The Manchurian Candidate...!

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

This may be old news (I only recently got broadband so moving pictures online are still a novelty to me!), but The Times (aka The London Times to those of you in the New World) has put its archive online. I still haven't explored it, but it put up some French Rev links with an article on the 14th July. The 16 July 1794 piece on the 'Character of Robespierre' is hilarious. He poisoned Marat to give him his skin disease! He was Charlotte Corday's handler! He and the CPS wrote 'Pere Duchesne' (because he's such a hardcore atheist)! And he blew up the Twin Towers with detonators in the basement! Or something like that. http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1794-07-16-02&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1794-07-16-02-008 And the article is http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/tol_archive/article4317146.ece
Funnily enough, when they report his death a few weeks later, The Times' attitude is "oh shit, he was holding it together...now there'll be chaos and war" (and there was!)

Comments

[matador41.livejournal.com]

Hi there
Could you possibly post a link to that obituary as when I went on the site I couldnt find it. Most of the articles are subscriber only
Many thanks

BTW, as a general comment, Chains of Slavery is currently available in a bilingual edition (Pole du Nord) with both versions. Otherwise his in print texts, apart from Polish Letters (which is heavily disputed by Maratistes across the Channel) are only available in french - eg letters, another novel (count Potowski) and selected articles

Oh, and anyone who wants to see a large selection of his articles (translated) can find them on his wiki profile

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Hi, I've just tried to search for it on the archive search but I'm on a slow old server and keep getting the message 'enter a valid search term' . It appeared in August 1794 (news travelling quite slowly!). You could also try one of the websites for the Coleridge and Sputhey play 'The Fall of Robespierre', which carries some of the newspaper reports in its archive section. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/robespierre/