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I'm searching historical details I can't find (it's mostly dates). Can you help me please ? Here are my questions :
1 - Saint-Just wrote to Robespierre, far before meeting him. It was a letter full of admiration for Maximilien : anyone wan tell me when ? (month and year, please)
2 - When Robespierre and Saint-Just met for the first time ? any details about this encounter ?
3 - Robespierre was quite often ill. If memory serves, he was badly ill, for a very long time in may/june 1793 (for about a month), and then in february/march 1794 (for about a month again). Is that correct ? And is there others periods and dates where Robespierre was ill ?
4 - and last question : Saint-Just was a kind of warrior and he was sent more than a few times at the frontiers to make the war. Can someone tell me, please, where he was sent and when ? (the dates, please)
Thanks a lot !
I'm searching historical details I can't find (it's mostly dates). Can you help me please ? Here are my questions :
1 - Saint-Just wrote to Robespierre, far before meeting him. It was a letter full of admiration for Maximilien : anyone wan tell me when ? (month and year, please)
2 - When Robespierre and Saint-Just met for the first time ? any details about this encounter ?
3 - Robespierre was quite often ill. If memory serves, he was badly ill, for a very long time in may/june 1793 (for about a month), and then in february/march 1794 (for about a month again). Is that correct ? And is there others periods and dates where Robespierre was ill ?
4 - and last question : Saint-Just was a kind of warrior and he was sent more than a few times at the frontiers to make the war. Can someone tell me, please, where he was sent and when ? (the dates, please)
Thanks a lot !
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Re: letter
Date: 2010-08-31 03:11 am (UTC)a creepy man's magazinenot really the writing of the first name in French. (I guess it could be nowadays, with the sort of new-wave French first names, but not then, and not until relatively close to our times.)2. Saint-Just wasn't a "devotee", and that kind of word gives me the creeps in every context. "Kid" is pretty dismissive, too. Would you say that to people who are 22 around here? There are people who are way under 22 years old who read this community. I get a bit tired of Saint-Just being called a "kid".
3. "Unreal"? In fact, once that letter is put back into the context of the dozens other letters we still have that were adressed to Robespierre, it's pretty modest and ordinary -- especially next to the one who compares him to the Messiah -- for the period's type of exaggerated prose.
4. That letter is incomplete, as usual. There's a big chunk left out between "...my poor region" and "I don`t know you but...". Of course, and as usual, nobody cares about what isn't Saint-Just fawning over Robespierre.