#duplays

"A view through this window where Robespierre must surely have come to rest his shoulder from time to time..."

"...it was in this space...that the dining room, the kitchen, and a small living room used to be. All of that is gone now, but the space is still there!

"...I'm eating peacefully in the very same room where Robespierre, as well as guests like Saint-Just, Couthon, and others, used to eat between 1791 and 1794. Tradition has it that this is also where Robespierre sometimes read Rousseau or Corneille to family and friends."

Followed the link to that blog from this blog; it sounds like there's been a lot of uncertainty & debate, (because of course there is; Max could not possibly leave anything but complexity behind...), but just the thought that the place where he lived still exists in some form is deeply moving.

At the Duplays', Robespierre's life and surroundings were comfortable, respectable, eminently bourgeois; and he was pampered by his adoring hosts. He did not, when fleeing rumoured reprisals, seek shelter in the faubourg Saint-Antoine; he did not seek out a hovel in the bowels of Paris, where lay much of his popular support. The Duplay home was suitable to one of his position, with its respectable neighbourhood, vine-covered walls, quiet courtyard, and proper owners. He stayed on until his death.