#apogs

Camille : I do if i'm quiet for a long time, that's why i talk such a lot, i need to - anyway, their majesties were warm inside their carriage, while the rest of us mere mortals froze, and even after they drove away, Robespieere continued delivering the oration to the pouring heavens.

LOVE that the apogs wikipedia page says this. like okay so other people are seeing this too

@18thcenturythirsttrap

like the book definitely has strong themes, but none of them are gender and the revolution, mostly just that it was bad for women at the time, generally, but not a proper picture of what women *did* about it

history is fiction. he would like the world transparent too. it’s forcing yourself to live not to live but for a future that won’t remember you, that will retroactively unwrite you if it doesn’t distort you beyond recognition. how fouquier-tinville of all people has to comfort robespierre after their last meeting. “you’ll get over him.” camille makes people want to touch him, but robespierre can’t even bring himself to acknowledge that part of him. the irony is that in the end, he did anyway - with the last red stroke of a blade through the throat, the last and most terrible touch sublimated away into empty spaces, gaps in the lace.

The whole book in a nutshell tbh

Once again. Hello intellectual community @scripps