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"You don't understand, this is L'EMPEREUR who HATES KINGS! A true son of the French Revolution!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025893/you-don-t-understand-this-is-l-empereur-who-hates-kings-a-true-son-of-the-french-revolu

"Chop chop" France, 1793 AD

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2012159/chop-chop-france-1793-ad

27 years after its Bastille Day debut, Paul Peterson's Guillotine comes back under the Avalon Hill banner this August with updated art and tarot-sized nobles. Still a card game where winning means getting a head.
#GuillotineGame #AvalonHill #FrenchRevolution #CardGames #HasbroToys
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/historical/dont-lose-your-head-a-revamped-guillotine-is-on-the-way

THE NATION IN ARMS! For a good cause, right?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1934646/the-nation-in-arms-for-a-good-cause-right

THE NATION IN ARMS! For a good cause, right?

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1934634/the-nation-in-arms-for-a-good-cause-right

"Looks like a fair fight." - France

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1928970/looks-like-a-fair-fight-france

"[...] Democritus, who laughs at the world, and Heraclitus, who weeps over it.

The story of the #Jews tends to be told in the Heraclitan mode.

There is a name for this tendency: it is the ‘lachrymose conception of #Jewish #history’. This was the coinage of the #historian #SaloBaron, and intended in a pejorative way: #Baron spent his career criticising an earlier generation of #scholars for painting such a gloomy picture of #Jewishhistory. The #FrenchRevolution, #HeinrichGraetz had said, was a ‘judgement which in one day atoned for the sins of a thousand years’; the #emancipation of the Jews that followed in its wake marked the ‘dawn after their long slavery among the nations of #Europe’. Baron’s 1928 essay, ‘Ghetto and Emancipation’, called for a ‘break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth’. The historic truth, in his view, was that emancipation wasn’t all good, and the ghetto wasn’t all bad."

https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/venice-and-the-fate-of-the-jews/

🖤 For Black History Month, join us in celebrating the first Black classical music composer in France: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Inspired by the incredible true story of Bologne in 18th century France, Disney's Chevalier takes place during the lead up to the French Revolution. The film sheds light on the realities of France at this time and can ignite student interest in learning more about the French Revolution as well as this remarkable historical figure.

Our free Chevalier Discussion Guide also explores Bologne's legacy; Beginnings, Opportunity, and Excellence; and Race and Identity. For grades 11-12, adult/higher ed.

🔔 This is also a great film for Music in Our Schools Month in March!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/chevalier/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=bhm&utm_content=link

@histodons

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #History #Histodons #BlackVoices #Education #Movies #ClassicalMusic #Music #Homeschooling #Disney #ChevalierDeSaintGeorges #FrenchHistory #WorldHistory #FrenchRevolution

Congregation of the Holy Spirit

Officially known as: the Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary. Or in Latin: Congregatio Beatissimae Virginis Mariae.

This is a religious congregation for men in the Catholic Church. Members are known as Holy Ghost Fathers. Or in continental Europe, & the Anglosphere, as Spiritans. Members use the postnominals: CSSp. Postnominals are letters placed after a person’s name to signify academic degrees, professional qualifications, awards, military decorations, or honorific titles (like PhD).

The order began in Paris on Pentecost Sunday, 1703. Claude Poullart des Places was a wealthy young lawyer who abandoned his social standing to become a priest. He wanted to form a religious institute for young men who wanted to become priests but were too poor to do so.

Unlike orders that focused on the elite, Claude was moved by the plight of “poor scholars.” HIs vision was a “proletariat” clergy. Priests assignments in hospitals, rural parishes, & overseas missions.

Claude was born on February 26, 1679 in the capital city of Brittany, France: Rennes. Claude was tutored at home before being enrolled at the age of 9-10 as a day student in the nearby Jesuit college of St. Thomas. Thus beginning his lifelong association with the Society of Jesus.

Graduating at 16, Claude studied at the University of Caen, Normandy. Before graduating at 22, with a Licentiate in Law from the Law School of Nantes. A licentiate in law is an individual holding an academic degree or professional certification. This is usually below a doctorate but above a bachelor’s, that authorizes them to practice law.

In 1701, Claude Poullart began his studies for the priesthood, as a boarder at the Jesuit College in Paris. His work grew quickly. The Order developed. However, Claude passed away at 29, or 31 depending on the source, of pleurisy after founding the order.

After the founder’s death, the order became fully organized. In 1765, the South American missions, in colonies such as China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand (Siam), & India under the support of the Paris Foreign missionaries arrived in Senegal, Africa.

