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revolution_frSalut! I come bearing more art. Just two doodles today of Marat and Simonne-- WHY ARE THERE NO PICTURES OF HER?! D8 /baaaws forever
Marat's hair is driving me up the wall.... 8|A
and Marat's hair continues to kill me orz
And that's all from me /goes back under her rock until next time
Marat's hair is driving me up the wall.... 8|A
and Marat's hair continues to kill me orz
And that's all from me /goes back under her rock until next time
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Date: 2010-02-23 05:11 am (UTC)I really like the folds on their outfits, Simonne's face, and especially Simonne's hand - I always suck at hands. Very well drawn!
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Date: 2010-02-23 12:14 pm (UTC)8DDD Thank you~ /snugs
Your icon is mesmerizing 8||||
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Date: 2010-02-23 07:23 pm (UTC)In regards to politics, he also wrote "Chains of Slavery" - in English, in regards to an English election, in 1774 - in which he basically says a lot of the same things he says in the French Revolution, including proposals for helping the poor, denouncing royal/aristocrat tyranny, etc. When you start looking at his writing, you start going o__O - he was demanding political clubs before the Jacobins were conceived of, advocating nationalized workshops before Prudhon, and is generally pretty awesome.
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Date: 2010-02-23 08:23 pm (UTC)I really think it's interesting how, despite making overt calls for the sort of extreme legislation that others were executed for later he managed to go out at the top of his political game as Marat the martyr... Very interesting fellow.
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Date: 2010-02-23 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-23 10:12 pm (UTC)Well, he wasn't really planning to go out when he did; he was murdered and I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting that. At the time, actually, between his worsening sickness and his steadily lessening influence on the Convention, he was actually becoming far less important; indeed he was starting to write his memoirs under the assumption that he would have little effect on future politics and would die soon anyway. His assassination was actually the thing that catapulted him out of increasing obsurity into Marat the Martyr (i.e. the worst possible thing to happen to the Gironde).
I will agree that he was an incredibly interesting fellow, though. Anyone who can stare down a hostile entire Convention, then win them over mostly by sheer force of speech and personality, is pretty awesome, even if you agree with absolutely nothing else he says.
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Date: 2010-02-23 10:18 pm (UTC)To perhaps state the obvious, we don't know that for sure; we probably have only a small fraction of Robespierre's correspondence. Which is not to say he necessarily got a response from Franklin, merely that the fact that no response has come down to us doesn't necessarily mean there wasn't one.
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Date: 2010-02-23 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-24 01:44 am (UTC)YES. THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE 8|a
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Date: 2010-02-24 01:57 am (UTC)I always wondered why Corday chose to knife Marat... I mean, he did put out some pretty inflammatory things, but why chose him over some of the more active political figures at the time? Was he just easier to get to and kill, being half dead and in a bathtub and all?
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Date: 2010-02-24 04:26 am (UTC)The current running theory, I believe, is that she honestly believed he could do what he claimed to in his papers - he was the friend of the people, the one who called most readily for the Gironde's death...the Gironde, who hated him particularly, made lots of speeches in the provinces about how evil he was, and Corday listened to them and got it in her head that she could do her country a service by killing him. Basically, she thought he was all but running the country and had no actual conception of where political power in Paris stood.
Personally, I always thought the great irony of his death is that he was easier to get to, because he was one of the very few major revolutionaries who would see people - any people, rich or poor, at any time - if they came to visit, without checking, because of his beliefs in egalitarianism. Simmone stood guard at the door as his wife, of course, but that was about it; Corday played specifically on that, sending him notes saying that "as the friend of the people and protector of the poor, I know you'll let me come in and talk to you!" (I paraphrase, obviously). So I suppose there's that too. ^_^
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