DO NOT WANT.

[montagnarde1793]

OMFSB, Simon Schama is on the Colbert Report. I can't watch. D: D: D:

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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWWWWW. :(

You have no idea how much that one sentence makes me want to vomit.

What is he talking about, out of curiosity? Hopefully that recent book of his dealing with America and not something dear to our hearts?

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I know. Isn't he one of the highest paid historians in the US? (Oh have you seen the letter exchange between him and Norman Hampson? Its hillarious. Hampson basically says, well...you'd get your facts right if you CARED about the subject...)

[josiana.livejournal.com]

;_______________________________________; *curses the heavens*

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

Why does that man always insist on showing his face in public?! Argh.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

why is he on there? Is he trying to destroy history again? xD hasn't he done it already? That's only baddddddd

[(Anonymous)]

Citoyenne,

I just wanted to tell you I have been reading parts of your journal for the past few days and I've really enjoyed it! You write on such interesting matters! It seems like you've had such a broad education in the most important things, and I was surprised to realise that you are in fact younger than me and still I think in school, although it seems you have a very detailed knowledge of things for that.

I studied the French Revolution last year in university for a whole term just devoted to it, yet that only revealed the tip of the iceberg, and I did mainly the beginning with the constitutional monarchy and then the napoleonic years and not much of the 1790s, so this year studying the 18th century I revisited it to do an essay on the Terror. But I was just floundering about really.. even my tutor didn't have much constructive thing to say about it (my first tutor dismissed it as uninteresting)

But I digress, I mean to say, I found many astonishing and new things, not to mention your refreshing views about Simon Schama, whom everyone really loves over here (aka Perfidious Albion as you call) and also your translations of French are really great - how is your French so good? Mine is awful. I found a pamphlet from 1795 about the Jacobins aux Enfers and I was so slow reading it even though it was quite interesting. I'm sure you've come across this one!

What else, what else.. er.. yeah, I've been to lectures by Blanning (another historian you mention) as well and I do find some of his claims dubious. I am more knowledgeable on the 17th century France, but he has odd things to say about that too. My idea of him is that he writes these really broad sweeping history theses that have lots of mistakes, although everyone always recommends his Class War or Culture Clash

Anyway sorry really long post but I just wanted to be like.. I mean, you said your journal was boring inthe description but it's really not! It's great! I am definitely going to take some of your recommendations for reading about the Terror and Robespierre, because.. I suspect a lot of what I've read is quite strange
I mean. Have you read Penser la Revolution Francaise by Furet? He has .. I didn't really understand what he meant in his Robespierre section.. It seemed he was describing him as some kind of magical prophet. but. anyway.

Keep up the good work,

A well-meaning historian
who may or may not have a livejournal
of which he is too ashamed

P.S. please write back about your school, because - it seems really different to mine! - so envious!