Some primary sources

sieclesetcieux:

anotherhumaninthisworld:

I plan to add more whenever I find more.

Historie Parlamentaire de la Révolution Française ou Journal des Assemblées Nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1815

Volume 1 (May 1789)
Volume 2 (June-September 1789)
Volume 3 (September-December 1789)
Volume 4 (December 1789-March 1790)
Volume 5 (March-May 1790)
Volume 6 (May-August 1790)
Volume 7?
Volume 8 (November 1790-February 1791)
Volume 9 (February-May 1791)
Volume 10 (May-July 1791)
Volume 11 (July-September 1791)
Volume 12 (September-December 1791)
Volume 13 (January-March 1792)
Volume 14 (April-June 1792)
Volume 15 (June-July 1792)
Volume 16 (July-August 1792)
Volume 17 (August-September 1792)
Volume 18 (September 1792)
Volume 19 (September-October 1792)
Volume 20 (October-November 1792)
Volume 21 (November-December 1792)
Volume 22 (December 1792-January 1793)
Volume 23 (January 1793)
Volume 24 (February-March 1793)
Volume 25 (March-April 1793)
Volume 26 (April-May 1793)
Volume 27 (May 1793)
Volume 28 (July-August 1793)
Volume 29 (September-October 1793)
Volume 30 (October-December 1793)
Volume 31 (November 1793-March 1794)
Volume 32 (March-May 1794)
Volume 33 (May-July 1794)
Volume 34 (July-August 1794)

Recueil des actes du comité de salut public
Volume 1 (August 12 1792-January 21 1793)
Volume 2 (January 22-March 31 1793)
Volume 3 (April 1-May 5 1793)
Volume 4 (6 May-18 June 1793)
Volume 5 (19 June-15 August 1793)
Volume 6 (15 August-21 September 1793)
Volume 7 (22 September-24 October 1793)
Volume 8 (25 October-26 November 1793)
Volume 9 (27 November-31 December 1793)
Volume 10 (1 January-8 February 1794)
Volume 11 (9 February-15 March 1794)
Volume 12 (16 March-22 April 1794)
Volume 13 (23 April-28 May 1794)
Volume 14 (29 May-7 July 1794)
Volume 15 (8 July-9 August 1794)

Recueil de documents pour l’histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris
Volume 1 (1789-1790)
Volume 2 (January-July 1791)
Volume 3 (July 1791-June 1792)
Volume 4 (June 1792-January 1793)
Volume 5 (January 1793-March 1794)
Volume 6 (March-November 1794)

Histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris: avec le journal de ses actes.
Volume 1 
Volume 2 
Volume 3 
Volume 4 
Volume 5 

Papiers inédits trouves chez Robespierre, Saint-Just, Payan etc
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

Oeuvres complètes de Robespierre
Volume 1 (Robespierre à Arras)
Volume 2 (Les œuvres judiciaires)
Volume 3 is the correspondence, listed below
Volume 4 (Le defenseur de la Constitution)
Volume 5 (lettres à ses comettras)
Volume 6 (speeches 1789-1790)
Volume 7 (speeches January-September 1791)
Volume 8 (speeches October 1791-September 1792)
Volume 9 (speeches September 1792-June 27 1793)
Volume 10 (speeches June 27 1793-July 27 1794)

Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (not the same as Oeuvres completés)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

Oeuvres de Jerome Pétion
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4

Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Just
Volume 1
Volume 2

Works by Desmoulins

La France Libre (1789)

Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens (1789)

Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789-1791)
Volume 1 (number 1-13)
Volume 2 (number 14-26)
Volume 3 (number 27-39)
Volume 4 (number 40-52)
Volume 5 (number 53-65)
Volume 6 (number 66-79)
Volume 7 (number 80-86)

La Tribune des Patriots (1792) (all numbers)

Le Vieux Cordelier (1793-1794) (all numbers)

Jean Pierre Brissot démasqué (1792)

Histoire des Brissotins (1793)

Correspondences

Correspondance de Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre (1926)

Correspondance de George Couthon (1872)

Correspondance inédit de Camille Desmoulins (1836)

Some more Desmoulins letters can be found in Camille Desmoulins and his wife — passages from the history of the dantonists (1876) by Jules Claretie, particulary pages 463-469

Billuad-Varennes — mémoires et correspondance

Memoirs

Memoirs of Bertrand Barère
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4

Memoirs of Élisabeth Lebas
In French
In English

Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1835)
In French
In English

Memoirs of Joseph Fouché
Volume 1 (English)
Volume 2 (French)

Mémoires de Brissot (1877)

Mémoires inédits de Pétion et mémoires de Buzot et Barbaroux (1866)

Memoirs of Barras — member of the Directorate (1899)

Free books

Danton (1978) by Norman Hampson (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Robespierre (2014) by Hervé Leuwers (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Collot d’Herbois — légendes noires et Révolution (1995) by Michel Biard 

Choosing Terror (2014) by Marisa Linton

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (2015) by Timothy Tackett

Augustin: the younger Robespierre by (2011) by Mary-Young

Journaliste, sans-culotte et thermidorien: le fils de Fréron, 1754-1802, d’après des documents inédits (1909) by Raoul Arnaud

Resources shared by other tumblr users (thank you all very much!!!)

