Camus' teen goth Saint-Just...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Another query - does anyone know the source, if any, for Albert Camus' description of Saint-Just (presumably while a law student) living in a room with black walls with teardrop patterns and the shutters closed? This sounds too teen-angsty to be true, but would be wonderful if it was (reminds me of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, when in a fit of depression he paints his bedroom black but Noddy's bells keep showing through!). Camus mentions it in the Saint-Just chapter of 'The Rebel'.

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Darn, none of the 20thc historian are that much fun! Saint-Just 'Harolding'! (as in 'Harold and Maude'). Oh, this just gets better!
Actually - though I can't really see it happening (well, maybe!)- it wouldn't be too hard to get skulls in the days of shallow graves and catacombs and above-ground tombs...there was a man going round the Glastonbury Festival one year with a sack of them he'd obviously nicked from a crypt-clearance! He was selling them at £50 a head...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

He was selling them at £50 a head...
Ew. *weeps for the loss of human dignity and innocence once again*

Darn, none of the 20thc historian are that much fun!
It depends. Norman Hampson and Thomas Crow, for only two examples, are quite "amusing" sometimes. .__.

Saint-Just 'Harolding'! (as in 'Harold and Maude').
It would explain why some movies seem determined in showing Robespierre aged of 50 or 60 years old.

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I like Norman Hampson! Even the Saint-Just book - he sounds like a bad tempered tutor going on about a student he particularly dislikes: "even his spelling was bad!"

Geriatric Robespierres..the 1930's Scarlet Pimpernel was on again a few weeks ago, and I think they must have got him mixed up with Mirabeau! It's the one that starts "June 1792, and Robespierre, dictator of France, is sending dozens to the guillotine..." so old man Robespierre is the least of the problems. Fun, though!

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[pevampire.livejournal.com]

Saint-Just's spelling......*giggle* his handwriting isn't exactly pretty either....(..) that's so cute