À la cime de la Montagne

“Ah ! pauvre peuple, adieu le siècle d’or, N’attends plus que peine et misère : Il est passé dès le dix thermidor, Jour qu’on immola Robespierre. Quand il vivait, il allégeait nos maux, Il avait toute notre estime : Les décemvirs, pour perdre ce héros, L’accusent de leur propre crime. Ah ! pauvre peuple, adieu le siècle d’or… Commune, aussi, tu fus de leur complot, Avec eux tu brisas le trône ; Pour t’en punir, tu meurs sur l’échafaud, Et c’est le Sénat qui l’ordonne. Il nous ravit cet heureux siècle d’or Et nous plonge dans la misère, En égorgeant, aux jours de thermidor, Nos magistrats et Robespierre. Républicains qui, dans ces jours d’horreur, Sûtes échapper au carnage, Rallions-nous et, d’une même ardeur, Jurons de venger tant d’outrages. Reconquérons notre heureux siècle d’or, Exécrons celui de misère ; Vengeons la France, et du dix thermidor, Et de la mort de Robespierre.”

10th Thermidor Death Records

OYEZ OYEZ français (et résidents en France), vous vous souvenez de l’Affaire du siècle, cette vaste campagne pour la justice climatique ?

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

“Heard ye o’ the Tree o’ France, I watna, what ’s the name o’t; Around it a’ the patriots dance - Weel Europe kens the fame o’t. It stands where ance the Bastille stood, A prison built by kings, man, When Superstition’s hellish brood Kept France in leading-strings, man.”

So we just don't know her birthday? There's no public record of it?

I've made a post about it a few years ago when I found her burial record, because it says she was "65 and a half" when she died in July 1832, which would put her birth in the first half of 1767 or even in the last months of 1766 ! She lived with her brother Jacques-Maurice, he owned the grave she was buried him and was very likely the one who said she was "65 and a half", which sounds too precise to be a mistake ?

I haven't been on tumblr much lately, so I missed the original post, but that's an extremely interesting find! I didn't realize they had put the cemetery records online. Unfortunately, I think that's probably the best evidence we're likely to get, as neither Éléonore's baptismal record nor her death certificate seem to have made it into the reconstituted état-civil.