1792 Assembly love-in!

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Hi - I'm going to try and upload a picture I found and love, as a follow-up to the 'neoclassical slash' on estellacat's page. It's from vol 13 of Prudhomme's weekly newspaper Revolutions de Paris, 7 Juillet 1792. I've never tried uploading pics to this site, so apologies if my first attempt at an lj cut fails horribly, as the preview suggests it will, but I just feel I have to share it with the world (or that little corner of it that likes a bit of republican slashiness, anyway).

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell - it's come out tiny! Any technical suggestions welcome, but I'm on dial-up (because I live in a picturesque British village full of thatched cottages and old people and footballers, and broadband's tentacles haven't reached this far yet) and photobucket crashes my server...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Ah- the subtitle is illegible this small, but it reads: "Le 7 Juillet 1792 sur la motion perfide de M. Lamourette Eveque de Lion qui proposa d'oublier toute haine d'opinion: aussitot une grand partie des membres s'embrassent". I forgot to look up the particulars surrounding this event, but there seem to be quite a few of these kiss and make-up sessions at the Assembly/Convention and Jacobins: the love doesn't last long...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That's special. XD

I love the two lonely ones, on the left and on the right, who seem completely despaired because they have no one to smooch. Aww. :(

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Awwww. They're so precious. XDD

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Awwww~ <3 Thanks for sharing that!

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

That come from a little known event during the Revolution. The Kiss of Lamourette. A man named Lamourette, (he might have been a deputy) gave a speech to the Convention basically saying we should, "make love not war," (yes, the first hippies were actully from the French Revolution) The Convention burst into joy, and people started randomly kissing who ever was next to them. I think only the French could do somthing like that. :)