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"He has a mind of fire and a heart of ice."- Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac on Saint-Just
"It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice and as bold as fire." - Bossuet on Enjolras
Because in the Convention, we know Enjolras would have been Saint-Just.
SJ is based on the Prudhon portrait, obviously.
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*screams*
*double screams*
*screams xINFINITY*
THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE
I HAVE BOTH ENJOLRAS AND SAINT-JUST ON MY BEDROOM WALL ABOVE MY BED, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME PERMISSION TO PRINT THIS OFF AND ADD IT TO THE COLLECTION? REALLY THOUGH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I LOVE YOU
*expires*
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Saint-Just AND Enjolras? In one painting?! *le squeak*
That awkward moment when you fangirl twice as much....
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Chuckling at that! Thank you
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Oh, goodness...
The beauty of this is...
FFFFFffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
I can't. ;___;
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SAINT-JUST. Oooooh.
Someday, I shall know just as much as you do about all of this. Someday.
(hard, though, when all you've got is the public library that's hard-pressed to supply even a book on the French Revolution in general, much less a specific person.)
But wow, Saint-Just looks just like he does in the portrait.
...But I feel, somehow, that Enjolras was more humane than Saint-Just...or is it just me?
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Oh, I'm still learning all the time as well, and sometimes feel so inadequate among my more knowledgeable friends. And yes, I believe Enjolras is more humane than S-J. Although I do believe he would have voted for the death of the king.
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Ha, yes. And it makes me feel rather sad sometimes because I haven't got many friends who enjoy talking about such things (or even know enough about said things to talk about them in the first place; my best friend, for all her brilliance, can't bring herself to like and/or remember much at all of history in general, so whenever I start gushing about a particular she'll just kind of nod and say "Suuure."), so I never have a chance to learn more and discuss more and debate more. Gosh, I'd love to debate more. I'd probably not be very good, but it'd still be fun. And then I'd improve, too. As of now, I just read stuff online and subsequently feel like an uninformed idiot.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. Definitely the death of the king - Enjolras seems to have that radical idealism - but more humane. I mean, I hope he wouldn't be quite as enthusiastic with sending completely innocent people to the guillotine. Although I can see him, in his idealism, glossing over the (lack of) humanity and sending perhaps more people than necessary, for the perusal of said idealism. Sort of like in the brick when he insists on killing that one soldier. You drew that scene, didnβt you? That was Enjolrasβs βemo tear momentβ, as you phrased it. XD
Ah, Iβm just ranting nowβ¦
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I should comment it long time ago. I love this picture ^^
I like the mirror effect! Nice concept
And one thing has always fascinated me: Why did Hugo choose Saint-Just to base a figure of Enjolras on? I know it supposed to be a tribute to each young revolutionary that died during revolution, but they had much more in common. It's curious that from the range of revolutionary figures it was S-J who intrugued people mostly, although he was revolutionary of secondary importance!
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Enjolras represents the logic of Revolution, so I suppose if we look at how Saint-Just constructed his speeches - e.g. his arguments of the execution of the king - it does make sense. There are some differences - e.g. Enjolras would not define those who didn't join the revolution as external to the Republic and therefore bereft of its protection, as he has a more overarching view of humanity as all his brothers.
Have you read Hugo's "Quatrevingt-treize"? It gives valuable insight into how he saw the Revolution. Marat, Robespierre and Danton all appear as characters, and while Saint-Just doesn't have a speaking role, he is referred to as an example of one extreme end of the revolutionary spectrum. And Enjolras is extreme.
Curiously, while Enjolras with his angelic good looks fits in with one view of how Saint-Just appeared, in the physical description of Saint-Just in "Quatrevingt-treize" he looks nothing like Enjolras.
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I haven't read the book, but I know it from hearsay. You have interesting findings, so I'll eagerly read it
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What pretty young princesses these two are! I swear, they look adorable, kind of like two (revolutionary) kittens in a (virtuous) basket, if that does not sound offensive. I like how they are sort of a mirror image of each other-physically and figuratively.
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Lol! Love it! I bet they have never, ever been thought of as kittenish.
And yes, I was mirroring them. The dark qualities to the SJ portrait made it easier, but they had to be mirrored. I did consider having E's head on SJ's shoulder, but it was a bridge too far...
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Yet another win pic from you. Very well done, and such handsome young men!!!!! :drools:
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Cheers 
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Oh, geez, I'm sorry! I had no idea!!! Sorry to offend!
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Lol! No, I was joking
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Thank you! Poor S-J...so hard to be taken srsly with all that pretty going on. Bet Enjolras had the same problem.
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Ha, I bet so!
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Wow, this is super gorgeous.
Someone else mentioned, but the eyes are great.
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Thank you! I'd love to know what colour SJ's really were - blue is often mentioned, but in the Prudhon portrait they seem dark. Nicely complementing Enjolras, so it seems to me.
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I've said it at AbaissΓ©, and I'll say it again: very nicely rendered portrait of Enjolras and S-J (who is instantly recognisable, even to someone largely ignorant of French history!). 
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Thank you! I don't know if I'd want to come under those level gazes too often. I'm not all that good at virtue (or the French Republican concept of "vertu"). But so temptingly pretty.
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Thank you!
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You're welcome!
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Oh, I LOVE this!! GORGEOUS!! I know I sound goofy, but it amazes me that people know-- and still speak of-- people I used to read about and sometimes even admire...but the point is-- you've dne a fabulous job-- heroic and romantic!! WIN!!
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Thank you
They are too pretty, these two.
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