gay or european?

aka "saintspierre"

and related Queer History Discussions

Analysis of the queerness of the fragments "On Affections" from Saint-Just's Institutions républicaines

Why we talk of queer erasure and homophobia when it comes to dismissing Robespierre and Saint-Just's relationship specifically

Digression from this post on homosociality and homosexuality in the late 18th century

Why projecting a father/son dynamic on Robespierre and Saint-Just is antiethical to their politics, personalities and identities

A few historians and other writers on Robespierre and Saint-Just's relationship

Two first-hand testimonies on the intimacy between Robespierre and Saint-Just

Why saintspierre doesn't reduce Saint-Just (just something very poetic I wrote about them)

About the lack of textual "evidence" part I

About the lack of textual "evidence" part II

Revolutionary perception of time and the forging of friendships during life-changing events

On Saint-Just using "tu" for Robespierre in the same letter in which Le Bas uses "vous"

Saint-Just wasn't only "one man among 21 who supported Robespierre" and even the Thermidorians knew it

Dracula Daily can be for anything in the public domain.... so why not some non-fiction? LEF will send out, approximately weekly, a letter (of varying length) relevant to the French Revolution on the relevant date. We will begin on 14 Juillet 1789 and slowly make our way to 1794. People can hop on and off the train at any time, and "necroposting" is completely fine.

You can participate by:

subscribing to the Substack (salutpublic.substack.com)

discussing the letter of the week on Tumblr with the tag "#liberty epistolary fraternity" (all kinds of posts are welcome! meta, art, shitposting, etc are all contributing. have fun with it!)

interacting with other people's posts

submitting letters you want to see to this Tumblr with an ask (please do this hehehe)

Because of the long cycle of this subscription, every new month there will be an "off-season" letter, which can be from any point in the French Revolution, or outside within reason, so you can expect four regular letters and one additional letter every month.

Lafayette age ~34 and 68.

Now let us celebrate our true hero:

He's just a little guy (who kinda orchestrated the first Red Scare and the repression of the Babouvistes)~!

Yes, I know they all look like the same emotion, but if you’re an expert in Saint-Just’s moods and Denis Manuel’s range, you can tell that they’re each different shades of despair, resignation, frustration, betrayal and hopelessness.

1. "Maxime, why are you betraying our ideal of a social republic? I thought it was what you wanted. If you hadn't been so ill we would have been making out over the Ventôse Decrees."

2. "Alright then. At least the soldiers understand me. Not the generals. And certainly not our dear colleagues at the military affairs. Maybe a cannonball will hit me and I won't need to deal with this bullshit anymore."

3. "Maxime, I literally just came back from the armies, why are you doing this now?! Are you really leaving me alone with them?? And why do you keep saying such mean things like I would choose them??"

4. "Dear Supreme Being it's a good thing I love this man because I might do or say something I regret."

5. "So much for trying to fix this shit."

6. "And I decided to make it my life purpose to defend this man. And appeal to friendship. I feel like such a dumbass."

7. "Fuck it. I will love you even in hell."

8. "Well, we're gonna die, and I knew it, and it was all for nothing."

Antinous as Dionysos. C. 130 AD. Marble. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Inv.  MR 414 - N 1299/ Ma 238

(maybe meeting modern au hamburr if you want idk)