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[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

First and foremost, I am quite nervous about this first-time post. So, hello to you all, and please be gentle with me.

I discovered this comm only today and it has successfully distracted me from exam-studying for seven plus hours. No mean feat! I am very grateful. However, I also fear I am turning into Stanislawa Przybyszewska, so I've decided to make this post and then slowly back away from the Robespierre/French Revolution related websites.

While we're on the subject of that wonderful, wonderful man, however...I assume most of you will have already read this, but just in case you haven't, I wanted to link you all to this incredible review written by Hilary Mantel of a collection of Robespierre's essays. It actually doesn't discuss the collection much, if at all, and is more a meandering commentary on Robespierre's various historical depictions. I cannot describe how much I enjoyed reading it. I actually teared up at the end. I haven't been this obsessed since I stumbled across Arthur Rimbaud's poetry.

And, on that note, happy obsessing, all. Having found this comm, I feel a little less alone now in my insane adoration. So again, thankyou. <3

For the full Stani...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Has anyone tried this, or know how/if it works? http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33264&mode=feedback (that should be a link to a thingyo download that converts your computer dates to the republican calendar. If it doesn't, google 'salut et fraternite' without the é and versions should come up. Unless it's a cunning right wing plot to crash the computers of lefties!). I'll give it a go when I've upgraded my computer to OSX bigger cat than wot I've got. And then reply to the sodding royalist who has already left a comment on the site.