French Revolution Game

[racaille.livejournal.com]

What? "Le bleu vous va si bien" (Blue suits you so well) a live-action roleplaying (LARP) game set in 1793 Brittany. This celtic region on the west coast of France was famous for its anti-revolutionary activity, so players could play either side (historically, "blues" were the revolutionaries, "whites" the royalists).

When? A few weeks ago, near perfect timing for Bastille Day :)

Where? near Quimper, Finistère, Brittany

Who? In Nomine Ludis, a Breton LARP group



And they had a cannon!




A traditional Breton outfit. I just love the pants.











Even more pics over there



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Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I suppose... But many people still take those distinctions seriously, so that's why I would possibly suspect those who want to play the whites of really agreeing with their politics.

[tearosefury.livejournal.com]

Oh common', don't you have at least a little pity for some good old fashioned royalists? They had cause enough in their own minds for their opinions.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

In their own minds... being either brainwashed, selfish and self-interested, or deranged. No, I don't pity them--especially since, whatever they profess, it's well documented that they were just as ruthless and brutal to the "blues" as the blues were to them.

[racaille.livejournal.com]

This can be actually be found in historical reenactment troupes: "whites" reenactors are often royalists IRL and "blues" reenactors are well... a bit more normal ;). But this is not historical reenactment: in LARPs people play usually fictional characters with specific goals, there's a secret plot that may have nothing to do with history, and most of the action is improvised. The setting is historical but the same people may very well play in a Starship Troopers LARP or a Lord of the Rings LARP next month.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

As I said, that does change the situation quite a bit. I won't deny that modern-day royalists are a bit frightening, and also a bit pathetic, especially since they can hardly plead ignorance or that the republic has harmed them in any way, like their forebears.