Have you accepted the Terror in your life?

Executing Louis XVI was actually so problematic if you think about it... like he was fat, asexual, and mentally ill? How many of the peasants were thin/allo/NT? Also he wore wigs which like... slay?

There are so, so many frev books with this image included and I am ????

i assume anon means this painting was used as a cover illustration for a history book about the 1789 revolution. unpopular opinion but i don’t mind it too much, it is one of the rare iconic paintings that represent the popular revolutionary spirit in a positive and relatable way. i can’t think up of an equivalent for the 1789 revolution, apart maybe David’s Tennis Court Oath but the subject and conveyed message are very different. frev paintings with a similar subject usually show immense crowds of revolutionaries so it’s harder to get one powerful emotion out of them.

Robespierre takes off his wig to reveal a second smaller wig underneath.