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misatheredpanda.livejournal.com

Hello. Some little things - which I suppose are easier to take for granted...

First: I somehow feel guilty asking this, since it's not very useful either way (yes, let me deprecate myself a moment more) - else I might have brought it up earlier as it's been bothering me vaguely for years - but since I'd like to finally strike it off my 'wtf' list, I'm just going to put it out there: I recall reading on this site (incidentally, is it gone?) that Desmoulins was a "rumored" bisexual. Since then I have found this addressed in all of one place: Mantel's novel. Somehow, a work of fiction and the internet just don't do it for me, so I was wondering if anyone here knows of any reference to Camille's sexuality coming from a legit source? Or anything that isn't fictional outright, at least? Or is it just something the author of that site might have absorbed from fiction? Or both?!

Second: Okay, maybe this is just silly. But can anyone tell me more about the lock of Robespierre's hair at the Musée Carnavalet? ...and why it's white?

By the way, I'd like to suggest that since this community has separate tags under "desmoulins" and "camille desmoulins" that they be merged together. (Of course I am stupid about such things.)

misatheredpanda.livejournal.com

Hello! I have a question today. Does anyone know where, within the Panthéon, Marat's tomb was? Are there any pictures or references that give some idea of it? I went there this morning, and between the fits of revolutionary ecstasy and all of that, curiosity struck me suddenly. I finally got myself to ask some people who worked there (...well, I'm very shy) and no one knew. (It also seemed they couldn't imagine why I'd want to know, but that's to be expected, I'm sure.) Thank you in advance~

victoriavandal.livejournal.com

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows what's currently on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré, Duplay house as was? I've avoided going for years because of the fur shop - now there seems to be a tea shop/cafe when I google it. Either way, I was under the impression there wasn't much of the original building left (there seems to be a dispute about whether the whole thing was rebuilt when the extra floors were added in the 19thc, and the ground floor wall in the courtyard was taken out and made into a glass-fronted bar in the 1950's), but there's a right-wing website chatroom boasting of disrupting the 28th July commemorations in the courtyard last year (if they want a monarch, they can have ours!).
So, does any of it still exist, has it been modernised inside beyond recognition, does the courtyard survive, is it accessible to the public, and is the door that used to open onto the alternative staircase (and that had a preservation order put on it in the 1950's) still there?

pevampire.livejournal.com

I know this is really trivial (and somehow stupid...) question but ever since I started studying European history
(at school) I've always wondered...especially for 18th century......

aren't those three piece suits er.....you know......hot? for summer?
Did they wear the same shirt+waistcoat+frock coat in summers??? or were there some kind of summer suits...?
Those clothes seem really er....tight

Most of the Asian costumes, with their billowing sleeves, aren't THAT hot........but.........

livviebway.livejournal.com

I thought I would draw upon our combined knowledge of the French Revolution to answer a question I can't quite figure out. How many people died during the Terror? Or perhaps that's too vague a question. I've seen multiple numbers cited on this. There is the constant 40,000 one, which is usually cited by sensationalist accounts of the Revolution. I looked through some book that I unfortunately can't recall the name of that was concerned with adding up how many people were executed during the Terror and I remember the author got a number in the 16,000s. I've seen 20,000-25,000 sometimes too. Sources seem to vary wildly.

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lisotchka.livejournal.com

Dear all,
In France exists a title : "Peintre de la Marine (du Roi during the Ancien Régime)"= painter to the Royal Navy.

Does it exist in UK or something similar?

toi-marguerite.livejournal.com

Hello everyone!

Two things once again:
1. Would anyone be interested in beta- reading a Scarlet Pimpernel fanfic? I've always been irritated with the characterization of Robespierre in said series of novels, and am attempting to portray a more historically accurate one.
2. Is it true that Rosseau personally tutored Robespierre? According to someone on

historical_love, he did, but I've never read about it. I'd think that it'd be something important enough in Robespierre's life to be included in all the things I've read on him.... Admittedly, I haven't read as much as I would like, nor have I read as much as everyone in this community, but I'd think that said information would pop up in at least one article or something. Have I just not read enough?

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Lost: Marat :(

What's on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré at the moment?

Some trivial question 0_0

That tricky death toll statistic

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