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The real tragedy about the barricade is that we donât know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because weâll never know.Â
Charles Jeanne (who I think is probably actual real life Enjolras) wrote an in-detail account of the ACTUAL barricades in a letter to his sister after the fact
you can read it, tenlittlebullets translated it into English :)
itâs really graphic, he leaves no gory details out, just FYI if youâre gonna read it, keep TW: VIOLENCEÂ in mind
#how is he real-life enjolras if he survived (via metellus-cimber)
Iâm so glad somebody asked this, because the answer is: when they finally ran out of ammunition, Charles Jeanne rounded up everyone who was still standing, went, âlook, if weâre going to die, we might as well die fighting,â and led a suicidal ten-man charge against an entire flippinâ infantry column, armed with nothing but bayonets. The first few ranks of soldiers were so unprepared for such a spectacularly insane attack that they were too surprised to shoot. They crossed bayonets and tried to hold the insurgents off in hand-to-hand combat, but Jeanneâs swordsmanship was apparently aces, because he held off a bunch of them at once and covered his friends as they tried to breach the ranks. And once they were in, nobody could shoot them for fear of taking out their own guys.
So the last stand that the insurgents had intended as a noble suicide ended in them breaking through the ranks entirely and winding up in the next street over, outside the combat zone, going âwell shit, what do we do now?â (Iâm guessing the infantry column wasnât very deep; central Paris at that point was a rabbit warren of narrow twisty streets, and assembling troops en masse for an organized attack was a logistical nightmare.) Unlike the National Guard, the army werenât total chumps and got themselves turned around to give chase and start shooting once they werenât at risk of friendly fire any longer⌠and thatâs when all the civilians holed up in their houses went âno way, youâre not getting your hands on these outrageous bastardsâ and started hurling furniture and crockery down on the soldiersâ heads. Jeanne was understandably distracted at the time, but afterwards somebody informed him that the barrage of unlikely projectiles included a piano. A piano. That is some straight-up Looney Tunes slapstick right there. No wonder Hugo went for the heroic death scene instead; if heâd stuck to real life, he probably wouldâve gotten complaints that heâd wrecked his readersâ suspension of disbelief.
Anyway, someone opened an alley gate for them to shelter in and take stock of the casualtiesâmost of them survived(!!!), but a few were pretty nastily wounded. Their host then had to lock Charles Jeanne in to keep him from charging right back out and taking on the whole goddamn army singlehanded. He probably wouldâve broken down the door if the poor man hadnât pointed out that going back out would give away his wounded comradesâ hiding place and the identities of the people sheltering them. They sat there listening to the gunfire gradually slow and go silent, and then in the middle of the night the ones who could still walk were allowed to slip away one by one at long intervals from each other. Charles Jeanne went straight home, slept like the dead for a few hours, was woken up at five in the morning with a warning that heâd been denounced and the building was surrounded, and then slipped out in disguise and managed to evade the police for four months before a former comrade ratted him out and he was arrested.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Charles Jeanneâs letter is an absolute treasure that deserves to be available to anyone in Les Mis fandom who wants to read it. Incidentally, âhow Actual Historical Enjolras survived the barricades by being too good at his suicide missionâ is also one of the stories I tell when anyone asks me what the hell is so interesting about researching people nobodyâs ever heard of from an obscure chapter of French history.Â
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Hereâs our video from yesterdayâs Cabin Pressure recording - and most specifically the very end, at which point the lovely thepudupudu gave John the Lemons & Landmarks book.Â
This was recorded after the actual recording and retakes and the video belongs to @SherlockBelgium.
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* Rachel Verinder - Young lady who receives the ominous Yellow Diamond.
* Rosanna Spearman - Suspicious and silent maid.
* Ezra Jennings - Mysterious doctor addicted to opium.
* Godfrey Ablewhite - Handsome philapthropist and love interest of Rachel.
* Drusilla Clack - Overly-pious distant relative to Rachel.
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Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn arenât in earshot theyâll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah weâre the worst
Legolas:
~*~earlier~*~
Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits
Merry: Frodo whatâd he say
Frodo: Iâm not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think heâs insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish
Merry: I mean you could do that but consider
Merry: you can only tell him ONCE
Frodo: Merry. Youâre absolutely right. Iâll wait.
#legolasâ hick accent vs #frodoâs âi learned it out of a bookâ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible
Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK
Frodo: :)
Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?
Legolas: yâalldâveâffâve
Frodo, crying: please I canât understand what youâr saying
Ok, but Frodo didnât just learn out of a book. He learned like⌠Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:
Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.
Legolas: Wots that mate? âEre, you avinâ a giggle? Fookinâ âobbits, I sware.
Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*
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i mean, honestly itâs amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.
english would probably have changed less since Chaucerâs time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
theyâve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodoâs books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isnât likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragornâs foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolasâ father was born.
so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we canât really tell because there werenât years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.
plus a lot of Bilboâs materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didnât establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isnât the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.
so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron heâs probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but heâs not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.
to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolasâ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.
so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when heâs being casual. or both!
considering legolasâ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.
âŚitâs also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didnât learn as a kid.
which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and theyâre just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.
this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. thereâs a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!
Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but yâallâdâve pitched a feckinâ fit.
Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now
Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?
Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?
Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbitsâ weird dialect this whole time: Thatâs what it sounds like to me.
Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.
Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.
Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man
Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s
Tolkien would be SO PROUD of this post
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there may come a day when i do not reblog this post, but it is NOT THIS DAY
You know, if youâre become a fan of linguistics while reading LOTR, then youâre doing it right
i really liked this chapter!! (â äşşâ *â ´â ââ ď˝â )