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Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:41 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:36 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:49 (UTC)...Which would put us back at square one. >__
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Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:51 (UTC)At least we know how to zombiefy Victor Hugo. Um.
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Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:25 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:30 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:32 (UTC)You would have to be a pretty bad person to kill Victor Hugo no matter how decayed he was, I should think.(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:34 (UTC)I agree. ;____;(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:50 (UTC)Poor Victor Hugo. :((no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:15 (UTC)At least we love him. In our own twisted way.(no subject)
Date: Thursday, 18 January 2007 06:32 (UTC)What's the non-twisted way of loving him?(no subject)
Date: Friday, 19 January 2007 08:35 (UTC)Er. The way that does not involve doing horribly warped things to his characters, presumably.(no subject)
Date: Friday, 19 January 2007 20:45 (UTC)But where would the fun be in that?(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:03 (UTC)I'm not sure. ;-;(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:19 (UTC)Precisely my point.(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:43 (UTC)Do you always have a point? ;___;(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:04 (UTC)Usually. Is that bad? -__-;(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:07 (UTC)No. ;___; I just wondered.(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:15 (UTC)Why? Because, as you have said, you often don't?(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:25 (UTC)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)
Date: Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:05 (UTC)You can make an artistic statement out of anything; people have, and do.(no subject)
Date: Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:21 (UTC)Oh, well in that case... :D(no subject)
Date: Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:38 (UTC)XD