Citoyenne la traductrice jacobine

...Even if it's been more than a month. I have been rather busy though.

That said, a piece of advice: never blog-search A Place of Greater Safety--I found someone who read it upon the recommendation of... SIMON SCHAMA. *bangs head against walls* I must be crazily masochistic to have done so myself, but I figure it can't hurt to know what I'm up against... To sum: no one seems able to shut up about what a brilliant writer she is--which I will concede--and, what truly kills me, how accurate it is. 

In other words, the only bright point was someone who had read somewhere--probably hereabouts--to be wary of the characterizations of Saint-Just, Le Bas, and the Duplays. Sadly, it occurs to me that such warning are completely useless for most people, for the simple reason that they don't know who any of them are.

(As a side note, there is a pathetically high number of people who cannot seem to avoid the temptation to ask themselves the completely nonsensical question of "Why did the American 'Revolution' 'work' when the French Revolution 'degenerated into a bloodbath'?" Why indeed. Why is there a difference between, say, the English and American Civil Wars? After all, they're both civil wars, aren't they? And save us if we should ever use anything but the US as a standard for comparison. *headdesk*)

But I digress. I had meant this post originally to show my corollary--really just an earlier sketch of part of the idea--to maelicia's more complete drawing, posted yesterday.