(Mmm, I find him attractive - not ouvertly handsome and charismatic as Saint-Just was - I mean, but he was fashinating and quite masculine indeed... I have a crush on him *blush*)
Billaud was strongly anticlerical and declared himself as an atheist while Robespierre and Saint-Just, though not being exactly fond of the catholic Church, never denied the roussoian principles of the natural religion... Here their ideals were different and they had also quarrels about it (it's funny to know that during his first 2 years as a deported in Guyana Billaud had his awful tropical diseases cured by some kind nuns :D). But yes, from an ideological point of view he wasn't so different than the other two. He was more concerned on a social-economic vision of politics while Robespierre and Saint-Just focused their attention more to strictly political-organizational questions, that is to say... and it's true he disliked strong excecutive powers. He also wrote a pamphlet, "Acephalocratie" (-> "government without head" from Greek) pointing out all the evil which strong executives could bring (leading to an effective dictatorship). Actually he was member of a strong executive power, or ? :)
We won't ever know why he really took part into Thermidor (otherwise we should evocate his spirit with a Voodoo rite - he himself should have a certain familiarity with such things XD)... I believe that angriness toward certain people who seemed wanting to advocate more power for themselves, jealousy toward the same people and maybe fear for his life aren't contradictory reasons. Perhaps all of them, mixed with the surrounding atmosphere of paranoia.
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Re: Billaud-Varenne
Date: 2008-08-16 08:44 pm (UTC)(Mmm, I find him attractive - not ouvertly handsome and charismatic as Saint-Just was - I mean, but he was fashinating and quite masculine indeed... I have a crush on him *blush*)Billaud was strongly anticlerical and declared himself as an atheist while Robespierre and Saint-Just, though not being exactly fond of the catholic Church, never denied the roussoian principles of the natural religion... Here their ideals were different and they had also quarrels about it (it's funny to know that during his first 2 years as a deported in Guyana Billaud had his awful tropical diseases cured by some kind nuns :D).
But yes, from an ideological point of view he wasn't so different than the other two. He was more concerned on a social-economic vision of politics while Robespierre and Saint-Just focused their attention more to strictly political-organizational questions, that is to say... and it's true he disliked strong excecutive powers. He also wrote a pamphlet, "Acephalocratie" (-> "government without head" from Greek) pointing out all the evil which strong executives could bring (leading to an effective dictatorship). Actually he was member of a strong executive power, or ? :)
We won't ever know why he really took part into Thermidor (otherwise we should evocate his spirit with a Voodoo rite - he himself should have a certain familiarity with such things XD)... I believe that angriness toward certain people who seemed wanting to advocate more power for themselves, jealousy toward the same people and maybe fear for his life aren't contradictory reasons. Perhaps all of them, mixed with the surrounding atmosphere of paranoia.