Picspam as promised a billion years ago

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Salut!

Today's a short picspam, but I think you'll find it interesting. More's on the way as soon as I find the time to scan and edit. Two big pics, the rest are linked.

Random questions: Does anyone know of any articles/books, preferably in English, about castration anxiety during the French Revolution? Any books/online resources, in French or English, dealing extensively with anti-Robespierre propaganda both before and after Thermidor?

Fragment of a letter from Saint-Just to Desmoulins.


Address on a letter from LeBas to his wife.


A page from Robespierre's private notebook. Two pages, actually.


Floor plan of the Duplay house (ground floor aka the 1st floor).


Floor plan of the Duplay house (1st floor aka the 2nd floor)


A really cool phrygian cap motif.

Thermidorian caricature against the two Robespierres and Saint-Just. (I don't quite know how to translate C'est ainsi qu'on punit les traitres. What does ainsi que mean?) Hot damn, S-J and Bonbon look super pissed and super angry while Robesy looks remarkably calm and Harry Potter-like.

Robespierre wounded. Salon de Paris 1912. Postcard in my collection.

...And to keep with the OMSB! theme, let's rewind to past picspams O, the nostalgia!: make sure you celebrate the biggest party of '94 with stylish accessories while looking awesome and pointing up at the sky. Notice the flowers in his other hand.

Comments

[pedrolino.livejournal.com]

Keeping in mind that my French is rather dreadful, I think ainsi is something like "like this"? So, would it be 'This is how one punishes traitors' or something?

[lucilla-1789.livejournal.com]

Your translation is correct (I think...my french is getting worse every day...)
I love those fans with political stuff. There's a fashion statement that needs to come back! I have pictures of a hébertist fan, with burning crosses and bibles and such. That would cause some problems nowadays...

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, his caligraphy is NUTS! Thanks for sharing!!

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Ainsi que = more or less "thus". So it could be translated as: "Thus is how you punish the traitors". Or "This is how you punish the traitors". Wtf though, I can't even tell who is who... Wait a moment: it's fucking written on their foreheads. FOR REASON'S SAKE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRAND WISDOM OF IDENTIFICATION, THERMIDORIANS. *HEADDESKS-DESKS-DESKS-CHOPS-BLEEDS* (But what's E R B P?) However, I will now try to erase this caricature from my memory forever and do as if it didn't exist -- I could have lived quite well without it.

Otherwise, I really do love the picspam. I like Saint-Just's writing -- and oh, his signature! And oh, Le Bas! I hadn't seen Le Bas' writing yet. And the plan is cool and helpful. :D

The only thing I have featuring castrating!Robespierre are the ravings of an art historian, which I posted about a few weeks ago on my LJ (http://maelicia.livejournal.com/313258.html).

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! I actually hadn't seen three of those pictures before... (Which is pretty rare for me, when if comes to Maxime XD)

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

...I can't stop laughing when I look at the little letters inscribed between Saint-Just's enormous and ever so sinister widow's peak. Well, somebody's awfully grumpy..

Also, Robespierre's handwriting is insanely nice-looking. And I wish I could read the Saint-Just letter.

Thank you. :D

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, sweetness. Should we try to analyze Saint-Just;s and Le Bas' handwriting, too? XD

Dear me, that Thermidorian propaganda...O.o Saint-Just looks like Dracula.