I have a fairly high opinion of Saint-Just, and not because of his looks either. No more than because my sister has an irrational hatred of him--which I expect goes along with her irrational love of Camille Desmoulins. (Allow to explain: it's not always irrational to hate Saint-Just--for example, it's perfectly logical if you are a royalist and/or a Prussian--nor is it always irrational to like Camille Desmoulins. It's just when these judgments are based entirely on novels and films that it irks me. Both Saint-Just and Desmoulins are both historical figures and ought to be judged as such. They're not characters in a novel--basing one's judgment of them on what any particular novelist has to say is dishonest and irrational. /rant)
I esteem Saint-Just for (among other things) his principles, his loyalty, his eloquence, and his bravery--about in that order. I also find the reputation he has with most people to be undeserved and inaccurate. He's not cold, icy, glacial, frost-bitten, an ice-citizen, or an ice-cube machine. He's also not some beautiful incarnation of death, or of the Terror. And, for the record, he did not "kill" Desmoulins because he was jealous of him/spurned by him/insulted by him/hated his guts/thought his hairstyle was ridiculous/adjust to personal taste. In fact, he didn't "kill" Desmoulins at all. But that, I suppose is another story. /rant #2
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Date: 2007-08-06 10:38 pm (UTC)I esteem Saint-Just for (among other things) his principles, his loyalty, his eloquence, and his bravery--about in that order. I also find the reputation he has with most people to be undeserved and inaccurate. He's not cold, icy, glacial, frost-bitten, an ice-citizen, or an ice-cube machine. He's also not some beautiful incarnation of death, or of the Terror. And, for the record, he did not "kill" Desmoulins because he was jealous of him/spurned by him/insulted by him/hated his guts/thought his hairstyle was ridiculous/adjust to personal taste. In fact, he didn't "kill" Desmoulins at all. But that, I suppose is another story. /rant #2