And take us on the roads again

Realised Caesar would’ve first met Brutus when he was very young because of his relationship with Servilia… I need a moment

(Bonus Latin for the nerds out there)

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Marie Marguerite Charlotte Robespierre (Claude Mazauric)

Arras, 5 February 1760 - Paris, 1 August 1840

The five chapters of Charlotte Robespierre’s Mémoires, published and prefaced by the revolutionary democrat Laponneraye, constitute one of the textual bases of Maximilien’s rehabilitation from the 1830s onwards. In spite of their hagiographical style, the uncertitudes and even the twisting of multiple facts and dates, the Mémoires of Charlotte, which undoubtedly have been rewritten by Laponneraye based on notes and meetings, have been used by all biographies of Maximilien, particularly everything which concerns the years of adolescence, which are rather obscure, and the beginnings of the two brothers.

Having remained in Arras with the younger Augustin after Maximilien’s departure for the Estates-General, Charlotte lived there rather frugally, but experienced a part of the nascent glory of her elder brother passing onto her. In September 1792 she accompanied Augustin, who had just been elected to the Convention by the capital, to Paris, where her jealousy immeditaly led her to come into conflict with the Duplays, in whose home Robespierre lodged. She accompanied Augustin and Ricord on their mission in the South-East, but fell out with Madame Ricord, whom she suspected of being her brother’s mistress, and returned to Paris. In the spring of Year II, her brothers broke off all ties with her because of the intrigues which developed around her, both in Arras, whereto she made a brief journey, and in Paris. Fouché, whom Robespierre rejected, undoubtedly courted her ; the ex-Dantonist Guffroy and the ex-Hébertist Musquinet de Saint-Félix sought to use her. Having been arrested on 13 Thermidor, she was liberated by the Thermidorian Committee of General Security. From 1803 onwards, she received, not a pension, but an aide periodique upon the decision of Bonaparte, who allocated it to the debits of the comptes spéciaux of the Ministry of the Interior, directed by Fouché. However diminished, this aid was upheld by the successive governments until Charlotte’s death.

Charlotte died among those who had accommodated her since Messidor Year II, citizen Mathon and later his daughter, to whom she left some modest pieces of furniture and personal effects : « no furniture, no rentes sur l’Etat, no funds », like all Robespierres.

Being a true figure de sœur, possessive to the point of fury, Charlotte suffered from not having been given love by her brothers at a crucial time of her existence. She survived them by forty-six years, desperately attempting to reconstruct afterwards what no longer existed in Year II. Transfigured by Lapponeraye’s address into a priestess of Robespierrism, Charlotte attained a foothold in the legend.

The Duplay family (R. Monnier)

This family of Jacobins at whose house Robespierre lived from July 1791 onwards, is known for its loyalty to the Incorruptible and to his memory. The father, Maurice Duplay, was a builder of carpentry native to Haute-Loire, an active citizen of the Section des Piques. Around fifty years old at the time of the Revolution, a father of five children, he was a well-to-do proprietor : his three Parisian houses provided him 15,000 livres of income, a considerable sum for the time. In the Year IV, he bought the house that he inhabited, 366 rue Saint-Honoré, dependent on the former  convent of Conception, for more than 30,000 F, sold as a bien national. It was there that the Duplay family lived during the Revolution. A great friendship connected Robespierre to his hosts, who were very fond of him and in whose family life he took part. The youngest of the daughters, Elizabeth, married the Conventionnel Lebas. The love which the eldest, Eléonore, felt for Robespierre was reserved and almost exalted by the voluntary sacrifice to an engagement that was completely in the service of the Revolution.

The whole family was arrested after 9 Thermidor. The wife of Maurice Duplay died in prison. He himself was included in the process of Fouqier-Tinville, as a former judge in the Revolutionary Tribunal, acquitted on 17 Floréal Year III and released. Eléonore remained in prison until the end of Year III, as well as her brother Jacques-Maurice and her cousin Simon, wrongly considered to have been the secretary of Robespierre.

The nephew of Maurice Duplay, Simon Duplay, called « Duplay à la jambe de bois », was born in 1774 ; he lived and worked in the house of his uncle whose trade he learned. Having been a voluntary in 1792, he lost a leg at Valmy. He was an office employee at the police station, then at the Committee of Public Safety in Prairial Year II. After being arrested on 14  Thermidor, for having protested against the arrest of the Duplay family at the Jacobins, he was incarcerated at the Plessis prison, where he made friends with the Babouvist leaders. He founded in Year IV, under the pseudonym of Lalande, a newspaper that was intended for the popular classes, L'éclaireur du Peuple pu le Défenseur de vingt-quatre millions d'opprimés, which had 7 issues, from 12 Ventôse to 8 Floréal. In Year V, he entered the offices of the general police, where he remained until the Bourbon Restauration.

The son of Maurice Duplay, Jacques Maurice, born in 1777, had accompanied his brother-in-law to the armies of the Rhine and Moselle. Like his father, he made the acquaintance of Buonarroti at the Plessis prison after Thermidor, and was arrested in Floréal Year IV. Indicted at Vendôme, he was acquitted, just like his father. He founded, in Vendémiaire Year XI, a newspaper titled L'Indiscret, and later entered in the administration of the Hospices.

Letter from Mme Duplay to her daughter

This rough draft of a letter, written by Mme Duplay, seems to have been destined for her daughter (presumably Mme Auzat). It was found at the house of the Duplays after 9 Thermidor.

You told me, by your last [letter], that you had written me several times, and nonetheless I have only received one of your letters since the month of September. Your silence greatly afflicts me; I believed that you had forgotten our mother. I would have nonetheless given my news to you; but, knowing that you remembered me again.

We are in continual fits of terror here: our perfidious representatives, far from taking care of making the people happy and of raising nascent liberty on solid foundations, on the contrary seek to debase it and to smother it. The voice of truth can no longer make itself heard in the Convention; at last, villainy is at its height there. The few patriots who have remained pure have fought until now with courage, but I see them on the verge of succumbing, and liberty on the verge of being destroyed forever, if the people does not rise in order to bring down all the scoundrels who have not wanted the death of the tyrant. What more would I tell you? Even Giraud has deserted the cause of the people, in order to stand at the side of the rogues, and he is not the smallest of them.

This is where we are: add to this the trouble of our affairs; your father has been obliged to resume his profession. None of our houses is rented; but we will console ourselves of this, if something for the public interest resulted from it…