Resources shared by @iadorepigeons

Resources shared by @georgesdamnton 

Resources shared by @rbzpr:

Fabre d’Eglantine resources shared by @edgysaintjust

My own translations

Lucile Desmoulins’ diary (1788, 1789, 1790, 1792-1793)

Charlotte Robespierre et ses amis (1961)

Laponneraye on the life of Charlotte Robespierre (1835)

Abbé Proyart on the childhood of Robespierre (1795)

Philippeaux’s prison letters to his wife (1794)

Regulations for the internal exercises of the College of Louis-le-Grand (1769)

Regulations for law students at Louis-le-Grand (1782)

Instructions for the “quarter masters” of Louis-le-Grand

Belongings left by Danton, Fabre and Desmoulins after their arrest

Letters from Robespierre’s father

Robespierre family timeline

Correction on this one on Billaud-Varenne: it’s not the complete memoirs + most of it is a biography of BV by Alfred Bégis + there’s one on Collot too. This one here seems to have a lot more (includes two volumes):

Mémoires de Billaud-Varennes, ex-conventionnel; écrits au Port-au-Prince en 1818, contenant la relation de ses voyages et aventures dans le Mexique, depuis 1805 jusqu'en 1817; avec des notes historiques et un précis de l'insurrection américaine, depuis son origine jusqu'en 1820, published in 1821

A Few More Free Books I Found*:

Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot (1824)

Le Puy-de-Dôme en 1793 et le Proconsulat de Couthon (1877) by Francisque Mège

Le procès des Dantonistes, d'après les documents, précédé d'une introduction historique. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution française (1879) edited by Dr. Jean François Eugène Robinet

Robert Lindet, député à l'Assemblée législative et à la Convention, membre du Comité de salut public, ministre des finances : notice biographique (1899) by Amand Montier

Prieur de la Côte-d'Or (1900) by Paul Gaffarel

Oeuvres littéraires de Hérault de Séchelles (1907) edited by Emile Dard

Un épicurien sous la Terreur; Hérault de Séchelles (1759-1794); d'après des documents inédits (1907) by Emile Dard

Twelve Who Ruled (1941) by R. R. Palmer (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Bertrand Barère: A Reluctant Terrorist (1963) by Leo Gershoy (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Saint-Just : sa politique et ses missions (1976) by Jean-Pierre Gross (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

*there are SO MANY SOURCES available on Archive dot org, I’m presently going insane over all this knowledge. All the Thermidorian pamphlets and more that I dont think I ever saw/found while doing my M.A. thesis! Wow!

N.B. I sorted the books chronologically after giving up on trying to make my list into a division between primary and secondary because way too many overlap (memoirs-biographies) and some are not the greatest quality (Mège on Couthon). The only truly academic book that respects modern academic standards here is Jean-Pierre Gross’ on Saint-Just. Leo Gershoy’s method of quoting sources is appalling (and barely existent) and R. R. Palmer is… a complicated case - very entertaining and engaging book, but not the most academic/scientific and certainly not unbiased. Unless those are the academic/scientific standards for the Anglophone historians…

soljua:

reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m socially exhausted
- i don’t have the time right now
- i don’t know how to reply
- i have a bad memory and got distracted
- i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise

not reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m ignoring you just because
- i hate you
- i’m fed up with you
- i don’t want to be your friend anymore

geopsych:

Sunrise at the lake, early July 2018.

lilyinthesnow:

aqueerkettleofish:

mod2amaryllis:

lasrina:

bundibird:

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flouryhedgehog:

angelwing430:

I have to laugh at the folks in the notes claiming this is fake because “no 2-yr old is that advanced”. My guys, I work at a daycare almost exclusively with 2-3 year olds and let me tell you some of the wild shit I heard this last week alone,

“Uhhh, i ASSUME we’re going to the playground soon??” -2.5 year old girl

“[3 year old boy] pushed me because he doesn’t have a manners.” -2 yr old girl

“Did you spill your water?” “No no no no it’s not a concern” -2 yr old boy (while running away, dripping wet)

Kids are hilarious and smarter than you think

nicehatgeorgia:

I don’t think I even told you guys about the six months he spent saying “fuck” instead of “truck.”

nicehatgeorgia:

Came up to me the other day, the middle of his pants totally soaked, and said “mama, I’m having a situation called ‘I peed in my pants.’”

nicehatgeorgia:

Upon being served 1% milk for the first time, instead of his regular 2%: “is this water?”

