*sporfle*

[montagnarde1793]

All of you really need to read Le Chevalier de Saint-Just, if only for passages like this:

—Ainsi, vous vous appelez Louis Léon Antoine Florelle… Vous voyez, je me souviens. Et moi Maximilien Marie Isidore. Mais mes proches m’appellent Maximilien. Et vous, quel est celui de vos prénoms que vous préférez ?

Saint-Just parut un peu décontenancé.

—Que vous dire… Mes parents m’appellent Antoine, mais moi je préfère Léon.

—Et moi, Florelle. Voilà un prénom charmant, et peu ordinaire ! N’évoque-t-il pas Flore, la déesse des fleurs ? L’épanouissement des qualités physiques et spirituelles de l’homme ? Comme il vous va bien ! Vous permettez que je vous appelle Florelle ?

Saint-Just, maîtrisant sa confusion, répondit simplement :

—Avec plaisir. Ce qui vous plaît ne peut me déplaire.

Comments

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Dawwwwwwwwwww. Well that is just plain CUTE. I really need that book.

D-M

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Truly, it is adorable.
..They've got lots of scenes like that.

And aside from the author's putting in a non-existent Duplay, it's pretty accurate too.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Wait, so you've read it? Aack! Lucky!

Tell me about the other scenes!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Calm, calm....I haven't read the whole thing; just bits and pieces. I mean, it's a 400-page book and I just got it today!

You really want me to give that much away?

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Where'd you get it? Don't say AbeBooks, 'cause then you've taken MY copy! *pouts*

*nodnodnod*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Okay, don't get upset. Remain calm. Yes, I did get it from AbeBooks. *winces* Sorry!

Well the rest of that scene is pretty cute...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Crap. Oh well, they had more than one copy. I'm going to presume you took the cheapest one, though. Ah well. I'll live.

Go oooon....what about the bed scene?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

...but isn't Elise the non-existent Duplay Elisabeth? I might be wrong, of course, I barely skimmed through the pages of the book weeks ago.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

You would think that, but no; Elisabeth, Eléonore, and Victoire are all in it.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

o.O

Maybe it's Maurice's nephew (don't remember his name) who decided to get a sex change...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Considering that she has a baby...

She's just non-existent.

And his name is Simon, by the way; he was the one who got his leg blown off at Valmy--something else which would tend to discourage the view that she's him, since she can walk normally from what I can tell.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Simon was his name...

[rainofthenight.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Have to read it. The sweetness! Doesn't it inspire you...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Indeed it does. They're really quite cute...for most of the book, actually.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Oh, I had already found that part... I have the book at home... and actually need to start reading it.


You know, Maxime proposes Antoine Florelle to sleep in his bed if he's tired, like, five minutes later. Poor Maxime. So clueless.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Well, Really!

I know--if you look at the rest of that rather long conversation with DM, I typed that out too...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I read, but I had already posted this comment :P

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I see....Thoughts?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I think I don't feel like thinking today...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

And why not? It's important to think at some level all the time, I hate to inform you...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Read my last post, and you'll get it... sighs.

[lucius-artorius.livejournal.com]

et il y a un sot aristocrate....hehe.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Your randomness knows no bounds. XD

[myst-walker.livejournal.com]

*dies* So adorable! Hmmm, come to think of it, if I was Robespierre, I'd call him "Florelle" too. XD

Avec plaisir. Ce qui vous plaît ne peut me déplaire.
That's like pure gold right there. *grins*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...They're just very cute in this book; what can I say? ;)

And Florelle is a good name for him.