Those in France served in various dioceses or alongside the de Montfont missionaries. This was due to the close friendship between Poullart & Louis de Montfont. The Order had trained 1,300 priests in the years leading up to 1792, when the seminary was suppressed by the French Revolution. The French Revolution saw the Spiritans have their property seized & many were executed or exiled to England, Italy, & Switzerland.

After the French Revolution only 1 member remained, James Bertout. He survived a series of hardships like being shipwrecked on his way to his destined mission in French Guiana, enslaved by the Moors, & a short stay in Senegal (where he had been sold to the English).

On his return to France, he reestablished the Order & continued its work. But he found it VERY hard to recover sufficiently from the effects caused by the Revolution.

In 1841/1842, Francis Liberman founded the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary (a.k.a. Society of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) This society is/was dedicated to serve mainly the emancipated black slaves in the French colonies. Particularly in Africa & the Caribbean.

In 1848, the Holy See asked Liberman to merge his relatively new society with the struggling Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Lieberman was made the 1st Superior General of the united groups. This effectively saving the Spiritan name & legacy.

Liberman’s approach to missionary work was revolutionary from the time. He instructed his missionaries not to “Europeanize” the people they served. Besides the missions in Africa, the society started missions in Mauritius, Reunion, & the Rodriguez Islands. In the Western Hemisphere, they had missions in Trinidad, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, & Amazonia.

The Spiritans arrived in the United States in 1972, fleeing the Kulturkampf (persecution of Catholics) in Germany. They found a home in industrial heartlands, particularly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Order is known in the United States for founding Duquesne University in 1878. This university was originally established to provide an education to the kids of poor immigrants working in the steel mills. It grew into a major research institution. The university’s motto (Spiritus est qui vivificat, “It is the Spirit who gives life”) reflects the order’s charism.

By the early 20th century the organization into the following provinces: France, Ireland, Portugal, United States of America, & Germany.

On December 31, 1961, 20 Spiritans: 19 Belgians & 1 Dutch man, were unalived in Kongolo (in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by government troops during the Katanga Secession Rebellion.

In Rome, on April 24, 1979, Pope John Paul II presided over the beautification ceremony for Jacques-Desire Laval. The 1st member of the Spiritans to be honored.

Today, there are about 3,000 Spiritans serving in over 60 countries. They’re often associated with schools & chaplaincy, & missionary work.

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fr tho no one cares about royalists

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1775063/fr-tho-no-one-cares-about-royalists

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#LaNuitdeVarennes - An enjoyable romp thru the #FrenchRevolution from director #EttoreScola with #MarcelloMastroianni (as #Casanova) #HannaSchygulla + #HarveyKeitel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084423/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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#LaNuitdeVarennes - An enjoyable romp thru the #FrenchRevolution from director #EttoreScola with #MarcelloMastroianni (as #Casanova) #HannaSchygulla + #HarveyKeitel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084423/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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#LaNuitdeVarennes - An enjoyable romp thru the #FrenchRevolution from director #EttoreScola with #MarcelloMastroianni (as #Casanova) #HannaSchygulla + #HarveyKeitel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084423/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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#LaNuitdeVarennes - An enjoyable romp thru the #FrenchRevolution from director #EttoreScola with #MarcelloMastroianni (as #Casanova) #HannaSchygulla + #HarveyKeitel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084423/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 2: Revolutionary

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/commemorating-the-bicentenary-of-the-death-of-jacques-louis-david-2-revolutionary/

It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.

Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.

#frenchrevolution #ExcessDeaths #violence

https://youtu.be/D_5GpnZdod0?feature=shared

It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.

Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.

#frenchrevolution #ExcessDeaths #violence

https://youtu.be/D_5GpnZdod0?feature=shared

It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.

Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.

#frenchrevolution #ExcessDeaths #violence

https://youtu.be/D_5GpnZdod0?feature=shared

It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.

Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.

#frenchrevolution #ExcessDeaths #violence

https://youtu.be/D_5GpnZdod0?feature=shared

It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.

Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.

#frenchrevolution #ExcessDeaths #violence

https://youtu.be/D_5GpnZdod0?feature=shared

"Portrait of a Youth in an Embroidered Vest," Marie Victoire Lemoine, 1785.

Lemoine (1754-1820) was a French Neoclassical painter, one of few women of the time to paint professionally and earn her sole living that way. She did mostly portraits, miniatures, and genre scenes, and while a success at her peak, she died nearly penniless.

