#1792

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Collection of English Original Watercolour Drawings, possibly 1792, by Ann Frankland Lewis

From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Over two years since original announcement, Neflix finally sets Castlevania: Nocturne release date.

The series will follow Richter Belmont during the French Revolution.

And according to Collider, there’s a chance Richard and Alejandra Reynoso might reprise their roles from the original series via flashbacks.

Castlevania: Nocturne premieres September 28 on Netflix.

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Europe in 1792

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August 10, 1792: The Real "Good" Revolution Begins

La prise des Tuileries le 10 août 1792 painting by Jacques Bertaux,

How refreshing it is to be on Tumblr, far from the clichés of movies and pseudo-historians thank you to everyone . In my view , the true beginning of the social revolution starts around this time. Finally (though temporarily), France fought for real equality between people of different colors. However, this social revolution was very limited (an understatement) across the political spectrum, particularly concerning property rights—even those considered ultra-revolutionary and the Babouvists, were timid on this front—and other rights as well. In fact you understand that part of my speech is my point of view some would told me that start in reality in 1791.

On the other hand, those who believe that the revolution of 1789 was the good one and that 1792 was bad because of the increased violence are entirely mistaken. The revolution didn't wait for the Montagnards to start beheading people. We must remember that the governor of the Bastille, Delaunay, was lynched by the crowd. The same fate befell Foulon. There was the repression during the Nancy affair, where one person was condemned to the punishment of the Wheel, the repression of the Haitian Revolution that began in 1791, the Champ de Mars massacre... In short, what is considered the second revolution had its violent episodes, but so did the first. And let's not forget that such violence already existed under absolute monarchy, where we could witness what would today be considered deliberate criminal negligence, such as in the case of the Beast of Gévaudan, the deliberate repressions by Louis XIV or Louis XVI, the repression of the Flour War, and so on.

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Discovery and Chatham Approaching Cape Flattery, 29 April 1792,by Christopher Blossom (1956-)

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Good times wit my OGs

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There really is a whole genre of Napoleon standing in the Tuileries looking nonchalant during the French Revolution artwork

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Oil painting, 1792, British.

Portraying Joanna de Silva in a white dress and cream shawl.

Painted by William Wood.

Met Museum.

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Due to the lethal nature of the games, the Triwizard Tournament was canceled after the 1792 games and not reinstated until 1994 with new safe guards in place to hopefully prevent deaths. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bk)

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Sampler by Martha (Patty) Coggeshall, American. 1792

From the Met Museum

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Partitions of Poland - 1792, 1793, 1795.

by aresten_dmp

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Hey there! :) Do you happen to know what was Lafayette's opinion on Robespierre as a person and/or as a member of the National Assembly? Did he left any declaration in his memoirs? As far as I know, their different political views led them sometimes into arguments and slanders.

Have a nice day!

Dear @faxelange,

in short, they were not on the best of terms – not at all. The disfavour was mutual as neither Robespierre liked La Fayette nor did La Fayette liked Robespierre.

Despite this, there is not nearly as much commentary on Robespierre in La Fayette’s letters and Memoirs as one might expect. The references that are made are mostly general statements about Robespierre and not specific about their relationship. Generally speaking, La Fayette wrote in his Memoirs about what he thought valuable for his readers and important to mention. I think he judged his disagreements with Robespierre and Robespierre in general, at the point of him writing his Memoirs (1830s), as simply no longer important. It would be easier to give a detailed description of Robespierre’s opinion of La Fayette than the other way around since we have many statements by Robespierre.

The relationship between Robespierre and La Fayette was during the first years of the Revolution civil, or better, nonexistent. Things changed when La Fayette wrote on June 16, 1791 a lengthy letter to the Legislative Assembly, criticizing political groups as a potential thread to the constitution and the stability of France – the jacobins were here his primary target.

Although he railed against factionalism of all varieties, the Jacobins were his primary target. “Organized like a separate empire … blindly controlled by a few ambitious leaders,” the Jacobins were, as he put it, a “sect,” a “distinct corporation in the middle of the French people, whose powers they usurp by subjugating their representatives.” Read into the record two days later and republished in newspapers of every political stripe, the letter generated heated debate.

Laura Auricchio, The Marquis – Lafayette Reconsidered, Vintage Books, New York, 2015, p. 258.

Two days later during a meeting of the jacobins, Robespierre stated:

Strike down Lafayette and the nation is saved.

Laura Auricchio, The Marquis – Lafayette Reconsidered, Vintage Books, New York, 2015, p. 259.

Things went downhill rather quickly after that.

In La Fayette memoirs there are two mentioning’s of Robespierre, both are rather indirect, as they detail public attacks of La Fayette’s character that Robespierre had some connection with.

