JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE, ANTOINE ! Some arts and one question

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Today is the 241th anniversary since Antoine Saint-Just's birth. All the best to my most beloved Citoyen :x !
It's a perfect day to dedicate to him some drawings. I made them with traditional items (pencils, ink, felter-pens) so they are full of mistakes. But I am lazy and I don't have the suppport of an appropriate pc software, so I leave them just as they are. Here the portraits:

Louis Antoine Saint-Just after me + Prudhon

This is my favourite Antoine's portrait ever.
I am sorry because the sentence at the bottom is written badly. But I decided to leave it as it was. Too lazy to change it. 





Louis Antoine Saint-Just after me & Greuze 1

My second favourite Antoine's portrait ever.
Someone say it's not him in the picture (it would be Talleyrand instead) but I don't believe it. The features of this cinically smart, cooly outrageous feline predator are typically Antoine's. More, I love it to be him 


Ps.: I added those golden earrings and stole over the verses on a yellow background from Rimbaud - thank you, Arthur !






Louis Antoine Saint-Just after me & Greuze 2

Other (and beloved) portrait. I have seen it only on a b/w version so the colour (included that kitsch one of his clothes) is mine too.

(If you want to see the portraits in an enlarged and higher definition version then check my DeviantArt: http://www.fatimahcrossin.deviantart.com)



Saint-Just's portraits raise a question - the well-known one of his physical appearence: how did he really look like ?
We know many portraits, prints, engravings etc. all featuring him but each one of them shows a man who looks completely different from the others (I am sure you know all his portraits - if there is anyone who doesn't here it is a good link with a rather complete list of his iconography: http://www.saint-just.net/arts.html).
 Plus, written accounts aren't of much more help. His contemporaries' witnesses vary one from another and they are often in an open contradiction. So again: how did Antoine really look like ?
Despite what it is often commonly said, I believe physical appearence is (at least in a certain way) "the mirror of personality" - an old Sicilian proverb tells - and physiognomy has its reasons to be, I guess.
Antoine was handsome, yes, this appears to be the most common opinion about its physical appearence - how was he handsome ?

Comments

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

[fatimahcrossin.livejournal.com]

(There are too many posts here - that makes me confused :D)

Yes, Berlusconi is a complete crap, but the pseudo Left-winged government which we had before wasn't much better. Berlusconi put the army around in all the major Italian towns (mine among these !), but it was the so-called Left-winged government which completely destroyed our Welfare State and reduced most of Italian people to poverty...
I haven't been voting since years !

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

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It even made the news over here that they had to send in the army to deal with garbage problems in Naples. I guess the Camorra took over the job and was just leaving the trash all over the place...including the toxic stuff.

There may be more to it than that, of course...we only get brief bursts of news about things that don't involve us!

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

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Hehe, so have you heard about it ? Actually Berlusconi sent the army in Neaples to fight the demostrators (they were thousands people) who protested against that garbage invasion... of course it is not only a Camorra's business. There are collusions with local politicians, factories who don't want to pay taxes for garbage and yes, you get the impression the government has all the interest to leave things just as they are.

Unfortunately Berlusconi sent the army also in many other big towns (mine included !) to "fight against baby-gangs and small criminals" - this is the excuse !! But then you find out all these soldiers are highly specialized and equipped, they often come from missions in Kosovo, Iraq or Afghanistan... so, should we believe they have been sent around to find supermarket thieves and angry students ??
My Goddess.

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

I hope you get this...my computer is acting weird!

It sounds like the trick they use in Mexico...where they send in the army to fight the drug cartels. But then it turns out that they only attack the cartels that aren't paying enough bribes...leaving the ones that are paying enough to take over the spoils.

Are the areas Berlusconi sends the troops places that voted against him?

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

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Hehe, it is the same ! :D

Actually he sent the troops anywhere... also in places which voted mostly for him. There is a great rise of violence in Italy, especially in the suburbs. People are angry, desperate, they can hardly afford a less than decent quality of life - and Berlusconi is afraid of revolts, that's the question !

Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

I would ask why they can't get rid of that guy, but we've had Bush for 8 years!