Unrendered Lannes And Bessires

Unrendered Lannes and Bessières 🥹

"Robespierre and the Cult of the Supreme Being" by Albert Mathiez.

Robespierre’s physiognomy has been so disfigured for the past twenty years by historians that to speak today of the Incorruptible’s religious ideas may seem to be attempting the impossible.

            Robespierre, it is proclaimed, is narrow-minded, a man of the ancien régime, a coldly ambitious man who wanted to reign over France by imposing upon it, by Terror, a false copy of Catholicism, deism established as State religion.

            I cannot consider studying, texts and proofs in hand, all of Robespierre’s politics regarding religion. It will suffice me to take an example, to examine the exact role Robespierre played in the establishment of the Religion of the Supreme Being since this seems to be the essential test used by all his detractors.

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“All our invention and progress seems to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.”

—Karl Marx, 1856

Some random pieces 🥺 I like how General Junot looks much better in the sketch, more unhinged I guess. Why do sketches always look better than finished pieces?? 😣🙏