Monthly Discussion Point:: Saint-Just

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This month's discussion point is Saint-Just.

Thought we'd change it up a bit and discuss a person instead of an event. ;) Feel free to discuss any aspect of his life, what effect he had on the revolution, your Personal Thoughts on Saint-Just(tm) (the FrenchRevvie's version of Thoughts on Yaoi(tm)! Now with 20% more crazy poetry!), anything.

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I'm going to repress any sort of "Omsb I wuv him" outburst, so I won't put him to shame. XD That being said in case it had never been clear enough. -_-;

This is a good timing, because I felt like posting about one of his texts I read two days ago. La Raison à la morne: a short text he wrote in 1789, right after Organt. It has for context a judicial case, which the final verdict shocked public opinion. But Saint-Just doesn't write about the case, rather about the sense of it: the failure of reason. In his text, he tells the story of an unknown woman who was found dead. Nobody knew her and nobody dared to touch her because she was in rags and tatters. But finally, someone dared to touch her and found in her clothes a letter with the addressee "To Reason". So they read the letter, which was written by Necker, who tells her how he's disappointed that nobody could welcome her and that she must have been more than despaired to think of seeking refuge in France. The conclusion is that the man who read the letter just laughed and the body of Reason was brought to the morgue "where it remained for long".

The death of Reason. Modern theme, eh? I should try to find and type all the ideas Saint-Just wrote that still sound so damn actual.

I could type that short story and post a translation, btw...

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I could type that short story and post a translation, btw...

!! It would be nothing short of awesome if you did~ :D It sounds very interesting.