It would occupy too much space to detail all the hostilities of the anarchists against Lafayette; their defamations in the Patriot and the Chronicle were pushed to the most insane excess. Robespierre attacked him at the jacobins, first requiring that he should not be called upon to prove what he advanced. The club itself formally denounced him at the bar of the assembly, by the mouth of Collot d’Herbois. Some members of this faction alleged as proofs of his criminality certain letters, which, when read, were received with patriotic applause.

Marquis de La Fayette, Memoirs, Correspondences and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, Vol. 3, Craighead and Allen, New York, 1837, pp. 336-337.

We can see very clearly in this passage that La Fayette’s problem was not with Robespierre alone and while this excerpt gives seemingly more insight into Robespierre’s opinion of La Fayette, the way the event is retold also tells us a lot about La Fayette’s opinion.

The second part is from a letter that La Fayette wrote his wife Adrienne on April 18, 1792:

Parties are at present divided in this manner [the question of war]. Robespierre, Danton, Desmoulins, &c., &c., form the jacobin sink. These puppets are moved behind the scene, and serve the court by disorganizing all things, by exclaiming that we are beaten without resource and by attacking Lafayette, “who has deceived, they say, the people and the court, guided the conduct of the far less culpable M. de Bouillé, and who is more dangerous himself than the aristocracy.” (…) The other party, called the high jacobins, and which supports the present ministry, is composed of Bordelais, the abbé Sièyes, Condorcet, Roederer, &c. These men hate and fear Robespierre, but dare not render themselves unpopular.

Marquis de La Fayette, Memoirs, Correspondences and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, Vol. 3, Craighead and Allen, New York, 1837, pp. 411-412.

Again, La Fayette was not only in disagreement with Robespierre. Today Robespierre is often presented as the one and only embodiment of the Jacobins but there were many more and yes, Robespierre was certainly even back then a prominent and influential member, but La Fayette’s disagreements were with the jacobins as a whole as much as with Robespierre personally.

Perhaps it is easier to dissect La Fayette’s opinion based on what he did not thought about Robespierre. In the letter to his wife that is already quoted above, La Fayette also wrote:

Such is my situation: I belong, as I wrote before to you, to no party except to that of the French nation; but my friends and I will serve whoever will do good, defend liberty and equality, and maintain the constitution by repulsing everything tending to render it aristocratic or republican; and when the national will, expressed by the representatives chosen by nation and by the king, shall tell us that war is inevitable, I will do all that lies in my power to promote its success.

Marquis de La Fayette, Memoirs, Correspondences and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, Vol. 3, Craighead and Allen, New York, 1837, p. 413.

These were the things that La Fayette supported and believed in, this was his agenda. In not agreeing with Robespierre, we can assume that La Fayette felt as if Robespierre did not meet his principles. Another point is raised in this statement:

(…) by repulsing everything tending to render it aristocratic or republican (…).

Robespierre was without a question on the republican side.

This was all quite political but since La Fayette saw political opinions as the expression of underlaying principles, a political disagreement was often, not always though, also a personal disagreement, although things did not usually escalate like they did with Robespierre.

I hope this cleared things up a bit and I hope you have/had a lovely day!

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Η μονή της Αγίας Παρασκευής,κοντά στο Νεραϊδοχώρι,Τρικάλων

Το μοναστήρι της αγίας Παρασκευής κτίστηκε το 1792 απ' το Γιώργο ή Γούσιο Χατζηπέτρο δίπλα στο εκκλησάκι της Μεταμόρφωσης του Σωτήρα, που πιθανότατα ήταν κτισμένο πριν απ' το 1792. Είναι βασιλικού ρυθμού με τρούλο.

Το μοναστήρι είχε πρόβατα, γίδια, γελάδια και χωράφια. Τα χωράφια καλλιεργούσαν κοληγάδες (δηλ. άτομα που έπαιρναν το 1/2 ή το 1/3 της παραγωγής, μισακάρηδες ή τριτάρηδες). Την επίβλεψη έκαναν οι ηγούμενοι και οι καλόγηροι που έμεναν στα κελιά του μοναστηριού και ξεπερνούσαν τα 30 άτομα. Ώς ηγούμενοι αναφέρονται ο Δαμασκηνός, ο Ευλόγιος, Κήριλος και ο Χριστόφορος. Ώς καλόγηροι αναφέρονται ο Γεννάδιος και ο Νεόφυτος το 1911. Η διαμόρφωση του χώρου του μοναστηριού έγινε το 1977 με δωρεά του Κλέαρχου Δημητρίου και η πέτρινη βρύση κτίστηκε το 1980 με τη φροντίδα του παπα-Χρήστου.