#The Directory

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The political career of the revolutionary Antonelle Pierre-Antoine, close to Felix Lepeletier

Presumed portrait of Pierre Antoine Antonelle

This revolutionary was born in Arles in 1747. As a marquis, he published between 1788 and 1789 "le Catéchisme du Tiers État, à l’usage de toutes les provinces de France, et spécialement de la Provence ." He did not succeed as an officer, due to a lack of both will and ability. Instead, he preferred reading philosophy and mathematics treatises, according to Pierre Serna. He managed to become the first mayor of Arles in 1790.

Antonelle founded a Jacobin society, affiliated with Paris, and opposed Monseigneur de Lau (who was killed during the September massacres). Antonelle supported the common people, while Monseigneur de Lau, despite being attracted to Enlightenment ideas, opposed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Antonelle was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1791 and became a legislative commissioner for the Army of the Center in 1792.

In the autumn of 1792, he gained further importance by being elected as a juror at the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was apparently an alternate who did not participate in Marie Antoinette's trial. Contrary to what Wikipedia claims, he was harsh with Marie Antoinette, although he did not believe the infamous rumors about her son. According to Pierre Serna, Antonelle acted this way because, in his view, one could not build a new world on the revolution without destroying the old roots of the Ancien Régime. However, he declared himself insufficiently informed during the trial of the Girondins. He was imprisoned in May 1794 but was released immediately after the 9th Thermidor.

The Directory was a great disappointment for Antonelle. While Robespierre was nicknamed "the Incorruptible," Antonelle was called "the Invariable," according to Pierre Serna. He maintained a lifelong friendship with Felix Lepeletier, despite a later divergence between them. Involved in the Conspiracy of Equals, he was tried during the Babouvist trial. Apparently, one of the reasons many were spared (except Darthé and Babeuf) was due to Antonelle's strategy. Here is an excerpt from Pierre Serna: "He participated in the Vendôme trial against Babeuf’s accomplices and played a key role in saving almost all of the defendants." According to Serna, for Antonelle, there should be no more martyrs, or at least no more forced uprisings of this kind. He believed in fighting the Directory from within, through elections.

He helped the majority of the Directory's directors on the eve of the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor, Year V, by publishing the newspaper Le Démocrate Constitutionnel to call on the suburbs to fight against the royalists. His election to the Council of Five Hundred in 1799 was annulled due to irregularities, namely his affiliation with the Jacobins.

He quickly sensed the danger of Bonaparte, as it matched the fears of a general too ambitious, who would definitively end the Revolution. The consequences of the Saint-Nicaise Street attack and the terrible repression of the Jacobins led to his expulsion from France. Later, when he returned to France, he was placed under surveillance, although he fared better than his friend Felix Lepeletier, who was temporarily deported. Other Jacobins were executed in what was, in Antonelle’s view, an even worse parody of justice than under the First Republic (particularly because of the use of torture). Many other Jacobins were deported, and half of them died in exile.

He lived in retirement in Arles, continuing his philanthropic activities, becoming beloved by the local population for his generous donations. Despite his reputation as a "priest-eater," he gave large sums of money to nuns in the Church so they could care for the poor. This reputation later saved his life. Antonelle had a political divergence with his friend Lepeletier. In fact, he rallied to the Restoration in 1814 in opposition to Bonaparte and published Le dernier rêve d’un vieillard . He accepted the restoration of Louis XVIII under one condition: that he respects civil equality, equal access to jobs for all, and civil liberties. This was criticized, but honestly, he had to choose between two monarchs (as the return of the monarchy was sealed the day Bonaparte crowned himself, let's not delude ourselves), one of whom had betrayed his entire political circle, executed many, caused a large number of deaths, and rolled back many achievements shortly after his coup d'état while proclaiming himself the savior of the Revolution. In comparison, one could criticize Louis XVIII, but he seemed more reasonable (we cannot say the same of Charles X, who had as much honor as he had intelligence, meaning none at all). I don't blame those who chose Bonaparte either, as they were desperate not to return under the Bourbons' yoke (it must have been a terrible dilemma for all honest republicans to choose between Bonaparte and Louis XVIII).

