Accounts of Committee meeting on March 30, '94 (when Danton's arrest was ordered)??

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

I know that there aren't any official minutes of the March 30 joint meeting of the Committees (or any meeting, really), but there are at least partial accounts of what transpired. Does anyone know of a relatively complete account, either from some primary source document (ie. someone's memoirs) or something pieced together by historians)?

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Yes, please add me! I'm still fairly new to the technical whatnots of broadband internet, but I will try and post up more Lj stuff as I learn - it's so much better than Facebook!

Darnton's essay still goes much deeper than other things I've read in English on Wajda's film, which tended to be 'it's an allegory of the Solidarity movement', and left it at that, which left me thinking - if Danton's Lech Walesa, how come he's eating stuffed fish while the people queue for bread? - and Darnton does raise that point, too. The other essays on the film online are on 'Jstor', which I can't access, damnit! It's interesting reading the viewer comments on youtube, though, where there's the clip of Robespierre's speech, and imdb, because they're very mixed - some going yay George W, smash the left (err? what?) and some Go Robespierre!, and, well, all shades of opinion about it, really - it's the sign of a interesting piece of cinema, that so many people can take so many different things from it. They should use it in politics classes, though, not history, if they are showing it in schools (though I wish we'd had Franco-Polish cinema shown in our school! We did once have Derek Jarman's version of The Tempest - the teacher switched it off quickly when a bloke emerged from the sea naked! She hadn't realised - Derek Jarman, famously gay film director...

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

Well, so long as you don't mind a lot of silly girlish babbling (...no, I don't babble much, because I never post). Ah, and there are technical whatnots on the internet?!

I have not ventured into said youtube comments... hm. But it would be terrible if everybody reacted the same way, I suppose. Also I think it's something you can look at a little differently each time you see it. Well, in the end I'm glad we watched it in school - because I guess I wouldn't be here otherwise! - my teacher was a bit eccentric, and I must say I think he's very cool for showing Danton. However - I don't think he himself had considered it in so much depth, he certainly didn't mention any of that to us (although I do recall him going on about the Polish actors..) - I do think it would have been even cooler shown in some other context. Like a politics class? Too bad we had no such thing at my school, except for what passed for a course on American democracy. I don't know where Wajda would have fit in between this-is-what-pork-barrelling-is-so-never-ever-skip-jury-duty-exam-friday.