Would You Like To Draw Danton/Robespierre Art? I Am Glad To See It.

Valazé’s daughter recollecting Girondins as she remembered them in her childhood

Vatel, working on his “Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins”, was looking for someone who could evaluate the reliability of portraits of Barbaroux. Madame Letellier-Valazé offered her help. She was then eighty-one years old. In 1793 she was eight. She not only gave her opinion on various portraits but also shared some memories she still possessed.

“My father lived on Rue d’Orléans Saint-Honoré, 19. Every day several colleagues of him gathered in his house. I remember that Guadet, Gensonné and Barbaroux used to come most often. Sometimes came Louvet, as well as Pétion and Gorsas*.

Guadet leaned his head a bit to the shoulder.

Gensonné seemed to be the oldest. He had very thick hair.

Barbaroux was beautiful, excessively beautiful, superb. His colleagues liked to joke about this beauty. He was very lively, very joyful, very good. He loved to play with me, he took me into the living room, where his colleagues met and sat me on his lap if my father wanted to send me away.

He was very dark, with black hair, large eyes also black and very beautiful, very bright. He had well-defined lips, beautiful teeth, fine, delicate features, brown complexion, his beard was so black that if he had just shaved, his cheeks were blue. He was strong.

Madame Roland didn’t come to the meetings, but once she was forced to hid and did so at ours. It had a great effect on the house. I can still hear her walking in the living room and talking, rising her hands in the air.

Madame Pétion came almost every evening with her daughter, who was a charming young person.

Louvet sometimes brought his wife, but she never took part in political discussions.

Madame Roland spent with us only those tree days.

Louvet had a pretty face, an effeminate one, with which he painted himself.”

* – Valazé during his interrogation named Lacaze, Bergoin, Duprat, Buzot, Barbaroux, Sage, Brissot, Gensonné, Guadet, Molleveau, Hardy, Duperret, Salle, Chambon, Lidon and others (Vatel).

Vatel, Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins, Vol. 2, p. 399-402

The thought deserves a better bost, but i'm too melancholy now to prevent myself from scetching it. The description above makes me wonder how much a "found family" conception fits Girondins. A very extended family actualy, in which its members not necessarily know each other well or like each other, but still inevitably connected. Aulard once wrote about Vergniaud-Ducos-Fonfrede relationship "Vergniaud is a family" and it's the best description I've ever found. What makes girondin a girondin is a good question. A good answer is that there were no girondins (sorry Aulard, i'm oversimplifing you here), but I don't like it. And something enchanting exists in that very salons at Valazé's or Pétion's.

have you ever heard of bonbonparte…

Perhaps I have

Bonbon and his weird boyfriend with that fuckass bob

[After the arrest of Danton and Desmoulins] Lucile ran to Madame Danton to suggest that she come with her to go find Robespierre, ask him for an explanation, and recall the feelings of friendship which had attached him to their husbands. Madame Danton refused, saying that she wanted nothing from a man who had showed himself to be the enemy of her husband. (I obtained this particularity from Madame Danton herself, who was then pregnant. She gave birth fifteen days after Danton's death, but her child did not live.)

Histoire de la Révolution française (1850) by Nicolas Villiaumé, volume 4, page 55. This ties in well with the following anecdote that was first reported by Marcellin Matton (who presumably obtained it from Lucile’s mother Annette Duplessis) in his republished edition of Le Vieux Cordelier (1834):

Camille, the day after his arrest, wrote a letter to his wife to console her. One of Camille’s friends took it to Lucile: she read it while sobbing, and as he tried to console her: “It's useless,” she said, “I cry like a woman, because Camille. suffers, because without doubt they let him lack everything; because he does not see us.... But I will have the courage of a man, I will save him.... What to do? which of his judges must I supplicate? Which one should I attack openly? Would you like to take me to Philippeaux?” ”He has also been arrested, no doubt.” ”So the homeland no longer has defenders.... I am going to see Danton....” ”The same decree unites him to your husband.” ”Why have they left me free? Do they think that since I’m only a woman I won’t dare to raise my voice? Have they counted on my silence? I’m going to the Jacobins… I’m going to Robespierre’s house…” Madame Duplessis and Camille's friend restrained her and urged her not to take any inconsiderate steps that could lose her and her husband as well; finally she agreed to remain quiet; but she wanted to write to Robespierre to ask him to save her husband, the letter remained unfinished and was never sent.

