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@lohinen @major-knighton @frevandrest very late but here are the frenchmen you requested!

Lindet, Fouché, Hérault de Séchelles

thank you so much!!

#they are all great but I can't stop starring at your Hérault #so soft so smug so mischevious #i like that he has some tummy #his expression is perfect #also on first look i was too taken by Hérault to properly look at Fouché but that relaxed Fouché is also great #the pose is lovely very lively the face is great and the hair look very soft am i getting a crush on fouché supreme beinge save me #frev art

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The actor (Gustaf Gründgens) who plays Fouché is hugely compelling. His voice is so insinuating and sly. “Hundert Tage” movie, 1935, on youtube. It’s in German and the English subtitles are useless. I’m watching it anyway.

P.S. The book/movie “Mephisto” was based on Gustaf Grundgens.

#say what again #the portrait flip tho 🤭

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TAG YOURSELF AS A MEMBER OF THE GENEVA SQUAD!

Parts of it are very cringe but parts of it - well, still cringe, but worth sharing I think

#I love the last pic bc as a local let me tell you the mountains are nowhere that close and menacing 🤭

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Working on special little Frev comic, have somehow made Saint-Just much more ✨Shojo manga✨ than I intended.

Here he is giving Barère a really icy stare lol

#hehehe this looks fun!! #can't wait to see it citizen!! #also barrère's face 🤭🤭 #frev comic

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Party Like It's 1816

Throwback to the middle of lock-down where I spent nearly a month on making a presentation about the Geneva Squad for my poor, unsuspecting friends

#forever mad the villa is privately owned and can't be visited #cause it's not far away from my home I could go!! #geneva squad 🤭

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My mum thrifted a big hollow plastic cat head and we have no idea what it used to be, but I've put blankets inside and now it's a cat bed

I've put it somewhere with a vantage point of view on the living room and Absinthe immediately came to sniff it and definitely adopted it 3 days later

Her box now

#citizeness absinthe #I just love how she immediately knew it was for her #we solved the clutter on flat surface classic problem= all flat surface expect the tables are now absinthe's place

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reading about Goujon is such a rewarding experience, just last night i opened a biography of his to a random page and learnt he helped a wounded soldier on a battlefield by giving up his horse for him to ride. he then declined public praise from people who had seen this happen and he himself never talked about it

#underrated babe #<- prev #goujon #give us all the goujon stories ❤️

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"Do you think we're enemies in every universe?"

Us in every universe:

#i love how it looks like they're judging each other's hair #in every universe #<- prev #🤭🤭🤭

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erm what the sigma

#Ooh this is gorgeous #I love saint just's wings!!

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When you get publicly slapped by 4 surrealist poets because you insulted a guy's historical crush

(translation and context under the cut)

Gallantly Defending Robespierre’s Honour

In the conservative daily paper, Le Gaulois, on March 3, 1923, the journalist and man of letters, Wieland Mayr, expressed his pleasure: there would not be, he wrote, a "vile apotheosis" for "that holy scoundrel" Robespierre. On the other hand, Mathiez had the Surrealists with him. Following the article in Le Gaulois, Robert Desnos (1), accompanied by Paul Éluard (2), Max Ernst (3), and André Breton (4), summoned Mayr in a café and publicly slapped him for insulting the memory of "the Incorruptible."

Why did Mayr get Slapped?

In short: studying history in the 1920s was a messy business, especially when it came to the French Revolution….

To explain why Mayr ended up getting slapped, please allow me to briefly dive into the French Revolution's historiography during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Keep in mind, that this is a grossly oversimplified version.

Before 1848, it was pretty standard for French republicans to proudly see themselves as inheritors of Robespierre’s legacy. (If you’ve ever wondered why in Les Misérables, Enjolras’ character is very much channeling Robespierre and Saint Just, here’s your answer!) However, things start to change with the Second Republic.

In 1847, Jules Michelet brought back the negative portrayal of Robespierre as a tyrannical "priest" and leader of a new cult. This narrative helped fuel an increasing dislike for Robespierre, with radicals like Auguste Blanqui arguing that the real revolutionaries were the atheistic Hébertists, not the Robespierrists.

Jump to the Third Republic, and the negative sentiment towards Robespierre was only getting stronger, driven by voices like Hippolyte Taine, who painted Robespierre as a mediocre figure, overwhelmed by his role. This trend was politically motivated, aiming to reshape the Revolution's legacy to align with the Third Republic's secular values. Obviously, Robespierre, the "fanatic pontiff" of the Supreme Being, didn’t quite fit this revised narrative and was made out to be the villain. Alphonse Aulard (a historian willing to stretch the truth to make his point) continued pushing Danton as the face of secular republicanism. Albert Mathiez, one of Aulard’s students, was not having any of it and strongly disagreed with his mentor’s approach.

The general disdain for Robespierre began to shift after World War I. One reason was that people could better appreciate the actions of the Revolutionary Government after experiencing the repression during the war themselves. Albert Mathiez and his colleagues were actively working to change Robespierre's tarnished image. With tensions high, it's no wonder Mayr ended up being publicly slapped by a bunch of poets who were defending the Incorruptible's honour!

Notes

Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was a French poet deeply associated with the Surrealist movement, known for his revolutionary contributions to both poetry and resistance during World War II.

Paul Éluard (1895-1952) was a French poet and one of the founding members of the Surrealist movement, celebrated for his lyrical and passionate writings on love and liberty.

Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, a pioneering figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements known for his inventive use of collage and exploration of the unconscious.

André Breton (1896-1966) was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist, best known as the principal founder and leading theorist of Surrealism, promoting the liberation of the human mind.

Source: Robespierre and the Social Republic by Albert Mathiez

#yes!!! #I've read the original articles while browsing old newspapers!! #i thought it was an obscure niche anecdote but turns out Mathiez knew about it!! #i'm so glad Mathiez knew :D #also dumb me didn't realise they were surrealist poet at first despite studying them in school XD

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#yesss #black cat

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I did this thing where I combined a bunch of portraits of Robespierre and Saint-just (separately of course)

#oooh this is nice #robespierre #saint-just

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Germinal

#omg this slaps #scrolling down hit me hard #but now that I've calmed down and look at it for a while the two composition actually compliment each other #cw death

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how funny would it be if Fouché wins the napoblr sexyman tournament when he is already the titleholder in frevblr?

#this hit me like a high-speed train I had forgotten he won in frevblr

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Walks up to a couple: Soo, which one of you is the Prussian-born monarch with emotional baggage and which is the overly dramatic French philosopher they can't help but keep throwing their money at?

#🤭🤭🤭

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the get me out of here mood

#the shading!!! #the composition!!! #this is so freaking cool #saint just

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#hôtel de la marine #18C decor