During the Second Restoration, he was hunted by royalists in Arles. However, being highly esteemed by the local population, especially the farmers , they hid him out of gratitude for his generosity toward them (according to Pierre Serna, the farmers owed a large debt to Antonelle, which he forget the debt after they saved his life).

Having inherited a significant fortune, he gave generously to the people of Arles, who only loved him more for it. When he died in 1817, a massive crowd reportedly attended his funeral. Here is another excerpt from Serna: "His burial led to a popular riot when the clergy refused to give him the last rites, provoking the anger of the common people of Arles. Even in death, Antonelle remained controversial."

In Arles, at 30 Rue de la Roquette, there is a hotel bearing his name, with a plaque in his honor.

Sources: Pierre Serna Jean Dautry

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Heyyy ’:) I’m so sorry abt this but um. I need as many links to good fictionkin explanations as your blog has and [tumblr]’s search function is not cooperating, so if it isn’t a boatload of trouble. could I ask you for a few links please (^_^;) it doesn’t have to be immediately, I don’t mind if it takes a few days, but. I kind of need them. I’m gonna keep searching and hope I find some of them bc I know I’ve seen those links here before but again,, the search function… it’s not working with me here. I’m so sorry, thank you in advance, I hope you have a really nice night ✌️

Tags are your friend; I've got a good tagging system and it's much, much more functional than the search function! You can find a tag by adding "/tagged/[tag]" to the end of a blog's url - in this case, "/tagged/fictionkin", "/tagged/the directory", and "/tagged/otherkin 101" (yes, with the spaces in those last two - they used to require hyphenation, but they now use spaces, turning them into %20 automatically) are your friend.

Anyway, some specific links:

An explanation of one individual's fictionkin awakening, along with a comparison to being fictionhearted, from @/indornaga

On the difference between not being fictionkin until the source media emerges, versus not having a label for the fictotype until the source media emerges, from @/angelic-polar-fox

A perspective on being fictionkin, specifically OC fictionkin, from @/liongoatsnake

A more in-depth explanation of fictionkinity from @/shadowfae

A more general guide on questioning a kintype which has some very good general information/explanations, also from@/shadowfae

A thread of someone asking questions and fictionkin answering

“Isn’t being fictionkin disrespecting the creator?”, from @/anti-kin-cringe

On fictionkin and how there’s no real “line” between fantasy/mythological creatures like dragons (hi) and fictional characters/creatures, also from @/anti-kin-cringe

On the history of fictionkin, from@/liongoatsnake

houseofchimeras dot weebly dot com, which I can’t link directly because Tumblr is stupid about external links, but I recommend their entire website and the websites linked in their Bookmarks page, though you’ll have to do a bit of sifting to find stuff that’s specifically relevant to you of course

Hopefully that's enough to get you started!

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Marie Anne Babeuf: A Largely Forgotten Revolutionary

It is true that many female revolutionaries from the French Revolution period are not well remembered. I'd like to make a post in honor of Marie Anne Victoire Babeuf, née Langlet, who was a revolutionary and a staunch supporter of Gracchus Babeuf before and after his death. I couldn't even find a drawing of her.

She was born in Amiens in 1756 and worked as a servant in a château near the Somme. There, she met her future husband, Gracchus Babeuf, who was then known as François Noël Babeuf. They married for love but unfortunately had to endure the loss of their two daughters, both named Sophie (one died from burns at age 4 in 1787, and the other from malnutrition at age 7 in 1788). They then had three sons: the most famous, Robert Babeuf, born in 1785 and later renamed Emile in honor of Rousseau, Camille Babeuf in 1790, and Caius Babeuf in 1797.

