Saint-Just in "La Comtesse de Charny" (1989).

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Following screencaps found here: http://antoine-saint-just.fr/films/charny.html




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*horrified choked gasp of death*

*falls dead*

Sorry, but all I can say is: OH MY FUCKING SUPREME BEING.

Rant: Where is their source that says Saint-Just wore make-up à la Pompadour? I want to know. Not even Lamartine/Michelet/Nodier/Duval wrote that.

And, apparently, Saint-Just is still being "farouche". Duval's description lives:


Here's a translation of what the website has to say about it (for those who can't read French): The character of Saint-Just has a minimal and mute role in the series "La Comtesse de Charny", shown on TF1 in june-july 1989 for the Bicentenial. He doesn't even appear in the end credits. However, whoever has read the homonymous triology by Alexandre Dumas will recognise him in this dark, prim and excessively made-up young man, at the side of Robespierre. Dumas is clearly inspired by Michelet: his Saint-Just is a beautiful, effeminated young man, but not soft, leaving the impression of an automaton with his unnatural rigidity and, especially, bearing a cold and gloomy look as a being that just escaped from a grave. A real "Archangel of Death"... and it's exactly the image that the series present us.

In his novel, Dumas makes Saint-Just appear in the beginnings of the Revolution as he passes an initiatic rite to a masonic lodge, then during the September Massacres, which he coldly justifies to an emotional Robespierre, before quietly going to sleep, the night when hundreds of men die. In the series, we see him the first time on 17 july 1789, when Louis XVI goes at the Hôtel de Ville. He is welcomed by Bailly, of course, but also by Marat (!), Danton (!!) and Robespierre (!!!) next to which we see this silent and haughty "beauty" which isn't difficult to identify. After, we see the same characters reunited in a sort of Committee of Public Safety before the time, where Saint-Just always keeps his place next to the Incorruptible, mouth shut and fierce looking.


*chokes*

It's Stepford!Saint-Just.