The French and Haitian Revolutions are one of the most fascinating and momentous events in what passes for western history, and yet the way liberals treat these subjects is just downright atrocious

While the horrific counter-revolution of 1776 is glorified, the French Revolution is treated like some ugly step-child they'd rather keep locked in the basement

I'm sick of it, I just want to learn about a cool-ass revolution without power-worshipping liberals throwing a conniption

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    10 months ago

    P.S.: speaking of musk-ovites, I remember reading that Napoleon would send letters to Josephine that were like, "I'll be home in two weeks, don't bathe between now and then, I want you to stink for me when I get back."

    Funny, I saw an article about this just this morning. Sadly, probably a myth: https://slate.com/culture/2023/11/napoleon-movie-josephine-sex-smells-body-odor.html

    • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      I feel like there are lengthy quotes from his letters in the book.... don't have it on hand to confirm tho

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        10 months ago

        “Having read all of Napoleon’s letters to Joséphine, I’ve never come across it,” Philip Dwyer, a professor at the University of Newcastle who has authored multiple biographies of Napoleon, told me. “His letters were intimate, and they did contain sexual allusions, but nothing as graphic.”

        • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          my memory is owned

          def a lot of letter discussion in the book tho. guess my recollection was apocryphal, or maybe he talks about the myth of that being their content and Streisand-Mandela effected it into my brain

          • Wertheimer [any]
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            10 months ago

            The James Joyce fart letters are real, if it's any consolation: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/02/james-joyces-love-letters-dirty-little-fuckbird/ (NSFW)