#the french revolution
(btw ive used some photo as references,these are practices)
‘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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Here’s another part of my ’Cool books I own’ series to bridge over the time I’m in Germany. This book is a sticker album from 1933 about historical personalities, which was released by a cigarette company. It covers historical personalities and the events of their time, from early renaissance humanism to the 19th century, and contains loads of neat little portraits, which came in matchboxes and were collected by grandfather back then. Here are two pages from the chapter on the french revolution and If I ever get too bored and get my hands on a good scanner, I might scan all of them.
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THROUGH THE ERAS:the french revolution
the french revolution (also called the revolution of 1789) was a period of immense sociopolitical upheaval in france, resulting in an overthrow of the absolute monarchy as it was replaced by a constitutional monarchy.
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