Musicals

Not Even Miracles by @everyonewasabird (In-progress and SO GREAT)

My two survival fics (Les Hommes de la Misericorde and Between the Soul and the Star. And I suppose my Hadestown/Les Mis AU counts?)

The Truth We Owe the Dead (isn’t that the one where just Combeferre survives?)

Was there one where it was just Enjolras and Grantaire?? I know there was at least one, but I can’t remember the title

It featured each of les amis experiencing a different sad part of the 20th century. They were having visions of what the 20th century would be like. At the end, Grantaire was in a history class and read all about the horrors of history in a textbook.

…in which Enjolras is Dorian, and things go a bit differently.

From a conversation with @robininthelabyrinth in which we noted the remarkable similarities between fandom!Grantaire and Basil Hallward, and then things spiraled out from there.

More under the cut:

Oooh! That sounds awesome :D Hope you get accepted! And definitely keep me updated on this project!

Okay so, I don’t actually have that many sources either? I mean you already have the most important ones. But I’ll list what I can think of here.

CONTEMPORARY SOURCES:

Louis Blanc’s The History of Ten Years 1830-1840 (1841)- Louis Blanc wasn’t an eye witness to the events but he was a contemporary- available online in French and in EnglishAntoine Rey-Dussueil’s Le Cloître de Saint-Méry (1832)- this is a work of fiction but it was published only months after the uprising and the appendices include actual eye witness testimonies, including an anonymous letter from Charles Jeanne, written while he was still on the run. (Jeanne’s letter starts on this page)- available online in French

@barricadeur also posted these police reports about the uprising and @ellie-valsin shared these newspaper sources. And of course Chanvrerie.net has a whole bunch of resources about the uprising. (I recommend Alexandre Dumas’s memoirs even if they don’t really talk about Jeanne directly.)

LATER SOURCES:

Thomas Bouchet’s other June Uprising book Le Roi et les barricades (2002) - criminally expensive but I managed to find it in my university library so it might not be that hard to track down?

Mark Traugott’s The Insurgent Barricade has some good stuff I think? Le Maitron Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français also has an article on Charles Jeanne and some of his comrades but I haven’t figured out how to access that yet so idk if how good it is….

Okay, I realise that these are all mostly about the uprising.For the prison resources… oh boy, I can’t even remember all the stuff I used in my posts. Much of it was just whatever I found online so I don’t know whether to really recommend those. I kind of hesitate to even link those posts here tbh because they’re really not reliable at all (or particularly well written). But well, you can fact check them yourself I guess, so here they are.

There’s also those letters I found on Ebay but I’d like to stress that I HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY’RE REAL. I’ve never seen any references to them anywhere.

i humbly present: a digital download of every article in the times of london about the 1832 june uprising, from the 5th (the announcement of general lamarque’s death and upcoming funeral) to the 20th (accounts of the first trials of alleged conspirators and participants in the uprising).

DOWNLOAD HERE (pdf, 64 pages, 24 mb)

below the cut, i’ve put together some important contextual information: how the times gathered news on foreign events, what other events you’ll see mentioned, and the general editorial bias of the paper. 

i’ve also made a little summary of each day’s coverage, so that if you’re overwhelmed by the full package, you can focus on the bits that interest you.

anyway, i hope you guys enjoy it/find it helpful!

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Enjoltaire FallenAngelAU HC that Grantaire has this tattooed on his body somewhere (because he liked the idea of a useless-but-for-a-single-use letter) and when Enj sees it he is very uncomfortable because a) why does the mortal have that does he KNOW?! and b) it’s kind of…intimate? Like it kind of makes it look like r….belongs?? with enjolras??? somehow??? like getting his mortal name would have been less personal than this (submitted by @she-s-a-shy-one)

Enjolras is legit so stressed? Like?? Out of all the tattoo designs Grantaire could have picked, this is the one he chose? Why? Did he figure it out? Did he figure Enjolras out? He can’t even imagine what happens to humans who figure out angels are walking in their midst! What if Grantaire gets smitten, gotten rid of because he knows too much? What if angels erase his memory?

“Your tattoo,” Enjolras asks once, trying to keep his voice steady, “what does it mean, why did you get it?”

Grantaire shrugs.