I smell more abject geekery coming up.

So this has been a pretty shitty week. What's the best way to turn a shitty week around? That's right, go to the UMD College Park library right in the middle of finals week and divide my time between perusing obscure and shiny French history documents and basking in schadenfreude at all the stressed-out college students surrounding me.

Given the presence of said stressed-out college students, this could go pear-shaped faster than the revolution of 1830, but as long as there are trial records in it for me I don't really give a shit. So heigh-ho, off for a little jaunt around the Beltway tomorrow afternoon to take a look at UMD's copy of Révolutions du XIXe siècle.

And with that resolution made, I am going to bed.

I smell more abject geekery coming up.

So this has been a pretty shitty week. What's the best way to turn a shitty week around? That's right, go to the UMD College Park library right in the middle of finals week and divide my time between perusing obscure and shiny French history documents and basking in schadenfreude at all the stressed-out college students surrounding me.

Given the presence of said stressed-out college students, this could go pear-shaped faster than the revolution of 1830, but as long as there are trial records in it for me I don't really give a shit. So heigh-ho, off for a little jaunt around the Beltway tomorrow afternoon to take a look at UMD's copy of Révolutions du XIXe siècle.

And with that resolution made, I am going to bed.

OMSB

Am in the UMD library. OMG OMG OMG, drowning in shiny here. I knew Révolutions du XIXe siècle was twelve volumes long, but I didn't know that each volume was a goddamn brick. And and and, they have thirty-one volumes of Napoleon's correspondances, and these giant tomes of records from the Committee of Public Safety, and--

*asplodes*

Time for me to get typing here. O_O And and and--

oh. wireless only works here if you're a student. guess I'll be saving this draft and posting my squee later.

--many hours later--

3 hours at a UMD parking meter: $2.25
Parking ticket when those 3 hours are flagrantly exceeded: $15
Gasoline expended while driving lost around College Park: ~$10

UMD library? Fucking priceless.

My week just got so much better.

OMSB

Am in the UMD library. OMG OMG OMG, drowning in shiny here. I knew Révolutions du XIXe siècle was twelve volumes long, but I didn't know that each volume was a goddamn brick. And and and, they have thirty-one volumes of Napoleon's correspondances, and these giant tomes of records from the Committee of Public Safety, and--

*asplodes*

Time for me to get typing here. O_O And and and--

oh. wireless only works here if you're a student. guess I'll be saving this draft and posting my squee later.

--many hours later--

3 hours at a UMD parking meter: $2.25
Parking ticket when those 3 hours are flagrantly exceeded: $15
Gasoline expended while driving lost around College Park: ~$10

UMD library? Fucking priceless.

My week just got so much better.

Révolutions du XIXe siècle #1, plus random Wiki stuff.

General resource for Les Mis fic writers: wiki.fr has articles, by year, for notable (and occasionally trifling) events in French history; the ones for the 1820s are pretty sparse, but starting in 1830 they are chock full of what would have been current events for the characters, with a heavy focus on politics--particularly revolutionary politics--and secondary focus on the literary world, with plenty about what Hugo was up to at the time. Check it out. 1830 | 1831 | 1832. And, just for fun, In the year 1817.

Edit: Also, I found maps. Shiny, high-resolution maps.
Lots of them.
Searchable by street name!
Super-hi-res. (PDF)
And, partially related: Nomenclature des voies database main page.


And now the beginning of more transcriptions, which I can't even pretend are directly related to Les Mis anymore. To start things off, a publication from the Société des Amis du Peuple which followed directly on the heels of the émeutes of June 14-17, 1831. I'm also working on typing up the manifesto of the Amis du Peuple, which is significantly longer; I have the first two sections done, but the third and last is quite a bit longer. Visitors can't check out anything from the UMD library, so I'll have to hole myself up there this weekend, finish that, and maybe knock out part of the Procès des Quinze.

The language on this particular one is straightforward enough that I'll probably end up translating it soon, but just as a heads-up, I probably won't be translating everything from this series. The manifesto, for example, has far more convoluted prose, so unless some kind soul volunteers to translate it, it will probably remain en français because I am too lazy to wade through it.

Any typos that might pop up are mine, except a couple random quirks of orthography that belong to whatever anonymous Ami wrote this.

( À l'opinion publique... )

Révolutions du XIXe siècle #1, plus random Wiki stuff.

General resource for Les Mis fic writers: wiki.fr has articles, by year, for notable (and occasionally trifling) events in French history; the ones for the 1820s are pretty sparse, but starting in 1830 they are chock full of what would have been current events for the characters, with a heavy focus on politics--particularly revolutionary politics--and secondary focus on the literary world, with plenty about what Hugo was up to at the time. Check it out. 1830 | 1831 | 1832. And, just for fun, In the year 1817.

Edit: Also, I found maps. Shiny, high-resolution maps.
Lots of them.
Searchable by street name!
Super-hi-res. (PDF)
And, partially related: Nomenclature des voies database main page.


And now the beginning of more transcriptions, which I can't even pretend are directly related to Les Mis anymore. To start things off, a publication from the Société des Amis du Peuple which followed directly on the heels of the émeutes of June 14-17, 1831. I'm also working on typing up the manifesto of the Amis du Peuple, which is significantly longer; I have the first two sections done, but the third and last is quite a bit longer. Visitors can't check out anything from the UMD library, so I'll have to hole myself up there this weekend, finish that, and maybe knock out part of the Procès des Quinze.

The language on this particular one is straightforward enough that I'll probably end up translating it soon, but just as a heads-up, I probably won't be translating everything from this series. The manifesto, for example, has far more convoluted prose, so unless some kind soul volunteers to translate it, it will probably remain en français because I am too lazy to wade through it.

Any typos that might pop up are mine, except a couple random quirks of orthography that belong to whatever anonymous Ami wrote this.

( À l'opinion publique... )