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

[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, 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.