Posted on 06/24/2024 2:00:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Pastel painter Rosalie Filleul (English Wikipedia entry | the far more detailed French) was guillotined on this date in 1794, during the Paris Terror. The prodigy daughter of a Paris, young Rosalie Boquet — as she was born — exhibited several times in the 1770s when she was barely out of her teens.
Famous for her beauty as well as her brushstrokes, she married into a comfortable sinecure held by the Superintendant of the Chateau de la Muette. As this fine post by history writer Melanie Clegg describes, Filleul cultivated an Enlightenment artist’s friendships with both revolution (Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait she painted) and ancien regime (Marie Antoinette, who commissioned more canvasses — like this one, of children of the Comte d’Artois).
Moved like many whom the Revolution would come to devour by hope in its possibilities, she declined to flee France. She came within a month of surviving the crucible but her relationship with the beheaded king and queen played fatally against her in the end.....
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Great post and a reminder of the nature of the “French Revolution” - intimidation by mob rule.
Liberty Equality Fraternity Oh My.
No doubt.
It looks like the charge which led to her execution is that she was “wasting candles”. Did I read that right?
“She came within a month of surviving the crucible but her relationship with the beheaded king and queen played fatally against her in the end.”
Yes, I think so, but not sure if that’s some term of art of the Revolution or what.
The French Revolution is like the Khmer Rouge, it really shows how people can go totally nuts, and nobody stops them until they’ve butchered untold numbers of innocent people. Rwanda is like that too.
What gets me is how proud the French still are about their Revolution. It’s like they totally forget what happened. And then it was Napoleon and centuries of unrest and uncertainty (hey, I’m no French expert, if I’m wrong about any of this, I’m sorry. These are my impressions.) which continues right to this week.
Makes me wonder what the 21st century equivalent of Wasting Candles will be.
The French Revolution was humanity at its worst .
Leftist thugs going on murderous rampages.
Unfortunately, all too many leftist atrocities followed the first one…
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