I Hate How They Depict Saint-just In Propoganda, Since It's Inaccurate, But I Also Love It At The Same

ANOTHER SIX VOTES FOR BENITEZ

i've been reading eugene newton curtis's saint-just, colleague of robespierre & he provides a quote from a letter from le bas & saint-just to robespierre:

Saint-Just added this postscript: Too many laws are made, too few examples: you punish only striking crimes, hypocritical crimes are unpunished. Punish a slight abuse in every party; that is the way to frighten evil persons and to make them see that the government has its eye on everything. Hardly does one turn his back when aristocracy becomes the fashion of the day and does harm under the color of liberty. Engage the Committee to give much prominence to the punish- ment of all faults in the government. You will not have done so for a month before you will have cleared up this labyrinth in which counter-revolution and revolution march pell-mell. Direct the society's attention, my friend [i.e., the Jacobins], to strong maxims of public welfare; let it occupy itself with the great measures needed to govern a free state. I invite you to take measures to find out whether all the factories and workshops of France are active and to favor them, for in a year our troops would be without clothing; the manufacturers are not patriotic, they do not want to work, they must be forced to and no useful establishment must be allowed to fail. We will do our best here. I embrace you and our common friends.

and then describes how saint-just talks to him in such a way that i can't help but think... why would you say that...

In this letter, Saint-Just's strong, dominating character stands out in sharp contrast to the chatty, amiable Le Bas. He talks to Robespierre as though he were the master. There was more in this than youthful bravado, for Saint-Just had wit and experience enough to realize that no one could reach the guillotine by any quicker road than by incurring Robespierre's hatred. That statesman was too serious to smile indulgently at the pertness of a handsome boy, too egotistical to listen patiently to advice from an inferior, hardly from an equal. It is clear that he was used to listening to it from Saint-Just, almost clear that he was used to taking it.

saint-just's strong, dominating character... talks to robespierre as though he were the master... almost clear that he was used to taking it... like that sure is some loaded language eugene

The doctor of contemporary history Antoine Resche had an excellent sentence on his biography of Maximilien Robespierre "if Robespierre had important words to defend a certain social policy, he had also repressed those who wanted a more radical one" . An example : one of the reasons why the maximum was adopted in September 1793 is because of the pressure of a large number of Sans Culottes who were even more to the left than him (more precisely when the Sans Culottes invade the assembly again) . He was not necessarily for the maximum but understood that he had to reconcile himself with the ultra revolutionaries who demanded it

P.S: This is not gratuitous Robespierre bashing just to explain one of his flaws outside of the black legend.

Source: Antoine Resche

I found several stills from the movie Danton (1932), which I couldn't find anyone who had seen. Although the photos may make us laugh, here are a few that are relatively charming.

Gabrielle (she looks nice, but I can't judge her based on that alone, played by Andrée Ducret) and Georges(Jacques Grétillat):

and Camille (André Fouché):

I've seen some magazine articles from the time about the movie, and to be honest, it doesn't look all that interesting. Except that it is one of the few movies in which Gabrielle appears and I am studying French literature of the early 20th century, it might not be worth seeing. Did the actor who played Danton caricature him?

By the way, Stam & Raengo have stated in A Companion to Literature and Film that the movie may be partially based on Przybyszewska's The Danton Case, but I think this is unlikely. The play was apparently little known in France at the time, and I could find no mention of it in movie magazines. Besides, it doesn't seem to have any Stasia-like elements from any point of view. According to François Huzar, Robespierre appears to have very little in the film (the author does not seem to have seen the film itself).

Ah! Your eminences!

Look out! He's back!

Look at those boyfriends who have matching buttons:

Buttons unlike everyone else's:

Maxime dressed SJ up in this verse confirmed.

The spoils of war, Saint-Just

I tried to draw Camille, I did as much as I could my first drawing of him, uhm I'm embarrassed to upload it lol (ignore that I don't know how to draw clothes pls) 🕴🏻

I can’t be the only one who sees it.