#Romme

[mote-historie]

Martha Romme, Nivôse (Snovy), "de la neige lesflocans. de la saison son les papillons" (snow flakes. of the season its the butterflies). 1919.

Nivôse (French pronunciation: ​[nivoz]; also Nivose) was the fourth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word nivosus, which means snowy. Nivôse was the first month of the winter quarter (mois d'hiver). It started between 21 and 23 December.

[nesiacha]

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.

[francepittoresque]

7 avril 1795 : abolition du système de temps décimal imposé en 1793 ➽ http://bit.ly/Abolition-Temps-Decimal Le temps décimal avait été adopté sur l’instigation de Charles-Gilbert Romme, auteur d’une charge violente contre l’ère vulgaire en dénonçant « un monument de servitude, d’ignorance, auquel les peuples ont successivement ajouté une empreinte de leurs avilissements »

[rausule]

Garbage garba_ge Gooi vullis Latynse romme _l rumulo die vullis in die verbrandingsoond: vullis, kombuisafval; rommel, vullisafval; afval, afval, aas. 2 Informeel Hoekom dra jy al daardie vullis in jou sakke rond?: rommel, nuttelose goed, odda en end-rommel, rommel,. Put, garbage, inciner, ator, : refuse, kitchen scraps; rubbish, trash waste; swill, offal, carrion.

[collageofnudes]

Yulia Rommeli by Alisa Verner

part 1 / 3 (part 2 , part 3)

[steveyockey]

While visiting the Majdanek concentration camp I, at that time a still fervent Zionist, had a strange revelation which I still cannot explain. While standing in the gas chamber—the walls covered in scratch marks and the hauntingly soft blue stains left behind by so many administrations of Zyklon B—it occurred to me: there was nothing ontologically evil about the perpetrators, nothing ontologically righteous or defeated about the victims; their fates were contingent on history. If this, even this, was contingent, then there must be something about the structure of the world that made it so.

When the Zone of Interest cuts to the Auschwitz of the present day, this memory rushed to the surface. That scene—long and wordless—seems to suggest that our contemporary atrocities will one day receive a similar memorialization, that such memorialization always sanitizes atrocity by placing it firmly in the past, even as we continue to live in a present it created; that we are, in turn, already sanitizing our own atrocities in the present. Even that, most chillingly, the Polish workers, like the Polish servants at the Auschwitz homestead, will continue to polish and clean Höss’s trophies. Höss and the Nazis may have lost the war, but present events make clear that their ideology lives on, polished up.

As the film ends with a cut to black, Mica Levi’s score fills the void: an ostinato of screams and trudging strings. The screams continue to pitch up, more voices added, a cacophony of screaming, and still the trudging line: history continues as one single catastrophe.

Walter Benjamin wrote that "Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train – namely, the human race – to pull the emergency brake.” The train: a resonance he could not yet have known. Unlike other concentration camps, the Nazis did not have time to destroy Majdanek prior to their retreat from the rapidly advancing Soviet forces. The bulk of the camp is not only intact, but theoretically still operational. The brake has not been pulled. Can you smell it? We’re in the zone of interest. We never left.

[oldsardens]

Nina Romm - Self Portrait with Roses

[beguines]

Desire is born and sustained only by absence, and the more strongly the absence is felt, the stronger the desire. Thus the impossible striving toward the missing object . . . But the demands of faith are different. If God is transcendent and inaccessible, then perhaps God is simply the name we give to the absence that is desire. Which would mean that attempts to grasp God, so to speak, are folly.

Jake Romm, "Absence and Desire: Kierkegaardian Silence in Hlynur Pálmason's Godland"

[rommonoch]

Have a Hux today guys 🧡 :D

"Always remember, you're the reason why someone smiles." (Because you're a joke)

[girllookingoutwindow]

Ben entering Devi's bedroom 4x09

[rommsie]

Compilations of my sketches during break time after classes. Mostly Hux 'cuz he's just a mood

I'm too lazy to log in to the main

[mote-historie]

Martha Romme, Création Melnotte-Simonin, La Guirlande, 1919.

Created under the artistic direction of Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), La Guirlande is one of the rarest of the Art Deco magazines.

[nesiacha]

Survey: Who is your favorite mathematician from the French Revolution among this group?

These individuals contributed to mathematics during the Revolution, or used this field to better support or contribute to the Revolution.

