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potatosonnet · 11 months ago
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Choose your fighter
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czerwonykasztelanic · 10 months ago
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Martyr and friend of the people, sketch cross-referenced from various paintings (thanks, David...)
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nigrit · 3 months ago
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h/t Shusaku Takaoka
It was the ducky!
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allow me to tell you about Charlotte Corday. She was a young woman living outside of Paris during the French Revolution. She was born to a minor aristocratic family, and was in her twenties. She decided to go to Paris. She bought a knife. There another figure important to this story. A man named Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a journalist with a newspaper: “L’ami du peuple” or “the friend of the people.” He was in support of the revolution, of the bloodshed, of all of it and he wrote and wrote. He called for the killing of those held in prisons, which lead to action, to the September Massacres. While he may not have directly killed anyone, people had died because of his writings
and so young Corday showed up at his office one day. (Marat often conducted meetings while he was in the bath due to a skin condition. This isn’t relevant now, but it will be later.) Anyway, Corday gave him a list of names of people who she believed did not support the revolution.
She then pulled out her knife and killed him. she waited for authorities, and was taken in and later executed via guillotine for the murder of Marat, a man seen as hero—as now martyr—of the revolution. Before she killed him she’d written a letter explaining everything—her motives for killing Marat. Everything she thought was wrong and…
that sounds familiar, right?
young person, man who’s pen is responsible for deaths
a murder
a manifesto?
a trial
Corday was seen as a villain. A monster. Marat was seen as a martyr. A pseudo-saint. He was worshipped. The image of him laying dead in his bathtub was immortalized in painting, depicting him in the manner of Jesus having fallen from the cross.
This story—this modern story is slightly different. People arent afraid to speak up against the system. they arent afraid
The assassin is the hero now
one who sacrificed and maybe made a difference.
remember corday
remember the knife and the gun and the bullets and the letters
because they sacrificed and tried to make the world better
Maybe it wasn’t the best way
maybe it didnt change things
but they tried
and maybe remember Marat too. His methods were bloody but he wanted a better world too—one with more freedom, with better government
But the last guy? The one who denied denied denied?
I dont want to put value on someone’s life
i cant do it
so I will leave that to you
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sparvverius · 9 months ago
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do kids these days even know about la canción de marat. are they aware of la canción de marat. everyone would do well to remember la canción de marat.
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papers-pamphlet · 4 months ago
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Friend requested I draw Marat and . i decided to add in a little FGO's Charlotte Corday too
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ivovynckier · 4 months ago
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Does Keir Cromwell know how Jean-Paul Marat, leader of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, ended?
(Hint: he was stabbed to death. That's a knife crime!)
(Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David, Museum of Fine Arts Brussels)
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picardy-third · 1 year ago
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josh-lanceero · 2 years ago
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Marat! Was ist aus unserer Revolution geworden?!
Hbd tho!
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revolutionary-catboy · 7 months ago
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Marat's song and death scene from the musical La Révolution Française l'Opéra Rock. Featuring Simonne and Charlotte Corday.
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maratsbathtub · 1 year ago
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Old Marat art I did before I managed to nail down the way I draw him. Funky French Man just vibing
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misscromwellsmonocle · 11 months ago
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Charlotte Corday (1793) by Jean-Jacques Hauer
She requested this painting a few hours before her execution.
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nigrit · 3 months ago
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French Revolutionary Lives, edited by David A. Bell and Colin Jones.
This just dropped. Has anyone got access to Springer who could send me a link to the chapter on Marat? My institution is subscription averse although I recognize the whole industry is a bit of a scam to say the least! https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60522-2#toc
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anotherhumaninthisworld · 1 year ago
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Hi! I am relatively new to Frev and I don't know much. All I know is the Oversimplified video but I know the Frev and its historical figures are more complex than that. Were Robespierre and Marat that evil/bad irl as they were portrayed in the videos? I'm not sure where to find sources that state that they aren't bad people but state that they are more complex. (My English isn't very good)
No, Oversimplified is perhaps not the channel you should go to if what you’re looking for is nuanced depictions of historical figures… I wouldn’t go so far as to say the portrayal of Robespierre and Marat is grounded in nothing but lies, falsehood and propaganda, but rather the fact that the video oversimplifies (duh!), focuses on comedy as much as history and tries to tell the story of a ten years long, very complex revolution in just forty minutes.
