Sesame Street’s Les Mousserables x
Speaking of Les Mis adaptations, I feel like we all need to take a moment to remember this one. Truly a version for the ages.
I especially like the part where no one dies and everyone has cookies.
Never forget
Enjolfood
It’s still technically Barricade Day 2015, so here’s my humble contribution:
Rapports sur les opérations et les faits militaires auxquels la garde nationale a pris part dans les journées des 5 et 6 juin
aka
“Reports on the Operations and Military Events in which the National Guard Took Part on the Days of June 5th and 6th”
These are French military reports produced for the government in the immediate aftermath of the June Rebellion. Composed less than a week after the fall of the barricades (12 June 1832), they contain eyewitness accounts of the actions of the Army, the National Guard, and the Paris Municipal Guard. While obviously very biased against the republicans, they represent a unique, fresh perspective on the events that Hugo depicts in Les Misérables.
The reports are all in French (and can be found via Google books), but I’ve done my own (very rough) translation of certain excerpts. Here’s an account of Lamarque’s funeral:
At Madeline, some young men who were marching under a particular flag, and who were called the “Amis du people,” wanted the soldiers, after having paid respect to the funeral wagon, to take up arms behind them. They addressed the troops, saying to them, “We are counting on you, my friends, you can count ‘on the Amis du people.’” These words corresponded with the dangerous proclamations that had been disseminated the night before in the barracks, with the goal of diverting the soldiers from their duty.
And here’s a description of the barricades around the Cloister of Saint-Méry. which Hugo used as the basis for his fictional barricade in Les Misérables:
Resistance was most strongly organized at the junction of Rue des Arcis, Rue Saint-Martin, Rue Saint-Méry and Rue Aubry-le-Boucher. There, paving-stone barricades had been established in each of the streets. The four houses that stood at the intersection had been barricaded, and paving stones, rocks and pieces of wood were being thrown from every window.
The rest of my (again, super fast and likely inaccurate) translations are below the cut, as well as a rough guide of the reports. Hopefully, some of you will dig in and suss out more good stuff that I haven’t found yet!
Friendly reminder that about now, Courfeyrac would be taking the watch. All our boys would be dead in a few hours.
im in a way different time zone so correct me if im wrong but:
its like 10 pm in paris on june 5th right now as i right this i believe, and 183~ fictional years ago enjolras and grantaire have close to like… 13 hours left of their lives. if my memory serves: bahorel is dead, mabeuf is dead, eponine is dead. if jean prouvaire isnt dead them he has very few hours left. same w gavroche.
feuilly, courfeyrac, laigle, joly, and combeferre are not dead and wont be for another 12 hours (183 fictional years ago, that is)
enjolras is probably advising three hours of sleep and ruminating on his death, but no one is sleeping and most are talking politics and philosophy and reliving their lives through words and honoring the lives of those already fallen victim to the national guard
feuilly is carving three words into the wall
its dark and maybe raining.
Valjean and Cosette share a happy moment at the convent for threadbaremillionaire by nisiedrawsstuff for the merry misfest exchange :)
i humbly present: a digital download of every article in the times of london about the 1832 june uprising, from the 5th (the announcement of general lamarque’s death and upcoming funeral) to the 20th (accounts of the first trials of alleged conspirators and participants in the uprising).
DOWNLOAD HERE (pdf, 64 pages, 24 mb)
below the cut, i’ve put together some important contextual information: how the times gathered news on foreign events, what other events you’ll see mentioned, and the general editorial bias of the paper.
i’ve also made a little summary of each day’s coverage, so that if you’re overwhelmed by the full package, you can focus on the bits that interest you.
anyway, i hope you guys enjoy it/find it helpful!
bringing this back for barricade day 2k15!
‘”On your knees.“
Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman’s face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice.
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“Collect yourself,” said he. “Think or pray. You have one minute.“’ – Les Miserables–
Charles Marville, photograph of the Rue Mondétour taken from the Rue Rambuteau (former Rue de la Chanverrerie), circa 1865. Another “about as close as we’re gonna get” image of the site of Hugo’s barricade. I think the high-res version has done the rounds on Tumblr before, but damn if I can find it, so here it is again.
Note the lighter horizontal band in the lower half of the picture–that’s not a crease or any other kind of damage. It’s a ghost… or more likely several ghosts. The widened Rue Rambuteau became a busy thoroughfare, and due to the long exposure time on the photograph, any passerby would’ve been reduced to a faint blur at head height.
I’ve already wished you all a Happy Barricade Day yesterday. So have a Maybe-A-Little-Not-As-Happy Barricade Day today. ;)
Since we all know (by now) what a cheerfully heartless, lying, impenitent bastard I really am, here, have a highly, highly abbreviated version of Combeferre’s speech on me. I realise it’s not what his actual speech is about, but I was thinking about what Hugo said about Combeferre not being an orphan and about to get himself killed, and decided that what I really wanted to do was to frame his speech mainly in the context of the named Amis* and what would follow in the days after their deaths. [— That, and if I actually illustrated his speech in its proper context, it would have taken far more pages, and a finger that was Actually Functional And Very Much Not In Pain.]
Why, for gods’ sake? Because I can.
[And yes, I’ve snuck in people and things all over the place. Also because.]
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* And Gavroche. Because y’know.
