By his desire for a just social order, by his talent as an orator, and by the intensity of his thought, Louis-Antoine Saint-Just deserves much better than that stereotype created by those who are nostalgic for the monarchy, who outlined a portrait of him as an “archangel of death.”
and this part:
Doubtless, the young man was enthusiastic: at just twenty-five years old, in 1792, he was the youngest deputy in the Convention. He was also one of its most brilliant orators. A kind of dreamer, for whom the Revolution is a means of making reality a utopia: a more equitable society. In killing him, the Convention deprived itself of one who will have incarnated the future.
almost make me swoon under the pure weight of their Oh My God Someone Kind of Gets It factor.
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This part:
By his desire for a just social order, by his talent as an orator, and by the intensity of his thought, Louis-Antoine Saint-Just deserves much better than that stereotype created by those who are nostalgic for the monarchy, who outlined a portrait of him as an “archangel of death.”
and this part:
Doubtless, the young man was enthusiastic: at just twenty-five years old, in 1792, he was the youngest deputy in the Convention. He was also one of its most brilliant orators. A kind of dreamer, for whom the Revolution is a means of making reality a utopia: a more equitable society. In killing him, the Convention deprived itself of one who will have incarnated the future.
almost make me swoon under the pure weight of their Oh My God Someone Kind of Gets It factor.