The subject of this portrait is unknown, although some sources claim it's Louis Benoit Zamor, a protege of Madame DuBarry. Zamor, sold as a slave, was made a gift to DuBarry and during the French Revolution was a sympathizer to the Jacobins and gave testimony against DuBarry that led to her execution.

Although he was taken in present-day Bangladesh, it's presumed he was part of the Siddi group, or Bengalis of African ancestry. DuBarry had him educated, and he was reportedly quite well-read, with a fondness for the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. But he loathed DuBarry and was happy to throw in his lot with the revolutionaries, although a rival faction took against him and threw him in prison. He was released six weeks later, fled France, and then returned in 1815 after the fall of Napoleon; he also died in 1820.

From the Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL.

#Art #WomenArtists #MarieVictoireLemoine #Zamor #FrenchRevolution #SlavesInArt #EarlyPortraitsOfBlackPeople #Neoclassicism

@toastie @GottaLaff

#History #DonaldTrump #MAGA
#MoscowsAssetGoverningAmerica

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...#SustainableGrowth perspective,) could mostly be seen as brilliant. Almost everything falls into place.

Oh, and just like the co-leaders of the #FrenchRevolution, which famously devoured its children, or the #RussianOligarchs that later on had tea with #Putin or tried to fly without wings, had too much lead intake, etc., the #Technofeudalists aka US billionaires and...

The metre originated in the French Revolution

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-metric-system-measurement-metrology/105302024

#HackerNews #metre #FrenchRevolution #metricSystem #measurement #history

"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"

"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"

https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes

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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China

France has its Zorro, and his name is "la Tulipe Noire (et son cheval Voltaire)" https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/038439-000-A/la-tulipe-noire/ #60th #movie #alaindelon #frenchrevolution #revolution #cinemastodon #cinema

@Bodhioshea @Nochem

People had a common sense of place:
* mountain people are known for their steadfastness;
* in Paris, the moderates and the centrists were busy only in the plain at the time. (On the right bank of the river Seine.)

This opposition was familiar to revolutionaries from a classic text, the ‘Life of Solon’, in which Plutarch describes the political divisions in Athens in these terms: ‘The inhabitants of the mountains strongly supported democracy, those of the plains oligarchy; the inhabitants of the coast formed a third party, in favour of an intermediate form of government…’
(For other readers: i am stressing that ‘democracy’ here means the assembly of the citizens, not a parliament of representatives.)

Left-wing men could be proud of belonging to the mountain as a metaphor of the most difficult policy… if we follow historians Marc Belissa and Yannick Bosc (fr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX03HWtOEa4

#QuartierLatin #RévolutionFrançaise #democracy #parliament #politics #Paris #FrenchRevolution #France

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ What a Merry-Go-Round ✧

What a Merry-Go-Round is the eighteenth collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, made for the Autumn/Winter 2001 season of his eponymous fashion house. The collection drew on imagery of clowns and carnivals, inspired by McQueen's feelings about childhood and his experiences in the fashion industry. The designs were ...

#FrenchRevolution #McQueen #Nosferatu #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Merry-Go-Round

Ich bin nicht der große Musicalfan - ich hab da so ein kindliches #disney Trauma -, aber neben Rocky Horror Show und Sweeney Todd ist Les Miserables eines meiner Liebsten. Auch wenn ich bis heute nicht glauben kann, dass der Regisseur auch Cats verbrochen hat. 🫢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U

#lesmiserables #musical #doyouhearthepeoplesing #russlecrowe
#eddieredmayne #hughjackman #frenchrevolution

#NoKingsDay #washington #DC 2025-02-17 in a #bigbrother 1984 #orwellian #digital #dictatorship, no one would see anything of this #protests, all the big media conglomerates, search engines would censor it :( question: why did those peaceful protesters not try to turn over the gov and storm congress? (just asking, probably because they are intelligent unlike the january 6 rioters)

BUT if #Trump and #republicans keep ignoring LEGITIMATE grievances of #citizens like higher and higher #food and #fuel prices = imho companies using #inflation as excuse to increase prices without transparency = #corruption of the #middleman: when is #DOGE gonna investigate that???

u gonna have a violent #civilwar like #riot at your hand Mr #TrumpRegime

because #citizens then have nothing to lose and the #FrenchRevolution did not go well for the #King

PLEASE THIS TIME, THINK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF SYSTEM U WANT AFTER THE #REVOLUTION :)

1. best as possible #education of the masses very important for #democracy to work ask #Socrates https://infosec.exchange/@Linknation/113918099997688161

