“To die is nothing; it is terrible not to live.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
11/11/12
“Elisabeth of Austria was the wife of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She also held the titles of Queen of Bohemia and Croatia, among others.”
I hate the phrase “boys will be boys” and I think it should be replaced with “bad parenting results in assholes”
“It was at that ambassador’s table that I made the acquaintance of the Chevalier d’Eon, the secretary of the embassy, who afterwards became famous. This Chevalier d’Eon was a handsome woman who had been an advocate and a captain of dragoons before entering the diplomatic service; she served Louis XV as a valiant soldier and a diplomatist of consummate skill. In spite of her manly ways I soon recognized her as a woman; her voice was not that of a castrato, and her shape was too rounded to be a man’s. I say nothing of the absence of hair on her face, as that might be an accident.”
- Giacomo Casanova(Source: The Library Time Machine)
Was it written by Simon Schama?
enjolras and his lieutenants
Art by Lynd Ward.
Svetlana Yukhlina’s series on the life of Antoine Saint-Just
(1/2)
#how dare you bring your straight problems into my revolution
#me: how dare you bring your straight enjolras ships into my fandom
