I slipped into reading some of the OP again and can I just rant as to why every passage must have some reference to Éléonore's plainness/drabness/dreariness. It's like Mantel is offended Robespierre might have chosen someone not picture perfect. She sounds like some crappy tabloid that always convulses in shock if a successful man starts going out with anything less than a supermodel.
Also Charlotte's comments on Babet(te) make no sense as she was the Duplay Charlotte liked.
Now I want to draw the three of them...
Do it do it do it! With acolnahuacatl's Éléonore we can have a whole thread of Robespierre and Éléonore art and stuff to combat the awfulness in the original post. And I really want to see what you come up with. Do it! Brount must be cute
If a little bit fluffy
It is ridiculously fluffy. I mean at the very least Robespierre should probably have had some exchange with Maurice about the state of the Jacobins in his absence, and how the new Assembly was doing etc. Note how I heroically sacrificed historical verisimilitude to bring shameless puppy fluff. When you consider all the future has in store for these three and how it will end for them and that Robespierre now has to go and have dinner with Pétion and have his arse bored off by another account of how captivating Marie-Antoinette was on the way back from Varennes I think half an hour of overdone puppy cuteness is the least I can do for them.
I was under the impression that turpentine smelled rather unpleasant.
It's an acquired taste and Robespierre acquires it ;). But you know, Éléonore is a painter and she has to make sacrifices for her art, and one of those is having to work with chemicals that can leave one smelling a little strange. (Randomly, I once worked in a loco paintshop and became mildly addicted to the smell, which was fortunate as it is very hard to get off one's skin.) Also it's like an erasing fluid and Éléonore has been erased from history and see wow Hilary I can do bad metaphors too.
And I forgot to add: the image of puppy!Brount trying to play with Robespierre's cravat is priceless
:) - you just know puppies would though, don't you?
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Also Charlotte's comments on Babet(te) make no sense as she was the Duplay Charlotte liked.
Now I want to draw the three of them...
Do it do it do it! With
Brount must be cuteIf a little bit fluffy
It is ridiculously fluffy. I mean at the very least Robespierre should probably have had some exchange with Maurice about the state of the Jacobins in his absence, and how the new Assembly was doing etc. Note how I heroically sacrificed historical verisimilitude to bring shameless puppy fluff. When you consider all the future has in store for these three and how it will end for them
and that Robespierre now has to go and have dinner with Pétion and have his arse bored off by another account of how captivating Marie-Antoinette was on the way back from VarennesI think half an hour of overdone puppy cuteness is the least I can do for them.I was under the impression that turpentine smelled rather unpleasant.
It's an acquired taste and Robespierre acquires it ;). But you know, Éléonore is a painter and she has to make sacrifices for her art, and one of those is having to work with chemicals that can leave one smelling a little strange. (Randomly, I once worked in a loco paintshop and became mildly addicted to the smell, which was fortunate as it is very hard to get off one's skin.)
Also it's like an erasing fluid and Éléonore has been erased from history and see wow Hilary I can do bad metaphors too.And I forgot to add: the image of puppy!Brount trying to play with Robespierre's cravat is priceless
:) - you just know puppies would though, don't you?