall not see me flinch. Strive to do the same". If it was a clumsy way of helping them prepare to die, it succeeded because they practically all died with dignity (apart from Hebert, this abominable false friend of the people).
Another of his quotes which was attributed to him "Liberty undone!...because a few paltry fellows are about to perish! Liberty is immortal. Our enemies will fall in their turn, and liberty will survive them all!"
Whether we like him or not, we can only admire the courage of Ronsin and the fact he is a person with true convictions, just like the dignity of the Girondins before dying, the Indulgents and the last Montagnards like Romme and his supporters who never give up theirs ideas which cost theirs lifes or the fact that Robespierre and the people arrested by the Convention chose the difficult but courageous path of having scruples about the legality of the Convention and Babeuf died for fightings some revolutionaries who betrayed their ideals and the revolution for money by .
These revolutionary factions for the most part (apart from certain people within these factions ) fought for their convictions until the end and that we can only admire. To remember this, around 230 years ago these different factions were put to the scaffold (even if these factions fight eacher other who fight each other to the point that Saint Just said that the revolution is frozen , apart from Romme his acolytes and Babeuf and his accomplices, I'll summarize very quickly because in reality it's much more complicated than that).
In comparison, when we see our current politicians pretending to be ill or trying to flee from justice (some successfully, others not) to escape the consequences of them, we say to ourselves that in a certain way we have regressed.
*Charles Philippe Ronsin (1751-1794), gravure d'E. Thomas d'après une vue d'artiste de H. Rousseau pour l'Album du centenaire 1789.