Marie Anne was one of her husband's greatest political supporters and closest collaborators. She printed his newspaper for a long time, and her activism led to her arrest for two days in February 1795.

When her husband was arrested while she was pregnant, she made almost every possible effort to secure his release. She never gave up on him. She walked from Paris to Vendôme with Buonarroti's wife to better assist in the defense of their husband. She attended the trial that sentenced her husband to death. A few months after Gracchus Babeuf's suicide, she gave birth to their last son, Caius. Félix Lepeletier acted as a protector of the family (it appears that Turreau also helped and supposedly adopted Camille Babeuf, one of his very few good deeds). She supported her children through various small jobs, including working as a market vendor, while never abandoning her activism and remaining combative.

And she needed it, because during the rue de Nicaisne attack, which had disastrous consequences for the Jacobins (I’ve already shared my thoughts on this here: https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/756533326215528448/the-jacobins-executed-by-bonaparte?source=share), she lost one of her most loyal allies, Félix Lepeletier, who was sentenced to deportation. She herself was arrested following this event. One can only imagine her anguish, as she was the one supporting her sons amid the violence of the repression even if it seems that she was released soon. It would not be the last time she had trouble with the Bonapartist regime. During a conspiracy of Malet , she was once again visited by the Napoleonic police, who confiscated her papers in 1808.

It seems that misfortunes continued to befall Marie Anne Babeuf, as some sources suggest that her son Caius Babeuf died during the 1814 invasion. Her son Emile Babeuf, also an activist, sided with the Hundred Days regime and, surprisingly, wrote a letter to Carnot (one of the main organizers of the Babouvist repression), although it is less surprising given that he knew what Bonaparte had done to him and his family. I’ve already given my opinion, considering that the Republicans preferred to unite, including with Bonaparte, despite their grievances, to avoid the imminent Bourbon restoration (see this post for more information: https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/755017284158980096/emile-babeuf-and-the-letter-send-lazare-carnot?source=share). He was sentenced to deportation but was pardoned on August 25, 1818. In the meantime, his mother obtained a visitation permit that she often used. It also seems that her son Camille Babeuf committed suicide during the Allies’ entry into Paris in 1815. I hope Caius and Camille did not die like that, as it would add another tragedy (surviving her beloved husband and then four out of five children, not to mention all the problems she faced due to her activism and her surroundings).

We have no record of when this unjustly forgotten revolutionary died. She seemed extremely combative, and her commitment is beyond doubt.But how hard it must have been for her to see that the ideals of the revolution that she and her husband fought to achieve were defeated first by the Directory, then by Napoleon's regime and finally by the Bourbon Restoration.

Most of the sources I used are from historian Jean Marc Schiappa. While working on a project to write her biography, I finally found a biography of her on a French site called Maitron, which I invite you all to see here: https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article25533. I found it just a few days ago, and there are some of portraits of revolutionaries from different periods and countries. Too bad that it is generally only of a political branch because I have not been able to find for example portraits of the Brissottins (for the moment maybe they are in this site)

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do you have any blog recommendations? moreso for lots of good otherkin info

For information, off the top of my head: @/liongoatsnake, @/who-is-page, and @/frameacloud are all good starting places; I've also got a "kin resources" tag you might want to look through that will have more than I can remember off the top of my head because my memory is poor LOL

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Hey! Thank you for asking all this; these are great questions.

How does an individual find out their nonhuman identity?

Questioning is a whole Process for everyone. Some are lucky, and have a thunderclap moment where everything falls into place near-instantly. Most of us don't experience that. For most of us, it boils down to a process of introspecting on our own experiences (often including journaling them to help with that) and comparing notes with both records of potential kintypes and the experiences of other nonhumans to see what matches up and what doesn't. For more details, I recommend starting with this post from @/aestherians and this post from @/shadowfae, and I have a "questioning" tag with more such posts and discussions if you want to browse that. Having a connection to a species may be a start, but is rarely enough on its own to make someone identify as that species - though I'll never say never to the possibility.

