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Saint just could’ve stopped napoleon (with virtue)

But thermidorians, aka future members of the directory, stopped Saint just (with thermidor)

But napoleon, he got rid of the directory (with a coup)

I propose we change the name of rock, paper, scissors to: Saint Just, Directory, Napoleon. I will not take any questions.

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becoming a communist as a coping mechanism is the plot of a classic polish novel

dude i need someone to talk to me about my fitzier post-rescue fic wip where fitzjames becomes a communist as a coping mechanism (its a crackfic...taken seriously)

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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

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Reblog this to place a small flower in the hair of prev, and that you're very proud of them

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Whaaaatt? Aw man I wish I could go back in time and see this!!!

TIL: In the 1981 original Broadway cast of Amadeus, Tim Curry played Mozart to Ian McKellen’s Salieri. Both were nominated for the best actor Tony—McKellen won.

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HEY

THE COMMODIFICATION OF ART IS A BLIGHT

FILMMAKERS AND GAME DEVELOPERS SHOULDNT HAVE TO BOW TO THE WHIMS OF CORPORATE GREED

BUT GUESS WHAT? THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY OUR MEANS OF PRODUCTION HERE

IF YOU HAVE A STORY IN YOUR HEAD WRITE IT

IF YOU HAVE A SONG YOU WANT TO HEAR SING IT REGARDLESS OF YOUR PERCEIVED TALENT

IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER AND ALWAYS WANTED TO MESS AROUND WITH MAKING SOME KIND OF VIDEO GAME DOWNLOAD REN.PY OR TWINE OR GODOT IF YOU CAN SUPPORT IT AND FUCK AROUND

DRAW WHATEVER YOU WANT ON THE BACK OF A NAPKIN

THEY CAN COMMODIFY CREATIONS BUT THEY CANNOT COMMODIFY YOUR BRAIN AND HANDS

FIND SOMETHING YOU CAN DO AND DO IT FOR YOURSELF

THE ACT OF CREATION IS BEAUTIFUL

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A postcard from Zurich.

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A postcard from Zurich.

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You're leaving out the vital part where Saint-Just was holding the basket and drinking the blood that dripped through the wicker. He got arm cramps from holding it for so long, you can see the famous engraving of him exercising his arms here

I am sorry, did I understand that correctly? Portable guillottine? Entire family slaughtered on the spot by portable guillotine?

But of course! If you walk around Paris and listen very carefully, you might still hear the ghostly echoes of its dreadful rolling wheels.

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fancy a plate of Lobster Thermidor, anyone?

Who's hungry?

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why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.

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Saint-Just Resources

A culmination of the many articles and other resources I use in my own research as someone studying to be a historian on the revolution. Will be added to as I progress in my research; please let me know if any links don't work!

Historians on Saint-Just:

Biography from Association pour la sauvegarde de la Maison de Saint-Just*

Histoire de Saint-Just député à la Convention nationale (Hamel, 1860)

Lenôtre on SJ's 1791-early 1792 life in rural France

Juarès on SJ in the lead-up to 9 Thermidor (1908)*

Saint-Just (Cioti, 1991)

Saint-Just: Sohn, Denker und Protagonist der Revolution (Monar, 1993)

Saint-Just (Gignoux, 1947)

Saint-Just en mission la naissance d'un myth (J.P. Gross, 1967)

Saint-Just et les femmes (Quennedey, 2016)

Saint-Just: Apostle of the Terror by Geoffrey Bruun (my personal favorite English SJ bio)

The Man of Virtue: The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just (Linton, 2010)*

Saint-Just: The French Revolution's "Angel of Death" (Linton, 2015)*

Three Letters of Saint-Just (Bruun, 1934)

Saint-Just in modern Annales historiography (Vinot, Linton, Quennedey, etc., 2017)

Saint-Just : Une Constitution pour la République (on his role in the drafting of the 1793 Constitution) (Crucifix and Quennedey, 2018)

Saint-Just's Pre-Convention Life:

Monograph on the Château de Coucy (first believed to have been written in the 1780s as a school assignment, debunked by Vinot) - see this blog post by Anne Quennedey for more info.

Arlequin-Diogene (SJ's play) -> I did an English translation

Saint-Just Commits Tax-Fraud

L’esprit de la révolution et de la constitution de la France (1791)

Convention Speeches:

All Convention Speeches Summarized (Quennedey, 2020)*

First Speech: 13 November 1792 on the debate of putting the King to trial.*

19 vendémiaire an II (10 October 1793)

Ventôse Decrees Proposal Convention Speech (my complete English translation)*

9 Thermidor an II (28 July 1794) Speech/Draft

My full English translation

"Praise the Victories and Forget Ourselves" Excerpt

"Tarpeian Rock" Analogy from 9 Thermidor Speech draft

Miscellaneous:

Why I study SJ

My Thoughts on SJ's Thoughts on the Terror

SJ's Last Paris Apartment ( w/ monimarat)

SJ's various lodgings in Paris

Speech to Army of the Rhine excerpt

Alsace Mission Map

Saint-Just on Marat*

* indicates what I consider the most important of these sources in order to learn about Saint-Just truthfully.

