This self-proclaimed "counter-cultural", Breton nationalist site is still pretty close. (http://www.contreculture.org/AG%20Saint%20Just.html) All right so they don't say "debauched", but they describe him as gay and "préoccupé de sexe". (Wow, wait, are we still in the 21st century? who wrote that, someone who's 80 years old? Even that makes no sense: someone who'd be 80 nowadays would have been 30 in 1960 - ahem.) Bonus point for that fail!website to mention he's Robespierre's love and immediately hint that it's what gave him a career. ("Proche de Robespierre dont il est l'amant (1), il occupe malgré son jeune âge et son inexpérience des postes importants : Commissaire de l'armée du Rhin, président de la Convention." Yeah. Right.)
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Date: 2010-11-15 01:40 am (UTC)