Question for the sane..
Oct. 21st, 2009 04:05 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
I know that the festival of the supreme being hastened Maxime's fall but certaintly he must of known this, right? Why didn't anyone stop him? I mean why did the CPS and convention or any of his allies ever stopped him? And how in the hell, did they let him stage IT?!! Did they not have any sense either? I'm seriously wondering that xD I mean..that's bugged me when i read all sorts of things on it but they never explained why. Unless..everyone was on crack..then i can totally understand.
>.> and expect some fanart from me in a few days time. Hahah, i have some other twisting ideas that should be fun to draw xD *cracks up*
and on a total unrelated note: The CPS's table. Their table. I swear to the supreme being that i keep thinking it's circle or oval rather than a rectangle or SQUARE; =/ (which still pisses me off that we were lied that a square and rectangle were DIFFERENT shapes, not a special type of rectangle or special type of square. whatever =/ IGNORE ME xD Ranting a lot xD)
>.> and expect some fanart from me in a few days time. Hahah, i have some other twisting ideas that should be fun to draw xD *cracks up*
and on a total unrelated note: The CPS's table. Their table. I swear to the supreme being that i keep thinking it's circle or oval rather than a rectangle or SQUARE; =/ (which still pisses me off that we were lied that a square and rectangle were DIFFERENT shapes, not a special type of rectangle or special type of square. whatever =/ IGNORE ME xD Ranting a lot xD)
no subject
Date: 2009-10-21 11:18 pm (UTC)Whatever *we* might think of the idea of the FdlES, we need to keep that separate from how it was perceived at the time. If the question is, why didn't Robespierre's friends and allies stop him from supporting and then presiding the FdlES, then the answer is likely,
a) many of them thought it was a good idea too,
b) they didn't necessarily recognize, lacking the hindsight of historians, that this would contribute to his downfall (remember, they don't know about Thermidor at that point), and
c) even if they did feel that the FdlES would be impolitic, people tend to forget just how idealistic the Robespierristes were; not everything was raw political maneuvering with them: sometimes they just did things because they accorded with their principles. (On the political side of it, however, there's also the issue that Robespierre throughout his career always thought it more important to be popular with the people than with his colleagues in whatever assembly he belonged to, and by that criterion, the FdlES was a success, as mentioned above.)
no subject
Date: 2009-10-21 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 07:41 am (UTC)