Out of curiosity, how does he handle the bit where Desmoulins spent a while writing Annette love-letters before getting engaged to Lucile?
One thing that interests me about the 19th/early 20th c. biographies I've read is that they seem to prefer the he-watched-Lucile-blossom-imperceptibly-from-a-child-into-a-woman style of things over having him carry on a more-or-less polite flirtation with a married woman and then getting involved with her daughter. It's a very trivial bit of history, but it interests me in terms of what kind of fiction people have liked to develop for themselves in different periods.
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Date: 2010-02-06 02:00 pm (UTC)One thing that interests me about the 19th/early 20th c. biographies I've read is that they seem to prefer the he-watched-Lucile-blossom-imperceptibly-from-a-child-into-a-woman style of things over having him carry on a more-or-less polite flirtation with a married woman and then getting involved with her daughter. It's a very trivial bit of history, but it interests me in terms of what kind of fiction people have liked to develop for themselves in different periods.