Re: Maxime's hair. Seriously, I was just there a day or two ago and I was like "Huh! It's white!" My only guess was that it absorbed the powder? Or that it wasn't really Robespierre's hair. Or that due to stress he went waaaaay prematurely gray.
Re: Camille. Fear not, I have reflected on this question a lot. It's not just that website and Mantel's book though, as he is portrayed as bisexual in "City of Darkness, City of Light" (I'm pretty sure, it's been a long time since I read the book), and then there's "The Danton Case" in which everyone has a kind of questionable sexuality (Robespierre-sexual?). The only historical evidence that Camille may have been bi comes from guesses based on his personality/behavior and a line in the notes Robespierre took on the Dantonists.
(Translated by me as part of my Desmoulins translation project, I don't have the original French with me at the moment.)
"Proof of Danton’s ungrateful and black soul: He had loudly applauded Desmoulins’ latest works; at the Jacobins he dared to call for freedom of the press when I proposed that they should have the honors of being burned. During the last visit I mentioned, he spoke to me of Desmoulins with contempt: He attributed his deviances to a secret and shameful vice that has no relation to the Revolution."
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Re: Camille. Fear not, I have reflected on this question a lot. It's not just that website and Mantel's book though, as he is portrayed as bisexual in "City of Darkness, City of Light" (I'm pretty sure, it's been a long time since I read the book), and then there's "The Danton Case" in which everyone has a kind of questionable sexuality (Robespierre-sexual?). The only historical evidence that Camille may have been bi comes from guesses based on his personality/behavior and a line in the notes Robespierre took on the Dantonists.
(Translated by me as part of my Desmoulins translation project, I don't have the original French with me at the moment.)
"Proof of Danton’s ungrateful and black soul: He had loudly applauded Desmoulins’ latest works; at the Jacobins he dared to call for freedom of the press when I proposed that they should have the honors of being burned. During the last visit I mentioned, he spoke to me of Desmoulins with contempt: He attributed his deviances to a secret and shameful vice that has no relation to the Revolution."