Citoyenne la traductrice jacobine

 
This segment is rather short, but it says a lot, especially in the footnotes. The next one will be the last.

I forgot to mention in the last post, by the way, that I learned an interesting fact (that I might have suspected, but I didn't really think about) from that book by de Baecque that I was reading. Apparently all the different death masks said to be of Robespierre are fakes: they're no more a cast of his face than the portraits from which they're drawn. We know this because the Thermidorians took special precautions that no one should be able to make any kind of "relic" which might help in his posthumous rehabilitation. (Their orders on the subject were disturbingly specific.) I don't know why people continue to reproduce the image as if this wasn't the case, but I find that kind of blatant disregard for facts insulting. D:<