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I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok

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let's just keep it out of the pamphlets and he should be safe... i won't spill the tea if you don't

Saint-Just Commits Tax Fraud: The Real Universal First Step to Becoming a Politician

This title is not clickbait, and it's all in good fun I promise lol. I don't know how this slipped past my several readings of Vinot's biography, but as I prepare for my thesis, I have discovered an interesting detail about Saint-Just pre-Convention that I missed before.

As you might know, Saint-Just first aspired to public office in April 1790, despite not meeting the various age and tax requirements at the time. His friend in Blérancourt, Pierre Thuillier, who was a secretary at Blérancourt's town hall, aided Saint-Just in falsifying the town's tax records to claim that Saint-Just paid taxes. Antoine, who had not yet joined the National Guard or inherited his father's property, obviously had nothing to pay taxes on. What's kind of funny is that they had him listed as having paid 100 livres in taxes.

Here's the funny part- according to Vinot, no one in this rural town in the Aisne department would have paid anywhere close to 100 livres in taxes except for the town's miller and possibly the market dues collector. Here's the even funnier part, Thuillier originally listed his friend to have paid double this already obscene amount, but lowered it.

Vinot says that the notary Gellé, yes that one, did not realize or know about the falsified record, but in knowing the Saint-Just family, was probably at least a bit suspicious. Later, likely fearing the consequences of this false record being uncovered, when he became Commander of the town's National Guard, Saint-Just would buy a bit of national property around Noyon, which is the larger town near Blérancourt. This purchase of 14.5 scythes* (with eight pieces of land in Noyon, and the remainder in Pontoise and Salency) in June 1792, by Saint-Just would lend itself to reactionary rhetoric regarding Saint-Just's financial situation after Thermidor. Although, Saint-Just also likely bought it so he would be legitimately eligible to be nominated as a delegate to the Convention in the coming months.

I agree with Vinot that this interesting bit of information might be where some of the idea that Saint-Just was secretly a rich noble and other similar interpretations got its basis.

See Vinot's book Saint-Just, p. 134-5 for more clarification!

*I'm unsure of the modern metric equivalent to this measure, but prior to the metric system being introduced, France had an extremely chaotic system of land measurement - having reportedly roughly 800 different units throughout the country. The closest thing I was able to locate were local/provincial land measurements called an acre (ordinaire) or arpent carré.

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yes he's a committed revolutionary who upholds the law. yes he committed obnoxious tax fraud to get there. what about it?

Saint-Just Commits Tax Fraud: The Real Universal First Step to Becoming a Politician

This title is not clickbait, and it's all in good fun I promise lol. I don't know how this slipped past my several readings of Vinot's biography, but as I prepare for my thesis, I have discovered an interesting detail about Saint-Just pre-Convention that I missed before.

As you might know, Saint-Just first aspired to public office in April 1790, despite not meeting the various age and tax requirements at the time. His friend in Blérancourt, Pierre Thuillier, who was a secretary at Blérancourt's town hall, aided Saint-Just in falsifying the town's tax records to claim that Saint-Just paid taxes. Antoine, who had not yet joined the National Guard or inherited his father's property, obviously had nothing to pay taxes on. What's kind of funny is that they had him listed as having paid 100 livres in taxes.

Here's the funny part- according to Vinot, no one in this rural town in the Aisne department would have paid anywhere close to 100 livres in taxes except for the town's miller and possibly the market dues collector. Here's the even funnier part, Thuillier originally listed his friend to have paid double this already obscene amount, but lowered it.

Vinot says that the notary Gellé, yes that one, did not realize or know about the falsified record, but in knowing the Saint-Just family, was probably at least a bit suspicious. Later, likely fearing the consequences of this false record being uncovered, when he became Commander of the town's National Guard, Saint-Just would buy a bit of national property around Noyon, which is the larger town near Blérancourt. This purchase of 14.5 scythes* (with eight pieces of land in Noyon, and the remainder in Pontoise and Salency) in June 1792, by Saint-Just would lend itself to reactionary rhetoric regarding Saint-Just's financial situation after Thermidor. Although, Saint-Just also likely bought it so he would be legitimately eligible to be nominated as a delegate to the Convention in the coming months.

I agree with Vinot that this interesting bit of information might be where some of the idea that Saint-Just was secretly a rich noble and other similar interpretations got its basis.

See Vinot's book Saint-Just, p. 134-5 for more clarification!

*I'm unsure of the modern metric equivalent to this measure, but prior to the metric system being introduced, France had an extremely chaotic system of land measurement - having reportedly roughly 800 different units throughout the country. The closest thing I was able to locate were local/provincial land measurements called an acre (ordinaire) or arpent carré.

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