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Louis Antoine Saint-Just

Those who would make revolutions in the world, those who want to do good in this world must sleep on

About Me

I was born...

And then I died--guillotined at the ripe old age of 26. But I made my mark upon the world, the one and only original Angel of Death.

I condemn the dust of which I am made, this dust that speaks to you now. It can be persecuted, it can be brought to death. But I challenge the world to take from me that part of me which will live through the centuries and survive in the skies.

Onto the usual biographical facts we go:

Before the Revolution:
I was born 25 August 1767 in the town Decize located in the province formerly known as Nivernais in France. My father was a retired calvary officer and my mother the daughter of a notary. (Some say I had nobility in my blood, but that is not true; my father won l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis.) He died when I was around ten years old, and after that I became what's considered an unruly child to say the least. Bah, I never liked my family, anyway. Instead, her wish was for me to enter the priesthood! (If I was growing up in this era, I would have definately been forced to take that mind control drug you people refer to as "Ritalin".) Well, I had other plans and in '86 I ran away from home with the family silver. The fact that my girlfriend and love of my life, Therese, married some noob of "better birth" only compounded my distress. My dear dear mother then had me tracked down and thrown into prison for wayward youth for six months. At least I got in enough gambling and fornicating to last a life time before that. In prison, I wrote a satirical mildly pornographic poem, Organt au Vatican, which I later published anonymously in '89. I got out of prison by agreeing to attend law school at Rheims which was notorious for selling degrees. Everyone went to law school at that time. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere...

The Revolution:

I'll fill the rest of this crap out later. Being dead is not nearly as painfull as being alive, but it's just as lonely and much more boring. Google me in the meantime.

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My Interests

Revolutions, political science, rhetoric, philosophy, ancient Greek & Roman history and mythology, the military, poetry, singing, brooding, thinking, throwing perfectly good hats into fires, fashion

I'd like to meet:

Fellow dead people lost in the machine, true friends of the Revolution, people who'd rather live in the 18th century, fangirls who can behave themselves *ahem*, dandies, historians, poets, musicians, narcissists, dreamers...

Music:

The Clash, Nirvana, Italian opera

Movies:

Taxi Driver, Clockwork Orange, Fellini movies

Television:

There's never anything good on anymore. The nightly meetings at the Committee, riding into battle, and oh yeah, changing the world are just more entertaining than watching a bunch of dumb whores complain about their dumb whore life.

Books:

Plutarch, Rousseau, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Voltaire. Nothing by that ridiculous fop Fabre d'Aglantine or that aristocrat traitor Desmoulins. Camus, Babeuf, Marx, Engels, Kundera

Heroes:

My friend Robespierre, J.J. Rousseau, Karl Marx, Patton, and true patriots.

My Blog

Links to speeches & other writings

Letter to Jean-Louis-Marie Villain Daubigny (in English) On the trial of Louis XVI (in English) On the fate of Louis XVI 2nd speech (in English) On education (in English) Against D...
Posted by Louis Antoine Saint-Just on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:03:00 PST