A bit of Robespierre and an introduction

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HELLO! To all you lovely people!
May this first post be a tiny homage to all of you and to the piece of history that always tends to be forgotten.

( Brount ate his spectacles so he must go without them for a while... )

Just in case: it's a spoof off of an iconic Shepard Fairey print! Dozens of them have been made, almost everyone famous has been done...so I thought Robespierre might like one, too :)

Camille curiosities

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I just wanted to share two interesting Camille books I recently acquired for my collection (one benefit of perusing eBay.fr instead of studying). I was happy to find them, and I thought you guys would also appreciate their old, moldy wonderfulness.

The first is his unedited (selected...if only it were complete!) ‘Correspondance,’ published in 1836, first edition (according to the seller). I actually just picked this up at the post office today, so I haven’t examined it very closely yet. I’ll be sure to convey/translate any letters of special interest.

The second is ‘Camille Desmoulins, Tragedy’ by Pierre Duzéa, published in 1894. I was especially interested in this, having never seen it before. My efforts to find information on Duzéa have been futile, so I guess he was pretty obscure. If anyone could tell me anything about it, that would be great.

Again, I haven’t had much time to give this a thorough reading; superficial observations don’t support any remarkable literary merit. But as I happen to be particularly interested in 19th c. representations of the Revolution, I’ll eventually give it a much closer look and report back with better details/insight.

Maybe I’ll translate an excerpt in honor of April 5th!

Just one more and that's it, I swear

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This one is for the Saint-Just lovers out there; it's got a weathered look to it this time since the photo was more minimal than the painting and it just looked so empty...

( Thank you, Mr. Angel of Death, for having a cravat that is so much easier to draw with the pen tool )

And I forgot to mention! Please, feel free to use these pieces in parts, as a whole, do whatever you want with them (draw mustaches, cut them apart, put Robespierre in a dress, whatever). I have made them for you! They are vector artworks, so if I did my work right, they should resize quite nicely without pixelating.