Question about that day..

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

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?

 

Comments

[neuropathology.livejournal.com]

If I understand correctly (and I feel like I do), forensic science COULD be employed to clear up at least some of the confusion about what took place on the ninth of Thermidor. It just hasn't been.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

nor have they found his body..have they? I mean they checked Zachary Taylor...and saw he wasn't poisoned..but he had a body. So i have no idea. xD But i'm just saying it could be done if we had Maxime's body maybe..who knows..

[neuropathology.livejournal.com]

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.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

then what the hell am i going on about xD I'm going crazy here @_@ I wish we could find it now..too bad..OH YEAH! that document! I forgot about it! Yeah you're right! Definitely right *goes back to munch on cookies* *nods*

[(Anonymous)]

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??).