#and also you read a bio of Robespierre and he warns about the likes of Napoleon and napoleon rolls in like he’s fulfilling a prophecy
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Not to start discourse but I really love how when I was a teenager I read about Robespierre and I thought that was interesting so then I read about Danton and Camille Desmoulins and Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI and Louis XVII and Louis XVIII and then I wanted more so I taught myself French and about the Marquis de Sade and Napoleon and and and
And also all these books about the culture and the history and the art and the individual people who we don’t have enough data for a biography but who still mattered and felt so strongly and did so much
Idk. It’s just fun, to me, to reach a point where any time I see a historical figure in the 18-19th century I can be like “I know that guy!!”
#napoleon#Robespierre#Marquis de Sade#Marie Antoinette#for the record? I am the farthest thing from an expert#so not @ me#I’m just saying it really is fun to like. read biographies on Sade and then you read a bio on napoleon and you see why Sade was locked up#and also you read a bio of Robespierre and he warns about the likes of Napoleon and napoleon rolls in like he’s fulfilling a prophecy#it’s neat. okay! it’s neat! my whole point is it’s neat!!!
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