happy birthday camille desmoulins 💚💚

ft @labellealliance’s pinching widget

The 24 march 1794 due to the execution of the Hébertists

Rest in peace:

-Charles Philippe Ronsin, 42 years old, commander of the revolutionary army

-Jacques René Hébert, 35 years old, national agent near the Commune of Paris, journalist

-François Nicolas Vincent, 27 years old, Secretary General of the War Department

-Antoine François Momoro, 38 years old, printer-bookseller and administrator of the Paris department

-Frédéric Pierre Ducroquet, 31 years old, wigmaker and barber, and commissioner for requisitions in the Marat section

-Jean Conrard Kock, 38 years old, banker

-Michel Laumur, 63 years old, former infantry colonel

-Jean Claude Bourgeois, 26 years old, Mucius Scœvola section

-Jean Baptiste Mazuel, 28 years old, squadron leader in the revolutionary army

-Jean Baptiste Aucar, 52 years old, employee in the department

-Armand Hubert Leclerc, formerly chief of division in the war office

-Jacob Pereira, 51 years old

-Anacharsis Cloots, 38 years old, former deputy of the National Convention

-François Desfieux, 39 years old

-Antoine Decomble, 29 years old, secretary-clerk of the Rights of Man section

-Jean Antoine Florent Armand, 26 years old

-Pierre Ulric Dubuisson, 48 years old

-Pierre Jean Berthold Proli, 42 years old

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jacques roux and claire lacombe (yuri below)

That bitch Salicetti being FED UP with Bonbonaparte and overjoyed 9 Thermidor ended it

Source : "Chap. 5 : Le capitaine canon", Bonaparte, André Castelot

Salicetti, on whom the Army of Italy now also relies, took umbrage at the protection the Robespierre brothers granted Buonaparte. Perhaps the young general was somewhat clumsy in his dealings with his compatriot? Is it true that, as the Representative told the new Comité de Salut Public, he “barely looked at him from the height of his stature”? In any case, on August 6, Salicetti wrote to his colleague Berthier: “I learned of the death of the new tyrant and his accomplices, and I assure you that my heart expanded with pleasure. You know how despotically Ricord and Augustin Robespierre dominated the Army of Italy. How abuses reigned in finances...”

Buonaparte, “Robespierre's favourite”, was inevitably compromised. “I am convinced,” Salicetti added, “that when I arrive in Nice, I will find Ricord gone and perhaps Buonaparte too. If they are still in Nice, we have decided to have them arrested and sent to Paris immediately. There are strong grounds for suspicion, treason and squandering.” On the same August 6, representatives Albitte and Laporte, whom Salicetti had tracked down in Barcelonnette, called the young Robespierre's campaign plan - suggested by Buonaparte - “liberticide”.

“Buonaparte was their man,” they specify in their letter to the Committee, “their plan-maker whom we had to obey. A letter, anonymous but dated from Genoa, warned us that there was one million on the road to corrupt a general. Stay on your guard, we were told. Salicetti is on his way. He tells us that Buonaparte has gone to Genoa, authorized by Ricord. What was this general planning to do in a foreign country? All our suspicions are fixed on his head...” It is certain - Napoleon would later admit that his favor with the representatives on mission in place before Thermidor was high - that Augustin Robespierre hardly made any decisions concerning the Army of Italy before consulting the young general.

Without waiting for the Committee's orders, the three commissioners, “considering that General Buonaparte has totally lost their trust through the most suspicious conduct, and especially through the trip he recently made to Genoa”, decided as follows: “Brigadier General Buonaparte, commander-in-chief of the artillery of the Army of Italy, is temporarily suspended from duty. He will be arrested by and under the responsibility of the General-in-Chief of the aforementioned army, and taken to the Comité de Salut Public, in Paris, under safe escort. All papers and effects will be sealed...”.

Arthur is so older sister core

is this georges couthon