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tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-09-22 01:41 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-09-22 01:41 am
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Mmmm, barricades.
Ugh, I'd post more except that this upcoming week is homework hell week and I just spent nine hours straight in either the computer lab or the library. At least the French paper is out of the way now and I'm not, strictly speaking, behind in any of my classes.
I did get the chance earlier in the week to flip through a book in the library called Carnet de Barricades, which is full of quotes from eyewitness accounts of 1830, 1848, 1851, 1871, and assorted minor revolts. (Nothing on 1832 that I saw, except a poem by Verlaine that mentions Saint-Merry.) Lots of Hugo and Dumas, predictably, and it's organized thematically: things like pre-insurrection unrest, the strategy of building a barricade, fraternization with the National Guard, quotes about people doing silly things, and some very grim chapters about death, defeat, prison, and firing squads. Lots of firing squads. Chapters that would probably inspire horrible Enjolras/Grantaire death poetry if I posted them. And at least one account of a pretty blond boy leading a band of revolutionaries in 1830.
I did get the chance earlier in the week to flip through a book in the library called Carnet de Barricades, which is full of quotes from eyewitness accounts of 1830, 1848, 1851, 1871, and assorted minor revolts. (Nothing on 1832 that I saw, except a poem by Verlaine that mentions Saint-Merry.) Lots of Hugo and Dumas, predictably, and it's organized thematically: things like pre-insurrection unrest, the strategy of building a barricade, fraternization with the National Guard, quotes about people doing silly things, and some very grim chapters about death, defeat, prison, and firing squads. Lots of firing squads. Chapters that would probably inspire horrible Enjolras/Grantaire death poetry if I posted them. And at least one account of a pretty blond boy leading a band of revolutionaries in 1830.