revolution-and-football:iadorepigeons: rbzpr:Georges Auguste Couthon: A neglected memory After the
revolution-and-football:iadorepigeons: rbzpr: Georges Auguste Couthon: A neglected memory After the death of Couthon, his portrait was burned in Orcet, and his name was struck from the records of the municipality. Associated with Robespierre and Saint-Just under the designation of « triumvirs » and accused like them of a counter-revolutionary intrigue, he was consequently partially rehabilitated at the same time as them, but never shared their notoriety. He has not, like them, passed directly from the common grave to the legend, black or gold. Less dazzling than them, less tragic, too, certainly more ordinary, he would undoubtedly have deserved it nevertheless. In love with the absolute but pragmatic, a tireless worker despite his illness, just in a time where injustice sometimes turned into madness, he had fought the same battle they and has been their friend « in life and death ». Without regretting that one has not placed by the side of the Incorruptible and of the Archangel, for example, the Irreducible or the Indomitable, nicknames which would have suited him, it is nevertheless fair to remember the place which he held. Okumaya devam et I love you Couthon UNDERRATED REVOLUTIONARY -- source link
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