ext_311538 ([identity profile] missweirdness.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] revolution_fr2009-06-29 08:00 pm

Question about that day..

OH NO! She's gonna talk about it..Yes..that horrible black day Thermidor..I'm a bit confused on it. Even in books..I'm like WTF?
 okay, here's what i do know.

Maxime and Co get arrested and sent to different prisons. They get released and all sort of beautiful things..xD So at the end, they're at City Hall at night..and..

that's where i get stumped.

I know Maxime attempted suicide and the others tried the same..well it seems like they were xD  I know Hanriot was outside with his soldiers, but they got lazy and tired, and went home. So again. I know Maxime was like hesisting to do anything..I know the robespierrist Mayor Les or whatever his name (too lazy to look it up -_-) And it may or may not rained.

Was Maxime alone with his associates? Was he with the commune? I'm so confused. I know the mess after. But why did he attempt to kill himself? That puzzled me. and why didn't they take any definitive action for their lives? (i'd do anything to save my life..clawing at people xD) Was it a lost cause?

Why didn't he try harder to save himself?

I'm prolly dumb xD and special..but i've always wondered it.  And i guess..since they lost the Commune.(as it gave up on them..) they were sitting ducks weren't they?

Anything helps xD Any corrections.xD  Any explantations for this?
 

[identity profile] neuropathology.livejournal.com 2009-07-02 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Finding and identifying the body would be impossible at this point. I was more referring to eliminating the confusion over whether or not the blood staining the document to be sent to Robespierre's Section that night (the one where his signature is incomplete) is even his blood. Or whether the gun handed to him by Lebas has ever been fired. If Robespierre did not attempt suicide on Thermidor 9, there is a small chance that it has not.

(Anonymous) 2009-07-02 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if they could determine whether the blood on the document is Robespierre's, seeing as that would require something to compare it to and there isn't that much of it (a lock of hair, I think??).