Childhood is idolizing Danton, adulthood is realizing that Robespierre

>>2820702
Patricianhood is realizing that Robespierre and Danton were nuanced individuals, that Danton did not have the raw ability to actually establish a secure state, and that Robespierre went insane at some point before the terror. Sane Robespierre was a genius and idealist, Insane Robespierre was a Psychopath and Idealist.

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>>2820702
maturity is realizing that Edmund Burke predicted it all before it even happened.

>>2820813
Third post best post.

>>2820781
What would you have done in his situation? Foreign armies invading your country and the monarchists in your capital just waiting for a chance to revolt.

Jaques Roux should have won.

>When I finishedCarlyle's French Revolutionin 1871, I was aGirondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently– being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment... and now I lay the book down once more, and recognize that I am a Sansculotte! And not a pale, characterless Sansculotte, but a Marat.[92][93]
>t. Mark Twain

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>>2822974
my man

Why would the fuck would anyone ever idolise Danton? The Girondins trashed the economy, started wars they weren't willing to fight, and drove half the country into revolt.

>>2820813
Muh nigga

>>2823695
Because they were moderates and the only other alternative to the Jacobins, who were seizing more and more power by stirring the population up into a fervour about counter-revolutionaries that probably didn't exist outsite of the whites, and expelling the left-most members of the general assembly they could find; who were inevitably the Girondins after everyone else had been incarcerated.

The lesser of two evils; even if you hate the Girondins. And why would you? They were the next in line to get a serve of hot Robespierre semen after Marat got stabbed by some loopy bitch who happened to like them, causing the Montagnards to chimp the fuck out and accuse them of being monarchists, despite the fact they had campaigned for the removal of the monarchy in the first place.

>>2820813
3rdpbp

>>2820702
Oldhood is realizing that Louis XVIII was the right guy and did nothing wrong

Daily reminder that Robespierre did nothing wrong

>>2824309
>moderates fucking shit up is better than radicals not fucking shit coz they are radicals :((

>>2822974
this

they both look like koalas

>>2823695
Danton is one of the biggest player France ever known. Robespierre was so fucking jealous of him.
Danton never prepared his speeches or wrote them, he went there with his hands in his pockets and trashed everybody. That's why a lot of people like him, an ugly motherfucker but with charisma of an Emperor