*snort* Can you imagine? A provincial lawyer snaps his fingers and a Revolution starts?
Well, many people acknowledge that the spirit went out of the Republic after that, but not showing the Thermidorian Convention or the Directory allows them to portray the Terror as the worst of all possible worlds, when, for common people at least, life got much worse after Thermidor.
It would be nice, but as you said, any sort of acknowledgement of the Revolution is not likely to come again until the next big anniversary: as in, maybe 2014, but more likely nothing much until 2039....At which point we'll be older than the Revolutionaries. *sighs*
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Date: 2006-08-05 04:07 am (UTC)Well, many people acknowledge that the spirit went out of the Republic after that, but not showing the Thermidorian Convention or the Directory allows them to portray the Terror as the worst of all possible worlds, when, for common people at least, life got much worse after Thermidor.
It would be nice, but as you said, any sort of acknowledgement of the Revolution is not likely to come again until the next big anniversary: as in, maybe 2014, but more likely nothing much until 2039....At which point we'll be older than the Revolutionaries. *sighs*