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.
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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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
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Date: 2007-08-09 05:54 pm (UTC)Okay, back to Saint-Just, what I also find interesting about him is the potential that he had. If he lived, I think History would be very different. He probably would have been the leader of France, not Robespierre. I think SJ's personaitly was to strong to be just Robespierre's diciple. What do you think?
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Date: 2007-08-10 10:22 am (UTC)I think Saint-Just was definatly Robespierre's colleague (See letter) when they were on the CPS, but they Robespierre probably started off as SJ's patron.
Okay, the letter from Robespierre to Saint-Just and LeBas (Taken from Curtis):
My friends, the commitee has taken all measures dependent on it at the moment to second your zeal. It charges me to write to you to explain the motives of its dispositions. It has thought that the priniple cause of the late reserve was the lack of skilled generals; it will send you such patriotic and instructed soldiers as it may discover...for the rest it relies on your energy and you wisdom. Greetings and friendship.
Now, this letter sounds more like a colleage than a superior. Lastly, on 6 Prairial, The Committee sent a letter to SJ asking him to come back to Paris due to poltical termoil. Robespierre wrote the letter, 5 members signed it. SJ went back, decided he was needed at the army more, and went back with even more power. It comes across as SJ almost becoming the master.