Once Upon a Time In Corsica

You mean on tumblr or in general?

1- Vilification of the French Revolution usually expressed in the famous “Robespierre killed everyone”

2- Tumblr special: “white people are evil and responsible for everything bad that happened in the world while the rest of the world just follows this noble savage trope”

3- Beethoven/Mozart is back.

4- The Inquisition burned millions of people - mind me, the Inquisition did kill quite a lot of people but it was a very complex organization and the image of the Inquisitor dressed in black with sinister intents killing every woman who had a cat is a bit outdated. Inquisitional processes are very often much more intricate than that and people weren’t just “arbitrarily” burned at the stake.

5- The “Dark Ages” myth.

6- During the Roman period everyone knew how to read and everyone read Cicero then came the middle ages and people stopped bathing and reading.

7- The Catholics are fanatics but the Protestants are the epitome of tolerance. Explanation: it is true that countries like the Netherlands and Britain were more tolerant of other religions than the Catholic countries but that doesn’t mean that tolerance was a widespread thing. Lord Acton who was a catholic living in the end of 19th century Britain was barred from admittance at Cambridge because of his religion.

8- Slavery as something that began with the 15th century European expansion. The word literally comes from slavs. 

9- Marie Antoinette painted as a naive person who was unfairly persecuted by the revolutionaries instead of the savvy political woman (she was over 30 in 1789) she was raised and educated to be.

10- Imperialism as something invented by Europeans.

On the surface they’re similar; both “foreign” to the country they ruled, both served in the military, both failed to defeat Britain, and both then opened a disastrous second front against Russia.

They roamed the streets like lionesses (Elles erraient comme des lionnes).

From Histoire de la Révolution française (History of the French revolution), by Jules Michelet, Paris, 1869.

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