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! :)

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

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

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

[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

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[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)