What’s positive is that it isn’t very hard to find depictions of Marat and Robespierre more nuanced than those presented in the video (even biographers hostile towards the two would be more balanced, since they at least have more time to tell their story). You can find free biographies on Robespierre here, and free biographies on Marat here. Then you can of course also read their own texts and thoughts (Robespierre, Marat) though if you’re new to this, I think it still might be best to start with a biography.
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jeskerthefool · 4 months ago
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Vizille+ghosts part one of idk how many I'll do. Two more for sure.
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azlia-iconoclast · 2 months ago
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Aujourd'hui, c'est l'anniversaire de la fin de la révolution. Certaines des choses dont on ne parle jamais sont que Robespierre a décidé de ne pas abuser de son pouvoir et d'autoriser les élections même s'il savait que l'aristocratie avait soutenu les généraux, à la fin, il savait qu'il avait échoué la révolution le jour où il a trahi Paul Marat qui était le radical que le peuple aimait vraiment, Robespierre savait que la modération au nom de l'unité avec les libéraux a mis fin à son soutien, il aimait tellement la démocratie qu'elle a appelé aux élections même s'il savait qu'en conséquence un nationaliste se lèverait et déferait tous les progrès de fraternité et d'égalité que nous étions en train de transformer. Je ne sais pas s'il était conscient que le nationaliste allait être Napoléon ou s'il savait qu'il allait être diabolisé au point qu'à ce jour, les gens appellent les peines légales qui ont fait payer enfin à l'aristocratie ses crimes "règne de la terreur" au lieu de justice. nous avons essayé de maintenir la révolution en vie dans les années qui ont suivi mais c'était une cause perdue, qui valait la peine de mourir mais une cause perdue néanmoins. Les gens ont fait confiance à un général qui prétendait être un révolutionnaire tout en étant financé par les aristocrates et les marchands les plus haineux, avec Napoléon la révolution a pris fin, nous savions tous ce qu'il était vraiment mais personne ne l'a écouté, ils ont préféré le confort aux difficultés de la solidarité, ils ont détesté les réformes athées et la nouvelle liberté des femmes au point de vendre leurs nouveaux droits au nom de cette haine, ils l'ont choisi malgré les avertissements, ce n'était pas une surprise quand il a trahi la démocratie et s'est déclaré empereur, les premières années ont été prospères en raison des fruits des horribles guerres à l'étranger mais ensuite vient le prix, Napoléon a mis fin à la possibilité d'élever et de révolutionner l'esprit humain dans la solidarité et l'égalité et il l'a fait avec un énorme applaudissement nous ramenant à un monarchisme divisé en classes, plus jamais même après sa mort les idées d'unité et d'économie inclusive ne sont revenues en France jusqu'à la fin du siècle entier. les gens ne savent pas mais Napoléon et son héritage étaient considérés comme les pires des pires, avant Hitler, les gens considéraient Napoléon comme le pire de l'Europe
History doesn't repeat but sometimes rythms, i feel this so vividly bow that the justices in america who are lifelong positions are all going to be young for a judge and ultraconservatives, as it was with Napoleon backwards policies that cost us the whole century and the future of europe now europe even after trump has lost the century, any attempt to change what trump will do or rebuilt what he will destroy will be blocked by the justices until their death or more given that humanity doesn't learn and repeat it's mistakes ober and over. your whole generation, your children and half the life of their children will suffer the consequences of this choice, choice that would had not happened if you had demanded of democrats to keep their promises and not their greed.
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i pity you we should had demanded revenge for Marat that way robespierre would had never be in power and decide to appeal to conservatives losing the people's trust in the moderation. but at least we had true revolutionaries, you comformed with having 2 parties founded by merchants and genociders so no even a dignified end you had as we did, just a silent one.
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