Could one identify themselves as non-human but also not believe in the literal soul or any spiritual beliefs?

Yes! Many do. Many, as you mentioned, identify as nonhuman for psychological reasons, and a portion of the community have explanations for their nonhumanity that don't fall into either category (spiritual or psychological, I mean). Ultimately, the explanation for why you're nonhuman is secondary to the fact that you're nonhuman for most of us.

I’ve seen a few people compare their non-human dysphoria(?) as similar to gender dysphoria and/or uses gender dysphoria as an example to better explain their non-human dysphoria. (I know non-human identities have nothing to do with gender, unless they specify) I can understand specific things to a point but I’m curious for the other experiences and reasons might one identify as non-human.

Poppy's post linked above has a great list of common otherkin experiences, which I'll copy over for posterity:

Species dysphoria - A deep sense of unhappiness from not being of the correct species. Can include having a different body, being perceived a different way, and being treated a different way to what you feel you should be.

Species euphoria - A deep sense of joy from being of the correct species. Can include modifying your body, dressing up and being perceived and treated like the correct species.

Shifting - A change in perception that makes you feel more like your kintype. There are many different kinds of shifts: https://aestherians.tumblr.com/post/164797991209/

Phantom limbs - Feeling like you have the body/body parts of your kintype

Memories/noemata - Remembering or ‘just knowing’ things about your kintype’s life

Instincts/urges - Reactions and actions that you don’t really think about, but that are very similar to those of your kintype

Wishing you were nonhuman - Self-explanatory

Dreams - Dreams where you are your kintype or are living your kintype’s life or interacting with your kintype

Homesickness - Longing for places or time periods or situations that you’ve never been in in this life

Self-perception - Picturing yourself as your kintype in your mind’s eye, drawing yourself as your kintype when you try to draw a self portrait, always playing as something resembling your kintype in games, etc.

How does one know that they have multiple non-human identities?

Admittedly I'm not polykin (the shorthand for someone with multiple kintypes), but the same way one knows that they have one nonhuman identity, I presume. Rinse and repeat the questioning process, sometimes with bonus questioning of "is this really two different species, or is it a chimerical mix of the two that's a single entity?" I'm not an expert on how to unravel that question, unfortunately.

How does one find out they have mythical identity such as a dragon?

Again, the same way you question an earthly animal/plant, really. Look at your experiences, write them down, see what picture starts to form out of the pieces, compare to accounts of various creatures and to other dragons' experiences, see what lines up and what feels right. ("Dragon" specifically is such a broad term that almost anything that doesn't fall into a different preexisting category could be considered a dragon if the word feels like it fits to that individual - draconity really comes down to "if you feel like the word dragon is useful to you, then use it".)

How does one find out they’re fictionkin?

I'm not fictionkin, but I've got this whole list of explanations and descriptions from people who are which may be helpful to you.

Do some individuals with vague feelings and connection to a nonhuman identity label themselves as otherkin even if they don’t have experiences such as non-human “dysphoria” or experience phantom attributes like wings, horns, etc?

Yep. There is no "you must have this many of the common experiences to be valid" bar.

Could an individual who doesn’t believe in souls, still manage to identify as non-human because they feel like they’re non-human in their “soul” despite them not actually believing in the soul?

Who am I to tell you you're wrong about your own identity? (Although I'd really like to know what that means to you, since obviously you don't mean it in a literal way or that wouldn't make any sense. But that's me wanting to know in a curiosity way, not me wanting to know in a Judging Whether You're Valid way.)

Do non-human’s try out labels to discover what feels right?

If they're not, they're making their questioning process needlessly harder. Trying out labels is a normal and healthy part of the questioning process basically no matter what you're questioning.

Even if the individual feels non-human but can’t figure out which non-human identities/identity they are?

