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ofgraveconcern · 2 years

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13th July 1793, murder of French political theorist, physician and journalist Jean-Paul Marat. A radical voice during the early years of the French Revolution, Marat championed the voice of the poor through his periodical ‘L'Ami du peuple’ (Friend of the People), aligning himself with the radical Jacobins. Upon the ascension of the Jacobins to power this same year, they sought to eradicate their moderate rivals known as the Girondins. One Girondin sympathiser and royalist named Charlotte Corday, one this day gained access to Marat’s house, while he was taking a medicinal bath to aid the debilitating skin condition he suffered from. After claiming that she had vital information on a group of escaped Girondins, she withdrew a five-inch kitchen knife out from her corset, and brought it down hard into Marat's chest. For the murder Charlotte Corday was guillotened four days later, claiming "I killed one man to save 100,000." Marat was later immortalised the same year by the French painter Jacques-Louis David in his painting, ‘The Death of Marat’. 14th July 1789, pre revolutionary tensions in Paris culminate at the site of the Mediaeval prison known as the Bastille. Although only housing seven prisoners on this day, the fortress was seen as representing the pinnacle of monarchical abuse of power. With rioting already occurring across Paris, hostilities began at the Bastille by impassioned speeches by French journalist and revolutionary Camille Desmoulins, and one of the Bastille’s own residents, the Marquis De Sade, who was removed at the beginning of the month, for shouting from the window of his cell, that the prison authorities planned to massacre the inmates, (continued in the comments). #gothichorrorart #romanticismart #romanticism #gothichorror #gothicacademia #frenchrevolution #bastille #bastilleday #bastilleday🇫🇷 #guillotine #gothicillustration #darkacademiaaesthetic #frenchhistory #tarotart #gothicprint #gothicprints #darkromance #darkromantic #gothicliterature #darkarts #darkillustration #tarothistory #darkartwork #darkartandcraft #darkaesthetic #darkartistssubmission #headlessportrait #18thcenturyhistory #19thcenturyhistory #gothichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf_pVaROUHe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ofgraveconcern · 4 years

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‘Widow Capet’ (The answer to this week’s historical riddle). Images shown are original and are available for sale on the website. See link in bio. The Tarot Cards are from the Ofgrave Concern Industrial Sublime Tarot. An historically inspired original Tarot Deck. Also shown are Headless Portraits inspired by actual historical portraits, and the juxtaposition of ideals and brutality seen during the period of the reign of terror. 16th October 1793, previous Queen of France prior to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, then called ‘Widow Capet’, is executed by guillotine. Convicted of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal, she is executed at the Place de la Révolution, following the execution of her husband King of France Louis XVI, which took place on the 21st January 1793. Labelled as ‘Madame Deficit’, for her extravagant lifestyle, and lack of understanding of the economic problems facing France prior to the Revolution; her reputation was further tarnished during the "Diamond Necklace Affair", in which she was falsely accused of defrauding the crown jewels and the jewelers in order to purchase a very expensive necklace. The affair also involved the Italian adventurer, magician, alchemist, occultist and free mason Giuseppe Balsamo, who self styled himself Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. Marie Antionette also is falsy associated with the story in which she misunderstood the cries of the French poor for bread, as being cries of dissatisfaction for eating bread, in which she replied. ‘Let them eat cake’. This account actually derives from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘confessions’, and was published in 1782, and is not based upon Marie Antionette. Continued in the comments #frenchrevolution #guillotine #marieantoinette #macabreart #macabre #macabreartist #macabreartwork #strangehistory #weirdhistory #placedelarevolution #diamondnecklace #occultism #alchemy #cagliostro #marquisdelafayette #executed #portraits #headlessportraits #dark #darkhistory #history #interesting #historynerd #historical #histology #tarot #tarotart #tarotartist #tarothistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CGfTbi_AFsd/?igshid=1eca0x8b3adhs

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