Announce: Update of a Saint-Just Website

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

This website on Saint-Just was updated. There are some very interesting parts:

- An analysis of his portraits (and I think I finally know which one was kept by the Le Bas family...) + one I hadn't seen before (but it's not so pretty).

- The colourful portraits of his parents. I hadn't seen them in colour before, I think, so I'm glad. Hm. I think he has his mother's mouth and the shape of her eyes, somehow... and, the nose of both. ^^;

- A page on Robespierre's 250th -- where estellacat and I were. And, look, I found myself:



^^; I was very likely playing with my camera if you're wondering what I was doing. ._. /shameless self-pimping.



I don't know if there's anybody in France at the moment, but there is, on November 23rd (yes, that's in three days), the presentation of a play on Thermidor in Arras:

23 novembre 2008: pour les 250 ans de Robespierre, l'ARBR organise à Arras la lecture par la compagnie "A livre ouvert" d'une pièce inédite de Caroline Fregeac "THERMIDOR". Rendez-vous à 16 heures, à l'Office culturel d'Arras.

It's on the page of news where you can also find a quite girl-looking portrait of Saint-Just too, ughh ._.

Comments

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Ahh I see you! hahah. That's great. Ahhh those people are giving Maxime flowers. XD that's so sweet...XD I wanna do that..Oh my god. That play on thermidor? the horror..;_;

At least i can die happy. They love him!

[citoyennemiyuki.livejournal.com]

LOOOOOOOOOL, Sorry Maelicia, it is funny. You are very lucky, you have been in France^^ I haven't.....
did you discover this site on my LJ page?
There are many good pictures in this site, that I haven't seen before.

[citoyennemiyuki.livejournal.com]

I don't understand last french sentenceT_T what will be on 23rd november?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Wow - his parents. There's a real nose thing going on there, isn't there?

[hanriotfran.livejournal.com]

Why, Maelicia! Playing with yur camera in a so important and stern moment? Shame on you! Lol...

I'm burning with will of bieng in Arras just to see "Thermidor" play. People from AMRID are really good when we are speaking of accuracy of an historical piece. Dominique Rndelot and Daniel Somogyi always does wonderful jobs.

Oh! I JUST want to go and watch this play! I suppose that my sweet, lovely François will be in the "Thermidor" play...and I hope he shouldn't be similar to the one from "La Revolution Française- Années de Rage", but rather in the same style of the one from "La Terreur et la vertu".

Thanks for warning us about the update of Saint-Just website. I didn't visit it yet, after some weeks. But sure I do!

HanriotFran (Vanesa)

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

a play about Thermidor.. .-_- i know. the horror.

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update! Ouch, I see Saint-Just's sister got her father's nose.

I am in France right now, but I am in Paris and I can't make it up to Arras for the weekend. Zut! I've been wondering if there's anyone on this board who lives in Paris or the surrounding areas. It'd be rather funny if this were a board of French Revolution fans without a single person from Paris (except for myself who doesn't really count).

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

I know. And he supposedly ended up with a large chin?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I presume you mean the anonymous pastel drawing with the centre parting and blue jacket with buttons? It does look very like the bust David D'Angers said he made from a pastel borrowed from the Le Bas family - it also looks very like the drawing one book I have says was drawn by his landlady that isn't shown here (though I suppose it's possible the drawing/etching in the book was made from the pastel by someone else, rather than being a preparation drawing for the pastel...)

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.saint-just.net/art/bustdangers.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.saint-just.net/art.html&usg=__xz_gCcotvH4GizNPpe7iXweTQrs=&h=582&w=384&sz=72&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=_l8fwSj4XB2UeM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsaint-just%2Bd%2527angers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DG&um=1^

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

...is supposed to be the David d'Angers bust...though I have to add every damn book, internet page etc. seems to attribute portraits, not just of Saint-Just but all of them from this period, to a different artist every time I see them!

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes... but I think he took it from his father. XD;

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I think it was at the break between the conference by Jessenne and the little show. ^^;

I suppose it would be closer to "La Terreur et la vertu", because, after all, that was the most robespierriste film (while LRF: Les Années Terribles wasn't), and that's the robespierriste sanctuary. ^^;;;

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Isn't there? XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Hm, I knew that site already existed, but there were only pages on the film, and the rest was still in construction. I was googling something else on Saint-Just and saw she had updated with a big iconography section. :O

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It will be the presentation of a play titled "THERMIDOR" by Caroline Fregeac. :)

(Sorry, I misread.)

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, but robespierriste interpretations of Thermidor are usually... well... tragically heroic and thus 'well-done'. Though depressing, but that's the unavoidable characteristic of it. >.>

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

XDDD

I don't know if there's actually anyone who lives in France and who's on this community. It's quite international... but French. D:!

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one. I sort of doubted it was it, but never saw a clear indication that it was really the one the Le Bas family had kept. Since Élisabeth had kept it because it resembled Saint-Just, I guess that means I must get used to thinking of him as a 'blonde' with 'blue eyes'? Ugh.

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Well damn. I guess that means I'm the Paris correspondent.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

that makes it a little better i suppose. I'm tired of reading horrible accounts that make me cry..;_; Thermidor will always be depressing..

[citoyennemiyuki.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, Thermidor is big shock for robespierristes >__>

[citoyennemiyuki.livejournal.com]

after all I would like to see this kind of playing....I watched playing about Thermidor only in films, that wasn't so good. (I mean in "la revolution francaise" film)

[citoyennemiyuki.livejournal.com]

I have found this site too, when I searched something about Saint-Just in google....

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

it actually makes me cry. I don't wanna believe it happens...
I refuse to believe it XD just because....could they just make thermidor all nice and fluffy?