2. no more parties: only proven #competent #truthful #honest people can be candidates voted for highest jobs in government

3. make new innovative #finance systems (can be multiple) the current central bank FIAT money is #fascist and not serving the people (#Fascism = fasces = concentration of power in hands of (unelected?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

4. every #citizen should be given small plot of land for free to grow food and build a house on

5. no more stockmarket, all businesses and banks need to be run by proven #competent #responsible actors democratically elected by their employees

#Trump + #Elonmusk START FOCUSING ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE #POOR + #ECONOMY NOW! with smart new ideas of #finance

or face dire catastrophic #disaster #consequences

#demonstrations #protests #protest #usa #politics #politik #trump #musk #elonmusk

#SicSemperTyrannis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_semper_tyrannis

Et pour finir, parce qu'on en a toujours besoin et que c'est toujours d'actualité, un peu de #constitution de 1793...

Article 34 (parce qu'il n'y a pas que l'article 35 sur l'#insurrection)
"Il y a oppression contre le corps social, lorsqu'un seul de ses membres est opprimé, il y a oppression contre chaque membre lorsque le corps social est opprimé."

[Note à moi-même : réinvestir absolument dans un bon #appareilphoto compact]
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#Paris #FrenchRevolution #révolutionfrançaise

J'ai adoré les scénettes révolutionnaires à la gouache de Lesueur ! (les versions Paris Musées semblent plus ternes en couleur que celles exposées 🤔 - peut-être restaurées pour l'occasion. Voir sur #ParisMusées : https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/recherche?keywords=lesueur%20gouache)

J'ai également découvert de chouettes objets conservés aux #archivesnationales (maintenant sur #Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paris_1793-1794_-_Une_ann%C3%A9e_r%C3%A9volutionnaire).

#Paris #FrenchRevolution #révolutionfrançaise

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FARGO

#ClassWar #NewGuillotine #EconomicTerrorism #Discontent #FrenchRevolution #WoodChippers

La mort de Robespierre (2024) [5 min] by Janelle Feng | #USA

CW: Self-harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsL2tzohn4c

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Revolutionaries #Robespierre #FrenchRevolution #CalArts #Doubt

The Brian Thompson assassination seems to have focused the minds of the USA's upper classes on class rebellion, if not actual class warfare. But they still don't get it.

Income and wealth inequality in the USA is as large, or larger, than it has ever been. And it's getting worse. It's worse than pre-revolution 18th-century France.

"It won't happen here. It can't happen here!"

Oh, it will.

"No, this is America. Things will be different!"

Correct. This time, the guillotines will say "Made in China".

#income #wealth #inequality #france #FrenchRevolution #gilded #guillotine #MadeInChina #USA #America #billionaire #billionaires #assassination

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Michael Herter - NAPOLEON: from Revolution to Empire

"Historical Orchestral Symphonic Trailer"

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"Historical Orchestral Symphonic Trailer"

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As today is #BastilleDay , I've put together a series of perspectives on the French Revolution from a working-class postion. Here's Rosa Luxemburg's view on how the French Revolution. She shows that failure of the bourgeois class to realise its own aims, such as economic equality, led to conflict with its erstwhile allies, the propertyless and poor classes of France (a proto-proletariat).

https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/perspectives-on-the-french-revolution-rosa-luxemburg-on-the-year-1793/
#July14 #FrenchRevolution

I'm going to be among the first ones to see the restored grand version of the 1927 Abel Gance's Napoléon tonight at La Seine Musicale - the 7 hours long film is going be accompanied by the live performance of the 250 musicians and singers of the Radio France orchestras and choir!

https://www.maisondelaradioetdelamusique.fr/evenement/napoleon-vu-par-abel-gance

#Napoleon #AbelGance #War #Revolution #FrenchRevolution #Movie #Cinema #Concert #CineConcert #culture #history #music #orchestra #choir #France #RadioFrance #LaSeineMusicale

"Most people expected France's next constitution to be written primarily by Sieyès, an experienced statesman who had already had a hand in two of France's revolutionary constitutions (that of 1791 and the unimplemented Girondist constitution of 1793). Yet Bonaparte, who was expected to act as the most junior partner in this provisional government, [put] his propagandists to work [to obtain] a centralized republic."
Story: https://www.worldhistory.org/French_Consulate/ @histodons 🧶

#coup #oligarchy #Consulate #FrenchRevolution #Bonaparte #Napoléon #farCentre #France #history #Republic

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."