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marquisdeglad · 2 months

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Alright, was Marie Atonette a bitch or was that something the French Revolutionaries made up?

Marie Antoinette was an out of touch aristocratic rich girl, who had the bad luck to be queen of France during one of the worst periods of economic inequality the country ever faced. Her biggest crimes were marrying a supremely incompetent and unpopular king, and wearing fancy, expensive dresses at lavish parties when the peasants were being taxed into starvation.

Everything else? The Jacobins and the rest of the revolutionary mob slandered her to justify killing her. They had already decided the king and queen had to die, as they were symbols of the oppressive monarchy the Revolution overthrew, but they needed to make it look good to the population.

You have to remember - the peasantry and lower classes of France were legitimately suffering and oppressed, both economically and legally. But the Jacobins were bloodthirsty maniacs, led by a man who was called "The Incorruptible" because his fanaticism was unwavering.

So, was Marie Antoinette a good person? Who knows. She was incredibly privileged in a time when many had nothing. She was hated by many. She was vilified by the propaganda machine of one of the most fanatically violent revolutionary parties in human history. She was demonstrably out of touch. She was obviously in over her head.

Her last words were to apologize to the the executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot as she climbed into the guillotine.

#asked and answered #Marie Antoinette #the french revolution #dualcoindiety #meaningless ramblings of the marquis

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dear-ao3 · 1 year

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#not a tag #from saph #the french revolution #katya is going to hate this

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ashildr-arts · 8 months

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#saint just #the french revolution #french revolution #frev #french history #18th century #traditional art #ink #inkdrawing #drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #my art

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smak-annihilation · 3 months

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Sir Pentious and the egg boiz in the style of that one french revolution painting from the history textbook with the boobs, he is the type of guy to carry an all black flag to battle due to it being the opposite of surrender

liberty leading the people

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faustandfurious · 2 years

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I think the French revolutionaries were really onto something with «Citizen» as a form of address. Infinitely preferable to «Mr» and «Mrs», at least

#the french revolution #feanor speaks

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costumeloverz71 · 2 months

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Marie Antoinette (Jane Seymour) White ballgown w/blue & pink trim.. The French Revolution (1989). Costume by Catherine Leterrier

#marie antoinette #jane seymour #the french revolution #catherine leterrier

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amicus-noctis · 4 months

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“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting: "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Jacques-Louis David

Just watched the new Napoleon film. It was so beautiful how much Napoleon loved Josephine.

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m3ntal-hiatus · 5 months

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JJK MANGA SPOILERS!

the way kenjaku got taken out french rev style is so funny to me. fully deserved. geto and gojo are laughing their asses off in hell

#yuuta jumped him so bad bro 😭#he was distracted for exactly 0.5 seconds and he was gone #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #the french revolution #satosugu #gojo satoru #geto suguru #kenjaku #yuuta #yuuta okkotsu #yuuta finally pulled in and did something

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artist-issues · 3 months

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Finished A Tale of Two Cities

Go read it and then talk to me about it

#a tale of two cities #classics #I know I'm late #beautiful #Sydney carton #Charles darnay #the French Revolution #Charles dickens #good books #literature #book recommendations

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ashintheairlikesnow · 11 months

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Robespierre was such a nasty little rabid creature, wasn't he?

#ash rambles #history #french history #they found Marie Antoinette's final letter to her loved ones #under his bed after he died #he kept it #just for funsies!#the shit #the absolute shit #the french revolution #french revolution #reign of terror

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vmpirevnom · 10 months

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Adrienne made them wear this

#the french revolution #la revolution francaise #lrf #frev #french revolution #robespierre #marquis de lafayette #lafayette #maximilien robespierre #meme #crack

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somethingsketch-y · 5 months

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Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps 🇫🇷 🐴 ❄️

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ruralreligion · 5 months

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As we enter farther into late stage capitalism we bare witness to a phenomenon which is quite unlike the revolutionary fall of other economic systems of the past (like feudalism/monarchies in the french rev (as symbolism for the implementation of capitalism as the new global system)). Not completely unlike aristocrats who, historically, were openly and publicly drowning in luxury and lavish. For the uber-wealthy in the west, relatability seems to be key to their personas. They still sit in their metaphorical (or not) castle on the hill, yet they do so by appealing to the working class with pleas of ‘im just like u’ or ‘this pandemic has been hard for all of us’. Seemingly to gain solidarity or even sympathy from the working class. However, with class consciousness rising almost as much as grocery prices, i don’t believe more apology videos in sweatpants and messy buns will save the bourgeoisies’ heads in the next Terror. The more the people see cosplays of working at walmart, the less faint it seems the memory of the women marching on versailles becomes. ‘Let them eat cake’ comes in many forms people!!!

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ashildr-arts · 1 year

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#robespierre #the french revolution #frev #french revolution #frev art #french history #traditional art #watercolor #drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #my art

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deceptigoons-attack · 3 months

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Décret ordonnant la levée de 300 000 hommes, 24 février 1793

"This special military levy was the forerunner of the famous “levy en masse.” It was the preliminary step in the development of a scheme of national conscription which was to be perfected in the later days of the Revolution and under Bonaparte, and which was to be adopted subsequently by all major European states as the basis of their military organization. For the most part the levy was successful, although it occasioned rebellious opposition on the part of many Catholic peasants."

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' All French citizens from the age of eighteen to fully forty years, unmarried or widowers without children, are in a state of permanent requisition until the date of completion of the effective recruiting of the newly levied 300,000 men hereinafter decreed.

The Executive Council and the generals of the armies of the Republic may requisition the said citizens; the generals shall render account to the Executive Council, and the Executive Council to the Convention, of the number of those who have been requisitioned, and of the departments on which the various requisitions have been made.'

(John Hall Stewart. A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution. New York, Macmillian, 1951.)

#French Revolution #The French Revolution #La Révolution française #Frev #The National Convention #La Convention nationale #Bonaparte #Napoleon Bonaparte #(mentioned)#Back at it again with the boring history posting #Military History #History #French History

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faustandfurious · 1 year

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Lucile Desmoulins would have fit right in on tumblr dot com

#the french revolution

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