http://estellacat.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] estellacat.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] revolution_fr 2010-04-29 03:12 am (UTC)

Unfortunately, my sister seems to have misplaced the guide. She says she'll keep an eye out for it, and I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, I found another guide that might be worth looking into: http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/2841097323?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=2841097323&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2. (I assume there's also a tome I, but I can't seem to find it.)

As for the part about Robespierre's house in Arras: "The Rue de la Gouvernance opens onto the Rue Robespierre. Once the Rue des Rapporteurs, for there crowded the employees of the Rue de la Gouvernance, carrying their dossiers. It was renamed thus [ie, Rue Robespierre] after it was proven (in 1923) that there was THE HOUSE WHERE ROBESPIERRE LIVED IN 1787. He lodged there with his sister Charlotte and his brother Augustin and it was there that he wrote that famous "Address to the Artesian Nation" and the prerevolutionary texts that made him known in all Artois. Long abandoned, this house has just been restored and contains a brief evocation of the only the great man's years in Arras." There is, in other words, some kind of museum inside, but I've never been there when it's been open. Still, I assume that if it's open when you go, it's probably worth taking a look at.

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