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A community dedicated to the french revolution...wow, I just couldn't believe my eyes.
I was actually searching for other people/communities with an interest in Manon Roland and found this.
My interest for the revolution goes way back to the day I saw a adaption of Jostein Gaarders "Sophie's World" and there suddenly popped up Liberté, Égalite, Franternité banners, Robespierre quoting Rousseau and Marie Olympe de Gouges on her way to the scaffold. It was a very poor adaptation of the part of the novel about the french revolution, but even now I find it somewhat charming...
Well, it was not until about a year ago that this site (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/) combined with my passion for Les Mis, that sparked my interest for the revolution again.

I've first and foremost begun to dig into the feminist aspect of the revolution and my idol is no one else but the intellectual and brilliant Madame Roland.
I know the basic facts and events of the revolution, but I'm still in the learning progress, so please be patient with my, at times, dumb questions.

Now that I've just begun high school I have none of my usual friends around me who is used to my sudden outbursts of revolutionary quotes and verses of the marseillaise so I have to keep my too violent fits inside. Therefore I'm looking foreward to discussion and silliness in this community that can help me keep my head on throughout the day. (ahaha, dumb joke. As much as I hate statements like the one in the Madame Tussuad's brouchure, something like: "her post at Versailles is cut short...as are the royal family", I can't help but use them. I know. Behead me.)