walking on the path to the public library, at night. on university campus. surrounded by trees, high grass, walls with political messages on it. the mistral is blowing. i'm wrapped up inside my mildly warm coat. the heavy book is tight in my arms, too heavy for my bag. the moon, and venus, watching us from up there. and then, like a murmur, a rumor from the world itself ; the sound of the highway, somewhere in the background, far from here. thinking that, in human history, this sound is so recent. wondering how was the sound of night, of wind, of silence. how scary and mystical it was. how, then, at that time, gods were believable. at that time, before they built highways.

When Enjolras said

"Citoyens, le dix-neuvième siècle est grand, mais le vingtième siècle sera heureux. Alors plus rien de semblable à la vieille histoire ; on n’aura plus à craindre, comme aujourd’hui, une conquête, une invasion, une usurpation, une rivalité de nations à main armée, une interruption de civilisation dépendant d’un mariage de rois, une naissance dans les tyrannies héréditaires, un partage de peuples par congrès, un démembrement par écroulement de dynastie, un combat de deux religions se rencontrant de front, comme deux boucs de l’ombre, sur le pont de l’infini ; on n’aura plus à craindre la famine, l’exploitation, la prostitution par détresse, la misère par chômage, et l’échafaud, et le glaive, et les batailles, et tous les brigandages du hasard dans la forêt des événements. On pourrait presque dire : il n’y aura plus d’événements. On sera heureux." (Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy.)

He Didn't Know. That makes me so sad. The twenty-first century is still not happy. We still have to fight for this world.

*sees a gay couple* so which one of you is the angelically beautiful, charming young man capable of being terrible, at once scholarly and warlike, both a thinker and a man of action, and which one is the sceptic, the anarchic questioner of all beliefs, scornful of allegiance to any cause, incapable of belief, of thought, of will, of life, and of death?

i told him. he loved it. he laughed. he screenshotted bahorel's description

there's this guy in my class who's literally bahorel :

hyperactive - speak very quickly

knows everyone

always stand up to his teacher, to get what he wants (like a cool school projet) or to denounce something (like the whole liberalisation process happening in french university)

goes to famous french politician and just say whatever he wants during a protest

probably an anarchist or something

is very cool

enjoltaire musician/band hyperpop/rock/techno/punk AU

grantaire's pov who is in love with enjolras but they are not dating anymore

on ira / s'aimer sur les barricades / cramer toute la capitale / s'tenir la main sur les toits / mais promis c'est amical (we'll go / love each others on the barricades / burn down all the capital (paris) / hold hands on the roofs / but i promise it's just friendly )

je te chant'rai qu'la vie est belle / j'en crois pas un mot mais / je croyais en rien avant ton "je t'aime" (i'll sing to you that life is beautifiul / i don't believe a word but / i believed in nothing before your "i love you")

im def jmping off a roof tonight

The months of winter of the Republican calendar : Nivôse (the month of Snows), Pluviôse (the month of Rains) and Ventôse (the month of Winds) !

there's this guy in my class who's literally bahorel :

hyperactive - speak very quickly

knows everyone

always stand up to his teacher, to get what he wants (like a cool school projet) or to denounce something (like the whole liberalisation process happening in french university)

goes to famous french politician and just say whatever he wants during a protest

probably an anarchist or something

is very cool

Cruche à anse cornue zoomorphe

Décor géométrique peint, céramique

Daunie, Pouilles (Italie)

550-525 av.

Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne (Marseille)

ok i just understood that if jehan is named jean prouvaire is because "prouvaire" means priest in moyen français...

I have the honor to be your obediant servant,

A. Ham

A. Burr

A. Ger

I have the honor to be your obediant servant,

A. Ham

A. Burr

A. Ger

While studying my greek history class i had a thought: Victor Hugo!Grantaire might be representing the figure of Silenus. im sure someone already thought that but.

they drink a lot

they follow Dionysus' cortege

they are very ugly

they are "bon vivant" (as we say in french), always laughing and singing

minor divinity of drunkenness, always in this state

but there's also a part of them as prophet, wise and philosoph

Also my teacher said Silenus were, for the Greeks, an intermediate between "civilized world" and "barbaric world". Ancient Greeks built their identity by differentiating themselves of the "barbarians" through the way they drink wine (a very important drink in their culture). "Civilized people" (the Greeks, especially the political and social elite) drank wine moderatly, in opposition of "barbarians" (or lower classes) who were in excess, hybris. Maybe there's some symbolic things to say about Grantaire here, especially when we know that Victor Hugo sometimes talk about "barbary"("savage") and "civilization" (ex: last paragraphs of les mis, volume IV, book 1, chap. 5)

:)

happy barricade day i actually prepared for this year!

truth be told i wanted to do a canon era art for once but i was alredy on the enj in leather jacket train in my mind ,, love my modern amis designs anyways >:)

(+downloadable lockscreens)

did you know that here in france when you get the recap of a judgement, it says, in all caps : "FRENCH REPUBLIC. IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE."

and then blabla "the court made the decision, the tenor of which follows

"IN CONSEQUENCES, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, ORDERS..." and that's how they said i changed sex