Maximilien Robespierre in a 1789 letter to his friend Antoine Buissart (via crookedsin)
Can we just take a moment and reflect on how weird Mirabeau was?
The French Revolution at the Carnavalet, pt. 2: famous figures from the revolution.
1. Just Voltaire curbstomping a priest. NBD. 2. Voltaire and the priest from another angle. 3. A model of the Bastille…carved from a block that used to be part of the Bastille. 4. Some familiar faces overlooking the above (i.e. Desmoulins, Marat, Robespierre, Danton). 5. Robespierre’s membership card to the Cordelier’s Club. 6. Robespierre’s hair. 7. Saint-Just’s pistol (with Desmoulin’s inkwell to the left). 8. A bust of Napoleon as First Council.
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Jacques-Louis David, Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas, 165 × 128 cm (65 × 50 in).
Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.
It took me a long time to notice the knife in the bottom corner of the picture because a lot of versions cut it out.
I love Marat’s hands in this picture.
David was a powerful artist.
Le Panthéon révolutionnaire.
Les montagnards - républicains de 1793
Gravure des frères Casse.
1 - Danton; 2 - Marat; 3 - Desmoulins; 4 - général Hanriot; 5- Collot d’Herbois; 6 - Hébert; 7 - Couthon; 8 - Saint-Just; 9 - Fouquier-Thinville; 10 - Robespierre; 11 - Merlin de Thionville; 12 - Pétion; 13 - Carrier; 14 - David; 15 - Lepelletier; 16 - Lebon; 17 - Legendre; 18 - Billaud-Varenne; 19 - Augustin Robespierre; 20 - Chénier; 21 - Vadier.
You may find this difficult to believe but people follow the French Revolution tag to read about the French Revolution, not how ill-prepared you are for an exam.
(Quelle: adam-space)
Anonym fragte: what does kant mean?
Immanuel Kant was a 19th century philosopher!
‘A year later, Dussault, passing over the Place de la Révolution, thought long of all the mournful things that this area of Paris had seen. He then remembered that it was April 5: it was the date of the anniversary of the death of Desmoulins. Unconsciously, Dussault regarded on the terrace of the Orangerie, on the left, beside the staircase, a bunch of lilacs he had noticed preceding year, the very day he had seen the head of Camille fall.
“Tiens,” Dussault said, “spring is late, the lilac was in bloom when Camille died.”
And every year, on April 5, Dussault went to see curiously, almost superstitiously, this bunch of lilacs, which he called the lilacs of Camille.’ - from the introduction to Oeuvres de Camille Desmoulins, Jules Claretie
