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Napoleon, the Saviour of the Revolution? Considering the work that he undertook, and which, for the most part, completed the works that had been initiated since 1789 (the Civil Code, the Penal Code, the administration, the Bank of France, the prefects, etc), one would be tempted to think so; but when one sees how national sovereignty was scorned, police control intensified and the political participation of the French people reduced to a strict minimum; when one sees the Emperor incapable of making a durable peace and the sister republics being transformed, from 1806 onwards, into satellite kingdoms with sovereigns appointed by Napoleon at their heads, it is legitimate to doubt [this viewpoint], or at least useful to nuance it.

In short, speaking of a Saviour comes down to adopting the point of view of Napoleon himself, and only strengthens the myth conceived under the Consulate and the Empire. […] [According to this narrative,] Bonaparte had thus protected the essential gains of the Revolution, and the French Republic owed (nearly) everything to him. […] This representation has been spread for decades, and it pays scant regard to the true gains of the Revolution, since those can surely not be limited to a few monuments, laws or institutions. The French Revolution also lay in the principles of liberty, of equality, of fraternity and in the rights of man – duly suppressed in the Constitution of the Year VIII; it was also in the democratic practices. The people, in fact, made its apprenticeship of citoyenneté in the framework of clubs, societies, constitutional circles, and elections. The press played an non-negligible role here, since its liberty was respected […] and made it possible to give an account of the discussions and the ideas en vigeur on a national level.

All of this disappeared under the Consulate. Above all, the people now had duties: notably conscription and the droits réunis – […] indirect taxes on essential products. [State] control increased; [the press] was muzzled; equality was violated by the new privileges and by the Civil Code, inasmuch as it placed women and workers under the supervision of husbands and bosses, respectively, while it introduced a suffrage that was advantageous only for notables and while career opportunities were progressively closed to talented persons. Under the Empire, it was even worse, as evidenced by the creation of State prisons; the military tribunals, without juries; the return to peines infamantes and preliminary investigations  – that is to say, a justice without jury and behind closed doors; the selling of common land for the benefit of the State and the total disregard of constitutional bodies. In spite of the constitutional oath that was sworn during the coronation, Napoleon trampled civil liberties underfoot and transformed the “republican” constitutional monarchy […] into a monarchy that was more absolute than the one of Louis XIV.

Mythes et légendes de Napoléon: Un destin d'exception, entre rêve et réalite… (Annie Jourdan), p. 125ff.

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Nicky keychain !!!!

Yayayayay my baby

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lets gooo😈💥

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camille is growing on me its not funny

Woajjj is this oc x canon ?!?!??1?+?!?1 (not a ship. Yet. Idfk bro.)

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SCREAMSSSSS when its done u gotta post it holy shittt💥💥💥🙏🏻

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im not sorry

this guy writes like a schoolgirl in love about hitler holy shit

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YESYESYES HES MY FAV HISTORICAL FIGURE ACTUALLY AGHHHHHH I LOVE HIM💥💥💥

me core !!

Guys I'm not a naxi trust🙏🙏

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Im so sorry antoine🙏🏻🙏🏻

I kinda made my guy look like shit mb

Translation:

(maxi part)

I smell like the fear of looking into your eyes

Like trying to find words for years and years but never end up saying then

I smell of burnt wire

Of panick without a cause

Of a depressed city.

(st just part)

And you smell like calmness

Like the quietness in your head

Youre like 10 hours of sleep

Youre thursday

You're 16:00

Youre the daisy flavoured tea and peace<3

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if this isnt made into a plushie im going to guillotine myself

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i had a dream and there was old man yaoi between marat and an evil fyodor dostoievski i don't remember the details.

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i have two sides:

haha st just silly underrated french guy whos in love with robespierre

Literally all of the stuff in the above post.

Resuming this again, the parasites of my mind ask me to talk about this.

From an early age I have been interested in writing, writing everything. So I also took literary writing courses in my high school, and I have to say that I had never seen a historical character with as much potential as Saint Just, wasting his image on this kind of nonsense.

Saint Just is quite complex as a person, thinker, artist, and his legacy is also complex. It is not a light reading in any aspect, this can be observed with the historical load and style that Organt possesses; but at the same time in his speeches and political essays you can see this mental acuity of his character and the poetic refinement that characterizes him.

For me, his golden stage as a literary character has been given to him in the romantic era. Novels like 93, the religious descriptions by Michelet, Saint Just in Dumas' works also seem quite decent in form, etc.

But a characteristic of all these, is that they paint him as an inhuman being, almost like a deity. They explore him as a villain; however, he has deficiencies due to the disregard for the amount of nuances that this young man had.

And although I have been interested in doing an artistic project about him, some points that I would like to review about him are the following:

1. Saint Just and a religious crisis: We know that Saint Just grew up in a highly religious environment, full of saints, prayers and his studies in the Soissons oratory. I find this facet of his life fascinating, as his experience in the oratory for the formulation of his morals could have been, which would later be represented in Organt almost as a religious and mystical delirium. As an organt in search of an identity, he used his closest resources. Saint Just seems that during his childhood and part of his adolescence he lived in a bubble of religiosity, which, possibly with experiences related to the church, broke, creating a breaking point in his person. Maybe this bubble was what kept him subject to the belief of a heaven and the human good. In a deeper exploration and as he grows, he sees the sins of his environment and the human filth. This belief in heaven can vanish with its slow introduction to the real world and its natural maturity.

2. His extravagant relationship with death: Perhaps starting from the previous point, we can see that from a very young age he had deep existential crises about death and the afterlife. The first impression we have is evidently Organt in a passage from the V canto. He had very rarely seen this relationship with death in his artistic representations. He always sees death as a muse and inspiration in his writing, even in his rise as a conventional and the poetry that emanates from his perspective in Thermidor.

3. His sensitivity to the world in general. He is always described as an inhuman being without feelings, but they not explore that sensitivity that he clearly possesses from being a poet, to the anecdotes that his friendships tell after his death. But they also forget about Saint Just artist. His history is almost never explored in the war, we know that he saw firsthand the ugaliness of the war on the battle front and how this decision infuerced the decision of insurrection during Thermidor. His post-war character changes: it seems that he may have developed a trauma and depression for the same reason. Too many Dostoyevsky-style mologos of this period in his life can be built. What reflection can he give to the war and as always he puts the soldiers first because he knows how immoral and unworthy it is to fight, not for the subsequent honor, but for the misery of the war, the aura of death that spreads through the battlefields, that dying stend.

And I have more points that I would love to reflect on, but he is really a historical character with a lot to take and they are my main reasons why I do not accept literary mediocrites like that Japanese manga.

(I’m gonna tag you again cause this maybe can help you with your novel proyect 🫡 @saintjustitude)

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Robespierre from my portfolio for a zine about the French Revolution

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shit bitch damn

Eugh i fucked up with the hair

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i foud a random feather and remembered i had an inkwell, so here are some random signatures i tried to copy

My fav ones have to be st just's and robespierre's

Sillgy

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Heh... hey guysss..... tradicional sketches before I can actually do smth digitally

Some are more silly

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frev’s favourite twink (+ an attempt at painting)