*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.

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[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

The Saint-Just biography and "Twelve Who Ruled". At first it was just S-J, but now I've decided to hoard Palmer, too. It's got the only good bios of Collot, Billaud, and Hérault I can find.

HAHAHA! Indignant!Maxime...dawww. Is that what really happened, then? Or close to it? Pfft on Saint-Just for even ASKING about the list, silly boy.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

There's a new edition of Twelve Who Ruled out--it's the only decent account relating to the Revolution one can find in bookstores, these days. *facepalm*

The business with Charlotte, you mean? Yes, that's pretty much it.
Saint-Just really should have known better. XD

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

A new one? How new? The edition our library has is a reprint, but it's not terribly recent.

Oh my...silly Fouché.
What happend after? Did Maxime chide him for the comment? Did he tap him on the nose? DID HE BITCH-SLAP HIM?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I don't know how new, precisely: a year or two. If yours has a pinkish cover then it's not the one.

As thorougly amusing as the would have been, no, he did not bitch-slap him. *facepalm* The conversation merely continues like this:

—Alors, ça ne serait pas plus mal de l’établir. Tu es minutieux et féru d’ordre ; tu as une liste de « patriotes éprouvés », tu dois en avoir une des « ennemis confirmés ».
—Tu es insupportable.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

No, mine has an orange-ish cover.

..."Tu es insupportable" is close enough. I can see Maxime saying that with a -_- face.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Hm. The new one is kind-of cream-colored, with different colored squares.

Seriously! ...I think he actually does come pretty close to bitch-slapping him on another occasion though...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

That is SO not Palmer. O.o I'd like to see that now...

WHAT? But what does Saint-Just DO??

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691121877/sr=8-2/qid=1150863231/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-1153564-6374425?%5Fencoding=UTF8 I didn't remember it exactly correctly, but it's close enough.

I can't find the passage now, but Maxime asks Saint-Just when he's going to marry Henriette, and Saint-Just replies that he doesn't ask him when he's going to marry Eléonore, and then Maxime (who is obviously glaring at him by this point) says that they didn't just announce they were going to get married in Ventôse (it's now Germinal). *facepalm*