I haven't seen that picture before - I've got the 1987 translation of 'Last Letters' and it doesn't have any pictures!
Btw I know the texts are generally a bit crap, but large format (A4) type books for kids/lazy readers sometimes carry some good illustrations: I've just got one called 'Age of Revolution', an A4 size book from 1968 or thereabouts, which covers the American War of Independence and the French Revolution and has some good pics, largely it seems from the Musee Carnavalet collection, and, rather bizarrely, whilst it has a tiny pic of Saint-Just (with a caption to the effect that 'a lot of historians nowadays really like him, but he was a cold sod')it has a really big pic of his sister for no reason whatsoever...anyway, it's worth rooting in the big picture book sections of second hand book shops because late 60's/early 70's was evidently a good era for that sort of thing.
On the Barere point, sounds plausible. It's very depressing that there's only one 'Incorruptible'! Norman Hampson says somewhere that there's documentary evidence of paid Pitt agents agitating in the Jacobins. There's an odd footnote, possibly in something by Mathiez (?) where he says that Danton's declining fortunes may be linked to Fox's in England: Fox was rumoured, by the English 'Right', to be in the pay of the French. The plot thickens...(for what it's worth, I think the Fox bribery story was a slur to discredit his genuine and strongly held support for the revolution).
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Date: 2008-12-16 11:19 am (UTC)Btw I know the texts are generally a bit crap, but large format (A4) type books for kids/lazy readers sometimes carry some good illustrations: I've just got one called 'Age of Revolution', an A4 size book from 1968 or thereabouts, which covers the American War of Independence and the French Revolution and has some good pics, largely it seems from the Musee Carnavalet collection, and, rather bizarrely, whilst it has a tiny pic of Saint-Just (with a caption to the effect that 'a lot of historians nowadays really like him, but he was a cold sod')it has a really big pic of his sister for no reason whatsoever...anyway, it's worth rooting in the big picture book sections of second hand book shops because late 60's/early 70's was evidently a good era for that sort of thing.
On the Barere point, sounds plausible. It's very depressing that there's only one 'Incorruptible'! Norman Hampson says somewhere that there's documentary evidence of paid Pitt agents agitating in the Jacobins. There's an odd footnote, possibly in something by Mathiez (?) where he says that Danton's declining fortunes may be linked to Fox's in England: Fox was rumoured, by the English 'Right', to be in the pay of the French. The plot thickens...(for what it's worth, I think the Fox bribery story was a slur to discredit his genuine and strongly held support for the revolution).