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wat do u think of couthon x Maxime x saint just.......
Have u ever drawn couthon btw he's such a cutie I love him
i don’t really ship max with anyone but i LOVEE the triumvirate and i love couthon too. couthon x sj is very underrated.
sorry Lafayette, but catching Marat is too ambiguous a task, even for you
i humbly beg thee on my hands knees feet tippy toes finger tips to draw Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
they hated him cause he got play 💔
how long have you studied art? your style is so pleasing to the eye & I love to stumble upon your works here in frevblr 💐💗
omg SORRY for the late response this is so sweet 😓😓😓😭 i go to art school!! so i’ve been studying for the better part of a decade. also i love drawing clothes, it’s my favorite so thank you so so much also for the kind words on your other post ❤️❤️
feel free to hit up my asks if u have any frev-related rarepairs / underrated revolutionaries you’d like to talk about or see drawn…i want to interact with you guys more!
i miss bonbonparte so bad, sometimes i scroll through your art of them just to feel something. bless you pIrIe
THANK YOU 🙏🙏 bonbonaparte is love bonbonaparte is life
Later French Cavalry (Hussar) Uniforms
"The hussars never halt, they ride their horses at full speed, breaking through everything that's in front of them".
François Paulin Dalerac
A bit of a return to form.
From "Napoleonic Uniforms Volume I"
three very opinionated guys. ugh I have drawn our mother Marat so much that i can't even draw twinks these days
do yuo see. do you see t th visioj
jacques roux and claire lacombe (yuri below)
happy birthday my underrated king
L.P. Durasov's illustrations from A.P. Levandovsky's book "The triumvirs of the Revolution" (1980).
fouché and collot perchance
GOD BLESS YOU ANON they somehow manage to be even worse when together <3
lol me and @anotherhumaninthisworld were discussing Pétion's 'Golden Retriever' personality, and I just ttly felt a need to draw this all day today.
Couthon
How often do you ask yourself “What Couthon thought about it?” when you read Robespierre’s and Saint-Just’s opinions about something?
It seems to me (at least this evening) that Thermidorian propaganda was most cruel, albeit unintentionally, to Couthon.
Both Robespierre and Saint-Just were demonized, one as a bloody dictator, another as an “Archangel of Terror”. But these images, though far from reality, were magnetizing. Thermidorian propaganda turned people into a kind of myths characters, into symbols. And they are attrecting (not attective), they make you want to learn more.
What French Revolution movies tend to depict? The Reign of Terror. What people far from the Revolution remember the best? Bastille and the Terror – and so they know Robespierre as a dictator, and maybe they know about Saint-Just, his supporter.
And now we have two points:
Couthon didn’t get a dark legend that could attract. His function was to be the third in Triumvirate, while the ones who were usually named, acted in person and really bothered and offended thermidorians were Robespierre and Saint-Just. That deprives Couthon of his identity, so when he is finally named it’s like: Couthon in Lyon acts the way triumvirs thought was right; Couthon in Prairial suggested the Robespierre’s law.
Couthon was a deputy of Legislative Assembly, but who cares? Legislative Assembly is an approaching of the war, is the beginning of the ‘suspects’ politics, is a march to the republic, is Girondins rise and shine.
On 5th October 1791 Couthon gave a stunning speech about why the pomp around the executive should be reduced and the king should be addressed only by “the king of French” (the decree was enacted the same meeting, repealed the next day). Moniteur
On 7th October 1791 Couthon gave a speech criticizing the priests who didn’t take a civil oath. It was the first speech of that type given in the Legislative Assembly. Moniteur And then disappears from history books until he meets Dumouriez and then until the National Convention. I can’t believe he ceased acting. But I have no time to search for his name in every issue of the Assembly period.
I don’t say no one studies him. My point is different.
When I searched for “Couthon” on Internet Archive, I got this:
With “Couthon” in a title:
On Gallica with “Couthon” in a title:
And this:
How is he usually depicted in movies? Sitting here and there in his wheelchair.
What will someone without special interest in him mostly remember about him?
Lyon mission
Prairial law
A dog
Paralytic
Member of CPS, Triumvirate
A friend of Dumouriez before his treason
Not much, and not much politics.
And that is my point: Thermidorian propaganda put a “Nothing interesting here” sign on him.
That big one, that what made me seriously think about Couthon was a biography of Vergniaud, where he acted by his own.
If anyone knows a good biography of Couthon, please, share it.
fraternité is magic!!
Sooo here is frev x mlp 😅 Im not that good at drawing but this is just for fun. Here we have Max, Saint Just, Danton and Camille! For some reason both SJ and Camille are not at the same height as the other two.. i didn't really know which cutie mark to give Danton and Sj so it's kinda random.
okay this is kind of hilarious danton ending the meeting with robespierre like "gargle my entire dick and balls you little twerp" and then he has to go home to camille and be like kitten. daddy has been sentenced to death
i can confirm, it is.
being a frev fan on tumblr who doesn't gaf about saintspierre must be hell
Oh my goodness frev requests *runs
oh hrrrrm how about empire era fouche tries to woo old Charlotte again
I actually would love to do more of this!
Tysm for the request :))
Art dump! Sorry for the hiatus, but I’ve been pretty busy lately 😭. This is all random stuff from November/December btw.
Also, here's Saint-Just! I might make more frev art, but I want to read more about it, so probably in the distant future lol.
Also, happy new years everyone!! 🎉🎉
The Triumvirate(s)
Happy New Year!!!
Havent been very active here bc i was preparing my application for new school.
screaming in language that no one understand/of the rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding hands – Marat / Sade
happy birthday couthon! 🎉
Croc likes to take advantage of their height difference hehe
Daz is kinda shy about it.
