#frimaire

[rmelster]

Frimaire.

Starting the 21 November, Frimaire (whose name came from the French frimas, frost) was the third month of the year, and last month of autumn. Being oriented by te natural cycle and not by the once ruling Gregorian calendar, this month anticipated the first frost of the year.

[paperandsong]

Frimaire, La Vie Parisienne, November 1921,  Chéri Hérouard

[calendrier-republicain]

29 frimaire 232, Jour de l'olive !

[miffy-junot]

Tag with what month you were born in according to the French revolutionary calendar!

[lemuseum]

[deathzgf]

happy 1 frimaire :3

[calendrier-republicain]

Aujourd'hui, 14 frimaire 231, jour du sapin !

Study of a fir tree on the edge of mountain (French, 1821).

Crayon lithograph. Print made by Jean Victor Bertin.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[color-palettes]

Frimaire Fairies - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#e4b7b4 #ea918d #7369e4 #868ff8 #aecdf9 #d4fcfc

[qsycomplainsalot]

I'm not gonna watch the Napoleon movie in cinema, I'll most likely watch it through completely legal means later on out of curiosity but I don't want to support the clearly anti-intellectual stance that the director has circled the wagon around. His bad takes on making a historical period movie is not creative license, which could be used in support of the "source material", it's just this dickhead turning every historical event into scenes from Gladiator. This is not Maxime Frimaire Meridien, Marechal d'Empire starring in an epic historical fiction, it's a Napoleon biopic and it comes with responsibility. The guy was very important in shaping modern Europe, he wasn't just any asshole. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum, the message and impact it has are just as much part of its artistic merits as everything else and it's very much fair to criticize him on these points the same way we could criticize the cinematography. Like that's a thing with movies talking about historical matters, it can be good on most accounts and still be a horrible fuck up in the way it speaks to people.

Said people meanwhile will get really confused by the concept that movies that aren't documentaries could shape the mainstream understanding of a certain topic while having based their entire knowledge of dinosaurs on the Jurassic Park movies. It's also not a fair take to try and absolve Ridley Scott from any inaccuracy problems on that basis when he himself fully leans into the historical aspect of his work when it's convenient for him, the man is being interviewed by mainstream media saying Napoleon was like Hitler but sure that movie being nonsense won't damage people's understanding of the early 19th century.

So yeah anyway not gonna support that with my money.

[citizen-card]

‘robespierre was a dictator’ mfs when you ask them to name more than one committee of public safety member

[divorcedwife]

also i think the names of the months of the republican calendar are also very cute :-)

vendémiaire : month of wine harvest brumaire : month of mists frimaire : month of frost

nivôse : month of snow pluviôse : month of rains ventôse : month of wind germinal : month of sprouts floréal : month of flowers prairial : month of meadows messidor : month of harvests thermidor : month of summer heat fructidor : month of fruits

[paperandsong]

Frimaire, La Vie Parisienne, December 1918, Chéri Hérouard

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

His enemies reproach [Robespierre] with having sent bloodthirsty proconsuls into the departments, but, on the contrary, he was the one who had almost all those who abused their unlimited powers to exercise dreadful cruelties recalled; he was the one who wrote to the representatives of the people on mission without cease that they needed to sober in their rigors and make the revolution cherished rather than hated. Many times he asked, without success, for Carrier, whom Billaud-Varennes protected, to be recalled. Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1834) page 123-124

Laignelot: When I passed through Nantes to go to Brest, I met Carrier; he spoke to me about the drownings, and told me in the presence of Beaudit: ”You’re luckier than me; you have a bigger pool, and buildings to your service.” […] Before Carrier was denounced, I had told this fact to several of my colleagues. I went to see Robespierre, who was indisposed, I described to him all the horrors that had been committed in Nantes; he replied: “Carrier is a patriot; that was needed in Nantes.”  Audition de M. Carrier devant la Convention qui remplit les fonctions de jury d'accusation, lors de la séance du 3 frimaire an III (23 novembre 1794)

It is known well enough in what way [Collot and Fouché] conducted themselves [in Lyon]; it is known that they made blood flow in torrents, and plunged the second city of the republic into fright and consternation. Robespierre was outraged by it. […] I was present for the interview that Fouché had with Robespierre upon his return. My brother asked him to account for the bloodshed he had caused, and reproached him for his conduct with such energy of expression that Fouché was pale and trembling. He mumbled a few excuses and blamed the cruel measures he had taken on the gravity of the circumstances. Robespierre replied that nothing could justify the cruelties of which he had been guilty; that Lyon, it was true, had been in insurrection against the National Convention, but that that was no reason to have unarmed enemies gunned down en masse.   Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1834) page 123-124

