Salut et fraternité. ;)

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

trf_chan sort of invited me to join, after I suggested to invade the community. ;D

Sooo, I'll introduce myself now. I am an university student in history and I am also interested in philosophy and art. I therefore quite appreciate to discuss of the Enlightenment and Neoclassical Art. I thought I would be able to share, here, some of the things I have about the French Revolution, especially on Saint-Just, Robespierre, David and Le Bas -- more or less in that order, since I do have a slight obsession preference for Saint-Just, I must admit...

As for the LJ life, I am one of the maintainers of sexandthecomite, dedicated for slash and het fiction though we didn't really get any het yet, and the (half-dead) Saint-Just's community, sieclesetcieux. I wrote some fics too, though it's been some time since I've done it now.

Being from Québec, I speak French, and what I get and read are mostly books and articles written in French, so I especially post my stuff in French. I'm not so very good at translating, but I can try reviews from what I read. :D


Révolution-française.net ~ for those who can understand French. It has many articles which are very interesting, about the French Revolution, but also related things too, written by historians generally from a new sort of historical school still unnamed, which can be considered as "neither marxist, neither revisionist", though somehow related to la Sorbonne (this sort of historian jargon I'm babbling about can only be understood by those who already know of it, of course -_- ).

An artist has decided to recreate/repaint/copy/resurrect the lost painting of the First Revolutionary Martyr, Lepeletier (de Saint-Fargeau). ~ a site I've found through the precedent. You may find various details on the project, the painting, etc.

A virtual exhibition on the Enlightenment ~ unfortunately, there are no English version, but it has some nice images.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution ~ I don't know if you know this one, it's quite interesting, with loads of information and it's in English. ;)

A link to the Musée de la Révolution française ~ there aren't many pics you can click on in the "Collection" section, but there are still some which cannot be found elsewhere.

French revolutionary costume history ~ for those who are interested with clothing. :)

And this is pretty much what I can think of for now. ^__^

Comments

[jedith.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for the links, citoyenne.

Revolutionary costume is just what I need! :)

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Glad I helped. :D

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Wait - what? You weren't part of this comm? Huh.

Well,you already know me, LOL! But welcome to the madness!

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

No, I actually wasn't -- I know, that seems so weird. >.> To be very frank, because I must, the first time I took a look at this comm, I got scared by Camilleistes and Rolandins. D:

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Really? lol! Seems mostly to be Robespierre fangirls, now and we're all very mild- mannered! ^^

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I don't mean everybody, of course. ^^; Or maybe it changed from last time. :3 *blushes*

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Oh no! It rather changed. I'm quite the n00b and we had a massive influx of Robespierre picspam just recently. *huggles* Not to worry!

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

XD! Just a tad! LMAO!!!! XD! yeeah, that could scare off anybody!

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Yay! You've decided to invade! =D

Oooh, I hadn't seen two of these links before. Sweetness. There goes my afternoon~ XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It's always what happens with my afternoons too. XD

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yay, you're here! More help defending my Ebil!Robespierriste!opinions with... *gasp* ...facts. XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It took me some time before I ponder and decide if I would make the jump here, yes... Also, yes, I'm doing it for that. And mainly for Saint-Just. Because he needs my help. Even if he wouldn't admit. Even if I'm annoying him more than anything.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It's good. :D He does. And Maxime does too. *nods* I'm sure he appreciates it at some level...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, I posted the pic in my icon in the subject concerning the FdlES. So we can now be sure -- with a proof -- that Maxime didn't wear a dress. >.> Hmm, maybe he does. Somehow.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Maybe they confused him and the statue? XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

..........................ROTFLMAO!!!1!~

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, you know... It's really the only other thing around wearing a dress...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

And it's certainly not the Supreme Being who wears a dress. XD

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty funny though...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Maybe all the Convention deputies should have worn dresses.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It would have been entertaining, if nothing else. XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Who would have disliked it the most, you think?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That's a hard question... probably one of the Thermidorians. -__-;

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I had them in mind, yes. Hmm, what do you think of Carnot in dress?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I find it amusing--especially given how much it would likely upset him. XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It would. It would upset Billaud too. And Tallien. :D

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Anything that does that is good in my book!

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

I always thought you were already on here...

Anyway, here's a question. Or two. How and when did Saint-Just and Robespierre meet in person? And how and when did Saint-Just and Desmoulins meet? No books I've read ever explained that.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I took a look at the comm a few times, but hadn't thought of actually joining, somehow.

That's tough to answer. None of my books speak of it either... I suppose that Saint-Just met Robespierre at the beginnings of the Convention, and that he spoke with him from the very start. As for Desmoulins, I really can't tell. Since they were both living in Picardie, Saint-Just in Aisne, Desmoulins in Oise, they could have met if not by themselves, through their families, perhaps. Or maybe they met in Paris. I don't know much about Desmoulins' pre-revolutionary life or early revolutionary life, but I suppose he already had a sort of newspaper at the start of the Revolution -- Saint-Just refers to it in a letter he wrote, apparently, to Desmoulins. So it would mean that Saint-Just came to read the newspaper and may have decided to contact Desmoulins, etc. That's really all I can think of... yet another historical mystery.

Also, it's the third time I write this reply, because LJ is being a piece of annoying crap and eats it all the time, so I'm starting to be tired of writing the same stuff. I hope it works this time. >.>

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I guess it's the big mystery of the week besides what. color. blue. maxime. wore. It bothers me not knowing how everyone actually met each other. It's like watching a movie with all the profanity and good scenes censored out. Arg. Seemingly all the history books assume that detail's not important. Of course it's more important telling us they were (a)crazy, (b)incompetent, (c)born evil in the womb, or (d) all of the above.

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

I've been browzing through your comm and it's wonderful. Do you accept gen fic too?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Of course. ^__^ There are some already, I think. There's not just pr0n. There's a lot of crack too. XD

[lucilla-1789.livejournal.com]

I think that while Saint-Just was yet not taking part in the politics and living somewhere else than Paris, he wrote to Robespierre to show his admiration. At least according some history books their friendship started that way.

About the robes, my always so ideological and obsessed with antique stuff- Jacques-Louis David actually designed some funny costumes that Directorio wore before Napoleon (my enemy) took over. I've seen some of his designs, and carricatures too. They were long robes, inspired by togas and such. Quite funny looking too.

Why am I mentioning David in every post?

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

because you have taste?

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

David's awesome- nothing wrong with mentioning him! ^^

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It all started with David for me. Ah, if I never had randomly taken that course of Neoclassical Art at my first university session..... ;D

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Jacques-Louis David actually designed some funny costumes that Directorio wore before Napoleon (my enemy) took over. I've seen some of his designs, and carricatures too. They were long robes, inspired by togas and such. Quite funny looking too.

In fashion college I took a class on fashion history and the prof spent an entire lecture on pre to post revolutionary costume. All slides though, he didn't teach from a text, but I wish I still had my notes! I'm pretty sure I have pictures of David's faaabulous couture creations in some of the nine billion fashion history books I maxed my credit card out on. ;D another idea for a picspam

[lucilla-1789.livejournal.com]

Aren't the costumes awesome!

Anyway, I really don't like Neoclassism that much, but David was great painter of realistic portraits (and I like the dramatic portrait of poor Marat too)

I sort of feel strange sympathy for him, because he was so ideological and a very human mixture of good (protecting other artists from quillotine, even those he disagreed with) and mean (he shut all the old art schools down, pretty much for personal revenge)