Chapter II:
La haine, dans ces lieux, n'a qu'un glaive assassin.
Elle marche dans l'ombre.
La Harpe, "Jeanne de Naples," Act IV. Sc. I.
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A 19th century English author making a Frenchman the dastardly villain? Gee, …
Chapter II:
La haine, dans ces lieux, n'a qu'un glaive assassin.
Elle marche dans l'ombre.
La Harpe, "Jeanne de Naples," Act IV. Sc. I.
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A 19th century English author making a Frenchman the dastardly villain? Gee, who could ever have seen *that* coming? ;-) And of course, the Englishman gets to be the sensible and honorable one of the whole affair :-)
Unfortunately I couldn't quite capture that French accent as well as I would have liked here. Not that I was ever very good at it, but it's particularly poor this time around. Then again, Nicot is supposed to be quite a changed man at this point given the Revolution has not gone quite as he expected (i.e. he has not been part of the winning faction), so if my voice acting for his part is not the same as it was before, just chalk it up to the changes in the character, not my voice acting!
tocsin - an alarm bell or signal
Les ombres de Danton, d'Hebert, de Chaumette, se promenent parmi nous!: The shades of Danton, Hébert and Chaumette walk amongst us.
Golgotha is the Greek word for Calvary
Footnote from the author concerning Nicot's Party: None were more opposed to the Hebertists than Camille Desmoulins and his friends. It is curious and amusing to see these leaders of the mob, calling the mob "the people" one day, and the "canaille" the next, according as it suits them. "I know," says Camille, "that they (the Hébertists) have all the canaille with them."—(Ils ont toute la canaille pour eux.)
sans-culotte: a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.
assignat: paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796 to address imminent bankruptcy.
The picture used is a painting of a typical sans-culotte by Louis-Léopold Boilly
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