Robespierre murmured a lot about the forms that we had established in Lyon for the execution of decrees: he constantly repeated that there was no reason to judge the guilty when they are outlawed. He exclaimed that we had let the families of the condemned go free; and when the commission sent the Convention and the committee the list of its judgments, he was not in control of his anger as he cast his eyes on the column where the names of the citizens who had been acquitted were written. Unable to change anything in the forms of judgment, regulated according to the decrees and approved by the committee, he imagined another system; he questioned whether the patriots of Commune-Affranchie were not vexed and under oppression. They were, he said, because the property of the condemned being specially intended, by article IV of the decree of July 12, to become their patrimony, we had greatly reduced their claims, not only by not judging only a quarter of the number of conspirators identified by Dubois-Crancé on 23 Vendémiare, or designated by previous decrees, but also by establishing a commission which appeared willing to acquit two thirds, as it happened. Through these declamations Robespierre wanted to entertain the patriots of whom he spoke, with the most violent ideas, to throw into their minds a framework of extraordinary measures, and to put them in opposition with the representatives of the people and their closest cooperators: he made them understand that they could count on him, he emboldened them to form all kinds of obstacles, to only follow his indications which he presented as being the intentions of the Committee of Public Safety.   Défense de J-M. Collot, répresentant du peuple. Éclaircissemens nécessaires sur ce qui s’est passé à Lyon (alors Commune-Affranchie), l’année dernière; pour faire suite aux rapports des Répresentants du peuple, envoyés vers cette commune, avant, pendant et après le siège (1794), page 23-24.

Come on now guys, which version is the truth?

[empirearchives]

224 pages and 39 illustrated plates relate in the smallest details the outfits, speeches and major stages of Napoleon’s coronation, which took place at Notre-Dame de Paris in the presence of Pope Pius VII.

Source: Le sacre de S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon dans l'église métropolitaine de Paris, le XI frimaire an XIII dimanche 2 décembre 1804 (Gallica)

[howlingday]

Taiyang: Hey, honey, I'm home~!

Summer: Yeah, whatever, jerk.

Taiyang: Whoa! Is something wrong?

Summer: You forgot...

Taiyang: Forgot what?

Summer: EVERYTHING! This whole year! My birthday was on the third of Germinal, our anniversary was on the twelfth of Thermidor, and you promised to take me on a romantic trip in Frimaire to Vale City!

Taiyang: No, I said we'd do that in December.

Summer: December! Hasn't been a thing! FOR YEARS!

[josefavomjaaga]

A letter from Masséna to Soult, Paris, 28 Frimaire An IX (19 December 1800)

You no longer write to me, my dear Soult; where does that come from? Are you angry with me? Have you forgotten that I am your good friend? Write to me often, that will prove me different. What are you doing? The First Consul, to whom I have often spoken about you, does justice to your high military talents, and has never spoken to me about them except with the greatest interest. Farewell, my friend, never forget that I am sincerely attached to you. I embrace you. Masséna

At the time of this letter, Soult had (more or less) recovered from his wound that he had received during the siege of Genoa, had been released on parole from Austrian captivity (i.e., he was not allowed to go to war) and thus was employed in the military administration of Piemont.

I remember that Thiébault (who adored Masséna and despised Soult) in his memoirs claims that Soult, after Genoa, slowly distanced himself from Masséna - according to Thiébault, because he had gotten all advantages out of his relations with Masséna that he could, and now no longer needed him. In particular, Thiébault claimed that Soult later was furious about not being mentioned enough in the book Thiébault had written about the siege of Genoa. - Make of that, what you will.

N. Gotteri in her book on Soult does not mention Thiébault's claim. To the contrary, she lists several letters during the second half of 1800, that Masséna, Lefebvre and Oudinot (all in the entourage of First Consul Bonaparte now) had written to Soult, reassuring him of their friendship and of Bonaparte's interest in Soult. According to Gotteri, Masséna, Lefebvre and Mortier had even tried to convince Soult to come to Paris, but Soult had refused and preferred to stay with the army, where he was at home.

Maybe he regretted that decision later? Or maybe he still did not feel at ease about his personal situation (his broken leg, only released on parole)? Or, maybe the easiest explanation: Louise was with him at the time. He may just have been too busy doing household chores to keep up an extended correspondence.