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CAMILLE DESMOULINS IS 250 TODAY!

I don't actually have anything to commemorate the event, sadly. However I would like to encourage you to spare a thought (and perhaps a few words, if you feel so inspired) for this man who slipped into history - and more than a few peoples' hearts in the past 250 years - against the odds. I could never express how grateful I am for it.

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[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400E5DB1539E733A25754C0A9659C946897D6CF

As for Robespierre's statue, see the UK-US sources, always so correct as for historical details, hahaha (Capt.Duplay??????? WTF)

There is a beautiful Robespierre Embankment in Saint Petersbourg, though.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Captain Duplay? Oh, that's hilarious!

There is a beautiful Robespierre Embankment in Saint Petersbourg, though.
Does it have a statue?

[maelipstick.livejournal.com]

The statue will stand not far from the house where Robespierre made love to the daughter of Capt. Duplay

This would be another example of a phrases connotations changing over time. ;)

I shall leave now and stop lowering the tone.

[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

There was a statue to Robespierre erected in Moscow in the very first years of the Russian Revolution, but it was vandalized and moreover, as the other statues erected fast, it was a made of a low-quality material and had to be removed for being in a bad shape.