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Ah hahaha I want to be the first one to post here! So, I suppose what I would start out by saying is that, for those of us who tend to attach ourselves to certain sides or figures in history, the FR is a prickly one, isn't it? Cause pretty much everyone behaved pretty horribly at one point or another! So do you feel sympathetic towards the Jacobins or the san-cullotes or the Giordonists (sp?) or what?, because they all resorted to killing at one point or another. Personally, I find Robiespierre a very tragic figure, someone who lost their goodness in zealous pursuit of it; so he is a great parable for what can happen when we get a little *too* into our ideas, and we are a little *too* sure they are right. Marat however I think was a complete sack of scum, depsite how much I like that painting....and when I wrote a paper for my FR course, I argued that the san-cullotes and their demands were largely responsible for a lot of the human rights abuses and the escalation towards the Terror...

And finally, there has recently been an excellent article on the Terror and the new book on it in the New Yorker, I highly reccomend reading it. If it is not available online, and I get enough requests, I would be willing to try to figure out a way to make a PDF file linkable from here, but I will have to get enough requests for that!

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I think I'd go with the Jacobins because they were really the faction of change, but like Danton I would have wanted to start backing off once I saw what the Terror was doing. I really love Saint-Just though! His speeches, especially his first one calling for the death of Louis XVI, were so ballsy and confident. I love reading them and imagining him actually give them on the floor of the National Convetion. I don't think I would have liked him back then, but as a historic figure, he's wonderful, as is Robespierre.

It would be awesome if you could make that PDF, because I couldn't find the article on newyorker.com and I'd really love to see it. Do you remember the title of the book?

Also, this is just me being picky, but could you not make all your posts in bold? They hurt my eyes a bit. Sorry. And you can make changes to your posts after you post them, you know. For spelling mistakes or whatever. There's a little button that looks like a pencil at the top of every post.

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*lol* whoops guess so. Sorry about that. I won't post on bold on here from now on!, not a problem.

*lol* Saint-Just was completey insane. But I think that is what you are hitting on in terms of his appeal. I myself have never found him appealing but then again I haven't sat down to read his speeches.

I do not have the article with me at the moment, but when I will post it later when I do. And yeah, I'll try to PDF that article; it will take some time as I have never done it before and I have finals this week, but I'll try to sqeeze it in. And oh, the new book on the Terror, in any case, can be found in Barnes & Nobles; at mine it was in the "New History" section but it might not be elsewhere. I'll post the title here later tonight in any case.