"Théroigne de Méricourt: ‘The fatal beauty of the revolution’" Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Apr 2015 10:03 p.m. PST |
"If the Austrian Emperor's interrogator, François de Blanc, hadn't already heard so much about the revolutionary prisoner, Théroigne de Méricourt, it's unlikely a man like him would have believed much of the story she spun him. Stripped of the myth and legend that already surrounded the key events of her life, even the version of her story that could be more or less accepted as being ‘true' had an implausible air to it, as if it had been spliced together from the more interesting parts of several different people's lives. But perched in the chilly, remote and echoingly vast medieval mountaintop fortres of Kufstein, over 6 months in 1791 a peculiar thing happened. As the days went by in this strange, intimate isolation, the arch civil servant de Blanc was starting to not only believe Théroigne de Méricourt, he was starting to like her. Intrigued by the details of her extraordinary life, charmed by her passion and intensity, and moved by her experience of the Revolution, which reflected all of its excitements, contradictions and fickle cruelties, de Blanc became the strongest advocate for the freedom of his captive…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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