Here are a few I’ve selected (a brief introduction even though we all know them, or almost)

Lazare Carnot:

Before the Revolution, he was a captain in the Corps of Engineers and had completed brilliant scientific studies. Elected as a deputy for Pas-de-Calais along with his brother, he immediately focused on military matters before his appointment to the Committee of Public Safety, where he oversaw the conduct of the war, both in Paris and on the battlefield. Upon his re-election after the fall of the monarchy, he voted for the king’s execution without delay and supported the proposal for public assistance, among other initiatives. He also collaborated with Condorcet, Pastoret, and Guilloud on women’s education. Despite his revolutionary activities, Carnot continued to write on mathematics, including his "Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal ", written in 1790 (first edition published in 1797). So, even during the Revolution, he did not forget mathematics.

Nicolas de Condorcet:

Here is the revolutionary defender of gender equality that everyone anticipated. Born a noble, he became a revolutionary and engaged early on with progressive ideas, whether scientific or political. He advocated for the rights of Black people, equal rights, and gender equality. He was critical of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the Constitution of 1791, which he found too moderate. Elected to the Paris Commune and later as a deputy, he held republican views and proposed a public education plan that laid the foundation for the school system envisioned under the Third Republic. Strongly opposed to the death penalty, he suggested condemning Louis XVI to hard labor instead. Condorcet also made contributions to mathematics. While in hiding, following his wife Sophie de Grouchy's advice, he wrote a mathematical work titled "Esquisse", which was published posthumously by his widow and traced the general progress of the human spirit across political and scientific history. He also passed notes to his wife for his "Éléments d'Arithmétique et de Géométrie", a two-part book for teachers and students.

Prieur de la Côte-d'Or:

After brilliant scientific studies in Dijon and Paris, he joined the Jacobin Club in 1790 and even presided over it during Louis XVI's flight. Elected to the Legislative Assembly, he opposed the royal veto and supported measures such as the decrees against émigrés and refractory priests, as well as the call for volunteers in 1792, while working on various committees, especially the education committee. After the fall of the monarchy, he was sent to eastern France with Carnot to reorganize civil and military authorities in an urgent context. Often dispatched on military-related missions throughout France, he joined the Committee of Public Safety. As a scientist and mathematician, he was particularly useful to the Revolution, notably in technical aspects like troop supply, weapons innovations, and the creation of military schools. After leaving the Committee, he joined the Education Committee, where he contributed to the creation of elite schools and the development of the metric system.

Gaspard Monge:

One of the main architects of the 19th-century mathematical revival, he was also a professor and friend of Lazare Carnot. Monge entered politics in 1790 and was an enthusiastic member of the Jacobin Club. He served as Minister of the Navy from August 1792 until 1793, tasked by the Committee of Public Safety with the procurement of arms, ammunition, and clothing for the army. He succeeded in significantly increasing the production of bronze cannons and rifles, among other resources, finding ways to secure saltpeter and other materials that were hard to obtain during the war with neighboring countries. Monge also contributed to the establishment of École Polytechnique and served as its director. One of his most important works is "Feuilles d'analyse appliquée à la géométrie", published in 1795. He was a professor at the École Normale, created in 1793, and was appointed a member of the Institut de France in 1795.

Charles-Gilbert Romme

Lastly, one of the last Montagnards, often called "the Crêtois." He also pursued brilliant studies, excelling in mathematics . He welcomed the French Revolution with enthusiasm and was one of the few deputies advocating for more civic rights for women, co-founding with Théroigne de Méricourt the mixed-gender Club des Amis de la Loi. Elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly, he supported the war effort. Later re-elected, he initially sat with the Plain before permanently joining the Mountain, where he voted for the king’s execution without delay and opposed Marat’s prosecution. He was sent on several missions for the Convention, including one to Caen, where he was imprisoned. Romme joined the Hébertists in supporting de-Christianization, endorsing the Cult of Reason and the de-priesting of Gobel. However, he did not witness the executions of the Dantonists, Hébertists, or the events of 9 Thermidor as he was on a mission that began in February 1794 and ended in September 1794. He remained faithful to his beliefs, even in 1795 when the liberalization of the economy worsened poverty, and the Convention took a more right-wing turn. He supported the 1st Prairial insurrection. Regarding mathematics, Romme was one of the creators of the Republican Calendar. His mathematical skills were vital in its design, as it adhered to the decimal system.

Sources:

Antoine Resche

Jacqueline Feldman

Le bicentenaire de Gaspard Monge ( article) write by Sergescu

[francepittoresque]

7 avril 1795 : abolition du système de temps décimal imposé en 1793 ➽ http://bit.ly/Abolition-Temps-Decimal Le temps décimal avait été adopté sur l’instigation de Charles-Gilbert Romme, auteur d’une charge violente contre l’ère vulgaire en dénonçant « un monument de servitude, d’ignorance, auquel les peuples ont successivement ajouté une empreinte de leurs avilissements »

[mcain1301]

[collageofnudes]

Yulia Rommeli by Alisa Verner

part 3 / 3 (part 1 , part 2)