I've read your essais you published here about Eléonore in littérature and I find them fascinating. I wish you'll write more about this issue. What literature does to historical subjects is sometimes amazing.Movies and plays are very similar to literature in it. The same person could be portrayed in very different ways! And yet, it's the very same person. :D A monster or an angel...That depends on which political ideas you'll have. Interesting!

I've real "Zanoni" and it's delirious. Jacobins are all mosnters there. But REAL monsters. Hanriot is portrayed as an OLD, FAT - yes, old and fat despite the fact he was young and VERY thin - untidy drunkard who would cut people intentionally with his sword in the streets. Robspierre -yes, you see this coming- is very similar to a cat , was "cadaverous" and always had his oranges at hand...But a Marquise was close to him rady to peel them off and offer the fruit segment one by one to him...Almost a "Neron" type in "Quo Vadis?". He is the essense of evil.Of ccourse if you wants a big laugh, you must read it.

I actually like Camille's love for his wife...but I can sepparate it of his work in political arena. I'm intersted in his personal drama, as I'm interested in Hanriot's private life, since I'm interested in them for the men they were...however, I can't appprove the Camille of the last times and all good husband he was , he was not acting as a good patriot. Of course, he was not the candid dove that some historians wanted to show us he was. I think he must be more similar to the Camille of "A Place of Greater Safety" than to the angel you could see in Victorian tales or recent TV movies as "The French Revolution", by Enrico-Heffron. He was far of being an innocent little guy.