B.M.Aye

Basically what happened was— during the French Rev the laws around registering names were relaxed, so people started giving extremely revolutionary names to themselves and their babies.

Sadly Napoleon’s government later cracked down on this. When Napoleon came into power he passed a restrictive law mandating that people had to choose among a list of “normal” names, banning the weird revolution ones, because he was a spineless coward afraid of the power these names had. The restrictive naming laws weren’t repealed until late in the 20th century.

But anyway here are some of my favorite French Rev baby names (taken from this list):

Mort Aux Aristocrates -“Death to Aristocrats”

Amour Sacré de la Patrie l’an Trois -“Sacred Love of the Fatherland Year III”

Lagrenade —“The Grenade”

Droit de l’Homme Tricolor “Right of Man Tricolor”

Égalité — “Equality”

Régénérée Vigueur— “Regenerated Strength”

Marat, ami du peuple -“Marat, friend of the people”

Marat, défenseur de la Patrie—“Marat, defender of the Fatherland”

La Loi-“The Law”

Philippe Thomas Ve de bon coeur pour la République — “Philippe Thomas ‘Go with a good heart for the Republic’”

Raison —“Reason”

Simon Liberté ou la Mort —“Simon “Freedom or Death””

Citoyen Français—“French Citizen”

Sans Crainte— “Without Fear”

Unitée Impérissable— “Imperishable Unity”

Victoire Fédérative— “Federal Victory”

I was tagged by the lovely @toribookworm22 for this game! Thank you for including me <3

Here are my seven lines (technically there are ten but the scene/paragraph isn’t complete without those extra three so bear with me) from my fantasy/slightly sci-fi novel Hera: To Catch a Star if you’d like to give them a read. I chose a paragraph that wouldn’t contain any spoilers, and one where I describe the sky because as a story with a lot of space travel and planet-hopping I like to think the sky is pretty important in Hera. 

Hera: To Catch a Star releases in early 2023 

Make sure to like/reblog and stay tuned for updates on my novel!

My seven people tagged are:  @bmaye15 , @lillis-writes , @mylifeinslowmotion , @writing-and-trying , @harinawa , @elijahrichardwrites , and @elizaellwrites (I know you’ve already been tagged, but the more people who want to read some lines from your WIP the better)

Happy reading/writing!

~ Min

Here are the lines from the Hera trilogy’s debut novel:

I'm writing a scene about two characters who hate each other BUT it keeps ending in murder. Spoiler: they both need to survive.