Me: “no, it’s milk”

Kid: “but are you sure?”

nicehatgeorgia:

Today we were walking along and he asked me “How many Octobers is it today?” I told him it was the 21st. 

He tried a bite of his hot soup at dinner and made a face and said “Mama, my soup is a little too temperature for me.”

nicehatgeorgia:

The two year-old is now a solid two and a half. Just now, he was sitting on the couch playing with his pretend flip phone and he frowned and said “for gods sake. My battery is empty.”

The other day at breakfast I asked him if he was going to eat any more of his oatmeal and he said “no, I think I’m just gonna move on with my life.”

If you don’t have a lot of interactions with young children:

• Kids are smarter than you think
• Six months makes a really big difference when that is 1/5 of the total time you’ve been alive

All this, and also, they can tell you lots about their favorite things. My 2 year old nephew can tell you all about Star Wars (the 8 movies he’s seen at least) and loves going out of his way to bring up how Anakin was good and bad and good again when he died. Trust me, little kids learn and mimic and reenact all the things they get attached to.
Also, he named his first fish Jengo Fett, and all following fish Boba Fett, so juries still out on how much he understands clones.

Kids pick up the language that’s used around and to them. Mannerisms too. They are tiny, efficient mimics and it will come out at the WEIRDEST times. Young kids will ABSOLUTELY say all the stuff listed here.

My cousin was somewhere between two and three, and I’d just arrived at her house, and she’s animatedly telling me a story of some kind, and I listen as I make my way through the house, get to the couch, and kick my shoes off. She stops dead in the middle of her sentence, puts her hands on her hips, levels me with a glare the likes of which I haven’t seen since, and goes, “WHAT are they doing there? Do you think the box at the front door is for DECORATION?”

Her mum, standing in the kitchen and watching all this, was GOBSMACKED. Apparently she said that exact phrase more often than she realised, and her kid had picked it up verbatim and started using it on unsuspecting guests (me).

(I got up and put my shoes in the box at the front door immediately)

My family’s lore includes the time my mother offhandedly said to Cousin’s son–who was maybe five–that Cousin’s wife certainly did have strong opinions about some minor thing, and the kid let out a sigh and said, in the driest and flattest and most world-weary tone you’ve ever heard, “Tell me about it.”

once i was helping with a class of 3 year olds and during drawing time one girl asked for a lion, specifically a lioness. i drew it and she just looked in silence so thinking she wanted a more liony lion i was like “do you want me to draw a boy lion next?” and she gives me this 🤨ass affronted look and says “umm she doesn’t NEED a man.”

Kids will do three things reliably:

1. Repeat what they’ve heard, incorrectly and/or in the wrong context, to comic effect
2. Repeat what they’ve heard in exactly the correct context, which is somehow even funnier
3. Casually knock you on your ass with some offhand, but utterly profound, original statement

Absolutely. My niece started speaking in full sentences at NINE MONTHS. She hasn’t shut up since and she’s 20 years old now. When she was 14 months old she and I were having a full conversation in the store and a woman went “Oh my god, how old is she!” I told her and she flipped shit. I didn’t understand at the time that she was so advanced lol I just thought it was normal. We never baby talked her so she didn’t talk like a baby. She was like a teeny adult. Anyways it is definitely possible for tiny children to do any of the above mentioned things.

All my family say that when I was three I was sitting on the floor with two dolls so my uncle asked if I am happy playing with Sotie and Lotie [my imaginary friends at the time] to which I responded “Can’t you SEE? I am playing with dolls, Sotie and Lotie are in that corner having a conversation!” and nearly gave him a panic attack. He brought it up again to which he claim I said “of course have lives outside of me”

angryje:

Les Misérables (Egyptian adaptation) (1978) - Dir. Atef Salim

Marius is so cute here!

Both Egyptian les mis movies are available for free so I’ll watch them once i get time

Les Misérables (Egyptian adaptation) (1978) - Dir. Atef Salim

Les misérables (Egyptian adaptation) (1943) - dir. Kamal Sileem

angryje:

Apparently there’s an Egyptianized les misérables adaptation! How come I never watched it or even knew it existed until my parents mentioned it now?

There’s TWO old movies???

myjetpack:

ALT

My cartoon for yesterday’s @guardian books.