More Thermidorian propaganda, 2008 (for U.S. schoolchildren)?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I've just come across (whilst googling) a new book FOR CHILDREN called "Robespierre, Master of the Guillotine". The cover has what is easily the worst caricature of him I've ever seen (looking like a butch country squire), with the word 'Tyrant' graffiti'd across it in big blue letters, lest yer be in any doubt. It's in the 'Wicked History' series, which I presume is the U.S. equivalent of the G.B. 'Horrible Histories', and it looks like every damn library in the U.S. has a copy. It hasn't infested these shores yet, and there are no reviews on line, so, who knows, it may just be that it's using words like that as a marketing ploy to entice gore-minded children to read it, only to inform them in a lucid manner that Robespierre wasn't anything like the cackling baddie you see in all the films, etc..
But I doubt it.

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[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

and he actually looks weirdly like Michelle Pfieffer, with smallpox scars.
That's highly disturbing O_O The same goes for the book.

with the word 'Tryant' graffiti'd across it in big blue letters, lest yer be in any doubt.
Is there really necessary to set them up against Robespierre? You should think they already have a sufficient number of authorities to revolt against...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Still, here's a happy thought! Hopefully the kids will think the opposite of whatever the authority figure/teacher tells them (I know I did, and I suppose the same must be true for a lot of people on this site). Actually, in a perverse sort of way it's good to know that Robespierre and co still scare a section of the establishment enough that they still feel the need to produce this sort of propaganda (assuming the book itself is as bad as the cover suggests).