Thank you ! I don't know why (there is not a rational reason for it), nonethless I can feel this man someway. Once I even thought to write a screenplay for a film about his life concerning not only the phase regarding the French revolution (which made him an historical character of course), I mean his whole life until his death in Haiti). I have to say I still haven't entirely put the idea aside...
I believe that in general one can't judge people's behaviour through strict oppositions - I mean this makes a contradiction=bad, this not=good etc. Human behaviour is much more complex than this (luckily !). So I rather prefer to avoid definite ideas about Nicky's behaviour as being a member of one of the strongest executive powers ever created in the last 3 centuries. It could have been an act of mere opportunism, you know, or he could have been honest and really wanting to do something good. Or both, that could be not a contradiction again, or ?
Re: Billaud-Varenne
Once I even thought to write a screenplay for a film about his life concerning not only the phase regarding the French revolution (which made him an historical character of course), I mean his whole life until his death in Haiti). I have to say I still haven't entirely put the idea aside...
I believe that in general one can't judge people's behaviour through strict oppositions - I mean this makes a contradiction=bad, this not=good etc. Human behaviour is much more complex than this (luckily !). So I rather prefer to avoid definite ideas about Nicky's behaviour as being a member of one of the strongest executive powers ever created in the last 3 centuries. It could have been an act of mere opportunism, you know, or he could have been honest and really wanting to do something good. Or both, that could be not a contradiction again, or ?