#french republic
‘Tis the season for French revolution couples! From left to right:
Jean-Christophe and Xandrine are the main characters in my French Revolution romantic historical WIP, The Captive Heiress. In the middle we have Maximilien Robespierre and his fiancee, Éléonore Duplay (who also show up in my novel). And last but not least, we have Saint-Just and his married childhood friend,Thérèse Gellé, who may have had a covert liaison (La Jacobine lays out the evidence, such as it is, here). There’s no portraits left of of Thérèse, but Lenotre describes her as “fair and freckled” in his “Romances of the French Revolution,” so I ran with that.
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