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I'll make a timeline for Couthon's life
Hell, I might as well compile his life into a non-Thermidorian biography
Work in progress for timeline, biography might be added too:
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good old marat, by your side we’ll stand and fall
you’re the only one that we can trust at all
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i found this super interesting paper in French about the Law of 22 Prairial, summed up by the author Anne Jourdan like this:
The 22 Prairial law has a very bad reputation. But do we know it well? I am not sure. That is why I decided to study its reception, its implementation and its consequences. It allowed me to discover that historians are forgetting an important fact: that the repression and coercion of 1794 did not mean that injustice and terror were on the agenda. Conversely, there were institutional devices which made it possible to liberate patriots in custody. Studying this law and its implementation also enables to discover the networks for or against Robespierre and to investigate the part they were playing during the so-called Terror.
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Some of you just wanna be unserious and silly and draw cutesy art about the Frev. Look, I get it.
But also you need to wake up and realize we're already at stage 1 of Applied Fascism: Getting Rid of the Most Undesirable. A (real) genocide has already started. It's spreading everywhere in the so-called "developed world".
Trans people are the "easiest" to target among the LGBTQ+ the same way refugees ("migrants") are among BIPOC and immigrants.
Our governments are stealthily (not that much) allowing the purge of the most undesirable under "rational" criteria. They won't go against racial minorities head first. They'll get rid of those even racial minorities can agree are "icky". They too can be trans, disabled or mentally ill. And everyone grows old.
In Canada, euthanasia for the disabled, mentally ill and the elderly is increasingly popular and easier to get. Other countries are disintegrating their social and health care support systems in order to facilitate this exactly. Because then euthanasia seems like a "mercy". But the right to die isn't much of a choice when we're not allowed the right to live.
It's only going to get worse with pandemics and climate change. More people will be displaced, more people will get sick, more people will see a mercy killing as the preferable alternative.
There's a reason we seemingly "prefer" the Robespierristes, the Jacobins, the Montagnards, the Babouvistes etc. around "here" (y'know, the social media with the gay leftists?). They fought for our right to exist, survive, live and thrive. Moreover: many of them were us. Couthon and David were physically disabled, and literally called monsters because of this more than because of their policies. Prieur-Duvernois had a limp leg. Simon Duolay was an amputee. We can suspect that many of them would not classify within "neurotypical" or "straight", regardless of whether these categories existed or not.
The members of the "Great" Committee of Public Safety (the "twelve who ruled") were already by their society's standard classified as undesirable, worthless upstarts who claimed power they had no "natural right" to. Collot was an actor, Saint-André was protestant: they were outcast in Ancien Régime society. Carnot and Prieur's military and scientific careers were blocked by old privileges. Couthon should have accepted to "privately retire and disappear from public life" as "good cripples do". Robespierre was almost born illegitimate and carried the stain of it, and that of his father abandoning him and his siblings, making them orphans. Saint-Just was barely recognized as an adult. Billaud had failed at most of his jobs - lawyer, playwright, teacher - and it wasn't entirely only his fault either. I could go on but you get the point. Each have been described as "mediocre" and "jealous" regardless of historical truth. Billaud's actual envy and frustration towards Robespierre's popularity isn't what they care about. It's their "mediocrity" and "jealousy" in regard to the "naturally dominant" classes, the nobility, the aristocracy - "the power of the best". Aristo means "best" - not because of their actual qualities, but best because of their birth which "naturally" should imbue them with the best qualities. The best bred - and here we see the origins of eugenics.
If you can't see how this is all connected, if you just wanna hang around the "history fandom" for "fun", don't get surprised if you get people to confront you about this. And stop crying about people not being "gentle enough". Some of us are being targeted for extermination. Being a minor isn't an excuse either. The world you're about to inherit is on the cusp of several collapses. You're either being willfully blind about this or too privileged to get it.
Other fandom exist. Including historical ones without the highest of political stakes that matter right now. If you can't stand the heat in the fandom at the forefront of the battle for modernity, democracy and humanity, just leave. No one is telling you to stay. No one is "bullying" you off. No one is telling you to die either. We want you to understand, and some of us - not just me btw - are at the end of our patience. Defending the French Revolution - and yes it needs to be defended - is also a fight for our present and future - and it's not looking great so far.
#i learnt about couthon a few months after i lost the ability to walk unsupported#life was shit i thought id never get anywhere#then i read about couthon and the similarities hit me#i am a fucking revolutionary#and my existence is revolution#ive been so outspoken about disabilities and got so much hate#my own family acted like i was a zoo animal#at some point i made a presentation in ecology lecture about the pipeline from 'beauty and ugliness'#to eugenics. straightup eugenics#with slow progressing questions i asked to the class and they agreed and agreed#and some openly admitted they dont want disabled people to exist in the future#and i sat there in front of the whiteboard with my cane in my hand#facing the people and locking eyes with them one by one#i am not just me#i am every disabled revolutionary#i am marat with hot water bags and all kinds of painkiller creams on me as i type up a research in the bed#i am couthon while i limp and hold onto the walls to make it to the class#i am every disabled person at the same time and i have anger. i have fury.#sure i sometimes want to die but if theres something i want more; thats to live#this world hates me. my family hates me. my partner tells me to heal. people dont give up their seats as i sit on the floor in the metro#im not strong enough for this#but i can only think of Couthon at night and it keeps me going#frev#french revolution#marat#couthon
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Le subterfuge de Chérubin
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*Drops frev sketches* Yes i reused Maxims sketch (we recycle in this house)
Im still alive. School finals just consumed my life again so this is the best i can do for now
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Joyeux 14 juillet ! Look who I found…..
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Hello,
I am sorry if this is a repeated question, are there any portraits or drawings of Robespierre or Couthon with their natural hair instead of a wig?
Thank you!
For Robespierre we have the following painting, made just a month before his death:
I had less luck with Couthon. We have the following three sketches, however, they would not appear to have been made from life. The one on the right was painted by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (1818-1875), the one in the middle by Yan’ Dargent (1824-1899) and the one on the left by Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet (1804-1860).
We do however have this monstrosity which according to the description is a sketch of Couthon made by André Dutertre (1753-1842):
We also have this sketch, which is supposed to depict Couthon on his way to the guillotine. The artist behind it is Dominique Vivant (1725-1847) who also drew the sketch of Couthon holding a dog.
