#fersen

Everyone seems to remember Max's "Pity is treason" stance [horribly mangled from what he actually said], but have you ever heard Fersen say "Clemency would be extremely pernicious"?

How about royalist Malet du Pan's warning against "harmful pity"? And Mercy-Argenteau's exhortation that the Jacobins must be "exterminated"?

Fersen's quote is not from his diary, by the way, but in a letter to Breteuil during the 1792 invasion of France, when Breteuil was on French soil actively helping to administer the captured territories & pushing for "exemplary punishments".

This is specifically described in the context of the September Massacres, but I hope I've made clear by now, Breteuil's (&probably Bouillé's) plans for vengeance and crushing punishments long predates this period.

The Road from Versailles by Munro Price, 2002, p. 307

And Breteuil's authority to act on behalf of the king had just been re-asserted and confirmed:

↳ ayakaze sakina & asami jun & yumeshiro aya in snow troupe's the rose of versailles: fersen, graph 9.2024 ☆

Thanks to people who promoted them on tt as otp now I ship them hhhh

Hans Axel Von Fersen, the first of the RoV MC art series I drew! I find it hilarious that it was Fersen of all people who kicked off this little series because he’s my least favourite RoV protagonist overall (he’s fine I just don’t have much to say about him) but this image popped into my head and I just had to.