Cute smooch
Augustin Robespierre being his brother’s number 1 fan compilation
…I tremble, my friend, when I think of the dangers that surround you. I implore you, give us your news, report to the public your motion and the scandalous scene you suffered at the hands of an enemy of the people; your virtues, your patriotism must triumph. But you have to convince the ignorant for success to be certain. Farewell, I embrace you with tears in my eyes. Augustin to Maximilien in an undated letter, 1790
…Our simple villagers are horribly gullible; in vain do they know what you have done for them. They forget everything to feast on the misfortune of being crushed by taxes because of you. Augustin to Maximilien in an undated letter, middle of June 1790
I am angry, dear brother, that you are so weak when it comes to your interests. Why hesitate to publish the response to Beaumez? Why consult again, when Charles Lameth has signed and approved this answer? This is an insult you are doing to your greatest friend. So I alert you that I will publish this answer tomorrow. Augustin to Maximilien, June 6 1790
…Your motion for the marriage of priests makes you get regarded as impious by all our great Artesian philosophers. It is well within my principles, but few people are at the same level! You would lose the esteem of the peasants if you renewed this motion. This weapon is used to harm you; people only talk about your irreligion, etc. Perhaps it would be a good idea to stop supporting it. I don't even believe that the National Assembly is mature enough to adopt it. Tell me if I will please you by going to Paris. Augustin to Maximilien, undated 1790
…I cannot hide my fears from you, dear brother, you will seal the cause of the people with your blood, perhaps these people will even be unfortunate enough to strike you, but I swear to avenge your death and to deserve it like you. You will be surprised to learn how far the villainy of your enemies extends. They went to the houses of the people I saw, telling them that they were dishonoring themselves by welcoming me into their homes. I confess to you that this monstrous behavior made my blood boil, that it was prudent for these villains not to appear before me. […] I would like to go to Paris for July 14; I have not yet had a single patriotic enjoyment in Arras. I have to compensate myself. Give me, I beg you, the means to go there, it will be enough to please you. Augustin to Maximilien, undated June 1790
Patriot Dupleix [sic], I learned indirectly that my brother is indisposed; I am worried; let me know about his situation as soon as possible. Send me also the cartridge that I asked my brother's friend to look for in his papers. Tell my brother that my sister is convalescing, and that I will send back Mme Witty's book in a few days. Don't waste a moment, send answers right away. My worry is at its peak. Nothing prevents me from flying to Paris. Also send me some copies of the speech on the war that your friend gave and the observations of Pethion [sic] and Robespierre. I embrace you and your family. Augustin to Maurice Duplay, March 19 1792
It’s surely not curiosity that draws in such a big number of members today, it’s the intimate sentiment of dangers against liberty that assemble them here. I am somewhat ashamed to be speaking before you, because the brother of Robespierre should be calumniated, and he is not. […] Citizens, I had a big fear, it seemed to me like assassins were coming to stab my brother. I heard men say that he would perish by their hands. Another one, whom I asked if he wanted to be the executioner of my brother, responded: ”He has been the executioner of a lot of others.” After this, it is possible to believe innocence will never be victorious! […] I don’t want to leave this rostrum before making an observation on Marat: Marat can’t be guilty, because he is persecuted by the same enemies that persecute Robespierre. Augustin at the jacobins, October 29 1792
…I have just been appointed commissary to the army of Italy, the mission is difficult; I accepted it for the good of my country, I am convinced that I will serve it usefully if only by destroying the slanders with which my name has been blackened. Augustin to Antoine Buissart, July 20 1793
From this moment (around June 10 1794) Robespierre and his friends acted with hostility against us, and especially against me (Barère). One day they even sent Robespierre the younger to me, whom they had recalled from the Basses Alpes. This lunatic entered the committee under pretext of giving an account of his mission to Nice; but instead of fulfilling this duty, he addressed me in a furious tone ”You have maltreated my brother. We missed you on the 31st of May 1793, we shall not miss you on the 31st of May 1794.” He left still threatening us. Memoirs of Barère (1896) volume 2, page 169.
[Robespierre the younger] complains that the lowest flatteries are used to create division between patriots: they went so far as to tell him that he was better than his brother: “But in vain,” he cries, ”would anyone want to separate me from him: as long as he is the proclaimer of morality and the terror of scoundrels, I aspire to no other glory than to share the same tomb as him!” Augustin at the jacobins on July 11 1794, recorded in number 32 (July 18) of Mercure français.
Robespierre the younger: I am as guilty as my brother: I share his virtues; I want to share his fate. I demand an act of accusation against me also. Augustin at the Convention on July 26 1794, as reported in number 311 (July 29) of Le Moniteur Universel
…Proceeding to learning of the causes of the accident, the patient told us his name was [Augustin] Robespierre; that he voluntarily threw himself from one of the windows of Hôtel de Ville, to escape from the hands of the conspirators, because, having been put under a decree of accusation, he believed his death inevitable; that he never stopped doing his duty well at the Convention, like his brother; that no one can reproach him for anything; that he regards Panis as a conspirator, because he once came over to him and declared that Collot d’Herbois does not desire the good of his country in order to deceive him; Carnot appears to him to be one of the conspirators, who wants to surrender his country... Medical report on Augustin, written on July 28 1794, two o’clock in the morning, at the civil committee of the city hall section
and now they’re bffs
Sigh… they’re in my mind again.
Look at it. The pathetic thing. @labrador44
My apple pen tip split in half so I had to hold it at a specific angle and with a certain amount of force or it wouldn’t draw and I was not going to try to do anymore than this with that broken ass pencil 😭