Charthur

these are amazing

playing with linework and shapes so have a very smug (and fashionable!) looking Barère + annoyed Collot & Billaud

Sevika as fem crocodile… Where are my op and arcane conjoined besties at

At the Duplays’, Robespierre’s life and surroundings were comfortable, respectable, eminently bourgeois; and he was pampered by his adoring hosts. He did not, when fleeing rumoured reprisals, seek shelter in the faubourg Saint-Antoine; he did not seek out a hovel in the bowels of Paris, where lay much of his popular support. The Duplay home was suitable to one of his position, with its respectable neighbourhood, vine-covered walls, quiet courtyard, and proper owners. He stayed on until his death.

David P. Jordan, The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre [x]

I was itching to do this

Later French Cavalry (Hussar) Uniforms

"The hussars never halt, they ride their horses at full speed, breaking through everything that's in front of them". 

François Paulin Dalerac

A bit of a return to form.

From "Napoleonic Uniforms Volume I"

the way i used to judge hamilton fans for shipping real people

Hello! Can I request Vergniaud with a bouquet of peony roses?

this handsome fellow!!!

fouche and collot?

they’re discussing the logistics of blowing people up

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

For a new world would come / Every once in a while