Again, who am I to tell you you're wrong about your own identity? Many of us come to the conclusion of "I don't know what I am, but I know it's not human/not fully human" before they figure out their specific kintype(s). And I've met a few aspecies people as well - people who don't identify as any species, and are thus nonhuman without being any specific nonhuman thing.

Do some non-humans identify as non-human because that individual strongly desires to be non-human?

As they say, wanting to be something is often a symptom of being that thing. There's really not that big a difference between "I am this" and "I want to be this" and "I should be this." They're almost synonymous for most people.

Like how otherkin can include mythical creatures while theiran does not include mythical creatures.

I know this wasn't a question, but as a side note, this actually isn't necessarily true; the "earthly animals" thing was a definition that got floated around for a while, but it wasn't originally what the word meant, and the original distinction - that being, otherkin includes sapient beings, therian is animals, including mythical or fictional animals - has been making a comeback over the last few years. Dragon therians used to be a very common thing. I know @indornaga did a whole presentation on this, though I'm not sure if it ever got put into a written format and if it did I can't find the link, so hopefully dei can help with that.

What are aldern-(insert identity here) identities?

My understanding, which is admittedly loose, is that aldernic identities are specifically about the physical aspects of things - wanting to have a different body, typically in a nonhuman way. Here's a wiki page, since I can't find the original coining post (not hyperlinked so Tumblr doesn't hide this post in the notes): https://mogai.miraheze.org/wiki/Aldernic

What’s otherhearted?

Otherhearted refers to someone who identifies strongly with, but not as, a creature, character, thing, etc. This can manifest as feeling like they should be, but aren't, their hearttype; feeling like their hearttype is family; or otherwise feeling a deep sense of connection to their hearttype. Here's my tag for that, which is mostly informational posts and people talking about their specific experiences. (There was also a comparison between one person's fictionkin and fictionhearted experiences in that post with a list of links regarding fictionkin experiences.)

Otherhearted is another identity under the alterhuman umbrella - alterhuman being a term that refers to any identity that's "alternative to human or an alternative way of experiencing humanity (as compared to societal norms)," which is exactly as broad as it sounds and covers many, many things including but definitely not limited to nonhumanity.

Hope this helps! Happy to answer more questions if you have 'em. :3

I have a question for otherkin/fictionkin/therian/alterhuman/nonhuman communities. I’m still pretty new in my understanding of these terms and I was wondering how does an individual find out their nonhuman identity? I understand that one may find their non-human identity through spirituality or psychological experiences. I want to better understand that though, more so the psychological side.

For example, would a dog-kin person identify as a dog because they feel like they have a special connection to dogs? Could one identify themselves as non-human but also not believe in the literal soul or any spiritual beliefs?

(Like let’s say one identifies as a dog because they feel like their “soul” is a dog but also not believe in the belief of a soul?)

I’ve seen a few people compare their non-human dysphoria(?) as similar to gender dysphoria and/or uses gender dysphoria as an example to better explain their non-human dysphoria. (I know non-human identities have nothing to do with gender, unless they specify) I can understand specific things to a point but I’m curious for the other experiences and reasons might one identify as non-human.

How does one know that they have multiple non-human identities? How does one find out they have mythical identity such as a dragon? How does one find out they’re fictionkin? Do some individuals with vague feelings and connection to a nonhuman identity label themselves as otherkin even if they don’t have experiences such as non-human “dysphoria” or experience phantom attributes like wings, horns, etc? Could an individual who doesn’t believe in souls, still manage to identify as non-human because they feel like they’re non-human in their “soul” despite them not actually believing in the soul? Do non-human’s try out labels to discover what feels right? Even if the individual feels non-human but can’t figure out which non-human identities/identity they are? Do some non-humans identify as non-human because that individual strongly desires to be non-human?

I hope this makes sense. I know that the terms I listed above have different meanings. Like how otherkin can include mythical creatures while theiran does not include mythical creatures.

Also, one last thing. What are aldern-(insert identity here) identities? What’s otherhearted? Thanks for reading.

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