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There's apparently a town a bit to the South-East of Paris called "Saint-Just-Sauvage" that has a Rue Robespierre. Actually, there are a lot of towns around Paris with one. So why not Paris, eh? EH? None of the others have such interesting names though. I fail to understand why they would name their town Saint-Just-Sauvage," though... O.o Maybe there is a Saint-Just-Apprivoisé someplace.It would seem for the most part, to continue on the theme, that there are several towns with Rues Robespierre in Nord-Pas-de-Calais (unsurprisingly), several towns around Paris also do, and then randomly one near Brest and another few near Lyon. But that's it.
And meanwhile, they still refuse to name any street in Paris after him. Most likely on the grounds that he was OMGTEHBLOODTHIRSTYDICTATOR!!!111!!1! Which I find truly ironic, since there is a Rue Bonaparte in Paris and Bonaparte actually *was* a bloodthirsty dictator. (Or if he didn't have a direct thirst for blood his thirst for personal glory definitely spilled a lot of it.) What's up with that? I don't understand why they don't just give him one of Haussman's; after all he doesn't deserve isn't using it.
And WTF, there's a Rue de Médecis?! And damn, La Fayette's got a huge boulevard! Are the people who decide the street names in Paris completely unaware that he tried to set himself up as military dictator twice and massacred innocent Parisian citizens?! Then again, since there's a Rue Bonaparte, I suppose they don't care.
....I give up. ;______;
Actually, I spoke too soon: there's an Avenue Robespierre in a town near Toulon called La Garde.
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...Which would put us back at square one. >__
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At least we know how to zombiefy Victor Hugo. Um.
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You would have to be a pretty bad person to kill Victor Hugo no matter how decayed he was, I should think.no subject
I agree. ;____;no subject
Poor Victor Hugo. :(no subject
At least we love him. In our own twisted way.no subject
What's the non-twisted way of loving him?no subject
Er. The way that does not involve doing horribly warped things to his characters, presumably.no subject
But where would the fun be in that?no subject
I'm not sure. ;-;no subject
Precisely my point.no subject
Do you always have a point? ;___;no subject
Usually. Is that bad? -__-;no subject
No. ;___; I just wondered.no subject
Why? Because, as you have said, you often don't?no subject
Yes. ;-; I'm thinking of trying to incorporating it into my Eclectic Bohemian Lifestyle With Lots Of White Face Paint (TM), but that just makes me sound pretentious. And I'm not sure not making sense can be an artistic statement anyway.no subject
You can make an artistic statement out of anything; people have, and do.no subject
Oh, well in that case... :Dno subject
XD