Histoires d'Amour de l'histoire de France

On a subject much discussed of late... (I had a better introduction to this, but LJ ate my entry. >__>) It's been noted that many writers are fond of making unverifiable assertions about the private lives of historical figures, in particular Robespierre. Well, I may well have found the worst offender on that score. Doubtless, Guy Breton's Histoires d'Amour de l'histoire de France (tome VI, on the Revolution) makes some rather disturbing assertions, but more disturbing still, is, as you will see, the fact that when it comes to giving his opinions there are actually some* of them I agree with--which I've bolded. Except for that, I wouldn't have bothered to post this but... Well, you'll have to read it. 

*Obviously there are others I do not, cannot, and will never even remotely agree with. In fact, that would be most of them, but nevertheless there are some I can't help seeing as reasonable, if only by chance.

( In the original )

I should mention, by the way, that the author of That Book About Le Bas advances a pretty convincing argument for Mme Duplay's death having been murder rather than suicide.

The same entry as the previous, but in translation

( Histoires d'Amour de l'histoire de France )

Explanations, as far as I can give them, will be found, as hinted in this entry's title, in the previous entry