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smchr-nina · 29 days
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smchr-nina · 4 months
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Today is the day citizens 😢🇨🇵☠️⚰️🙏🏽
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smchr-nina · 8 months
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Richy is so enchanted by Sonny
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smchr-nina · 9 months
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smchr-nina · 9 months
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smchr-nina · 9 months
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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pov: you're Jean Valjean in Les Miserábles
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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Just wondering if Vicky is planning on releasing any new content in honor of this year's barricade day
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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Barricade day 2023 was nice, see you all next year
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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THE PORTRAYAL OF THE JUNE REBELLION WE SEE IN LES MISERÁBLES
So, while trying to be funny I made a few posts about barricade day aaand, okay, might have used the term "fictional" when I shouldn't because now apparently some people think I didn't know the revolution actually happened, and while some people just pointed it out I also had to read a very offensive comment calling me a "dumbass" (for a minute I even thought I was using Twitter and not tumblr but anyways)
To clarify it and also to bring actual facts to this day I'm using the knowledge I actually do have on this matter (guess what, I love history) to show a few facts about the revolution we see in the novel and the one that actually happened
In both, the novel/musical and the actual rebellion the catalyst for the rebels was General Jean Lamarque, he was a favorite among the people because of how he appreciated the lower classes' desires and and needs
Historians believe that without Victor Hugo and his romanticism the June Rebellion would probably not even be remembered (make it an underground revolution) since it was such a fast act and since it was primarily a Parisian revolution rather than something that stirred the whole country
Although the starvation that the poor people of Paris were going through is mentioned in the musical and in the original novel there are some facts that influenced the Rebellion that Vicky did not mention, the best example of it is the huge cholera outbreak that swept the country in the spring of 1832
In Victor Hugo's work only one day separates the death of Lamarque from his funeral, in real life there was a 5 day gap between these events
When it comes to the course of the revolution, Les Mis is actually accurate, the shots during Lamarque's funeral happened and then it all lead to the barricades and the infamous cannon fires
Although the people did not rise and the revolution failed, Les Mis kind of reduces our understanding of how big the rebellion actually was, this happens because the book focuses on a group of students (our dear amis) and even for literary purposes it is the right choice, but it gives the impression that like, maybe 40 ou 50 people were hurt or died, while in real life the rebellion had something close to 800 people who were killed or injured
Victor Hugo might not know, but he probably saved a historical event from becoming lost in the world's vast history (and gave us our favorite characters
Les mis is actually only partially accurate if we look at whole context of the revolution and the whole depths of it, but the reason why this isn't a real problem is because it is a novel written by a French romanticist, so naturally he focused on individual redemptions and more simplified ideas of social justice, also, since the book focuses on a specific group of people for plot purposes we can't properly understand how there were actually more people involved than it seems, and that there were more barricades around the city
Some of the characters were actually inspired by people who took part in the real revolution, for example, there was, allegedly, a man who stood in one of the barricades and yelled "Liberty or death" while waving a red flag, and that, as we know, inspired the creation of Enjolras
I think this is it for now, might add something later tho, I hope this clarifies that I actually do know about the real revolution, what I meant was that the literary romanticized revolution we see in Vicky's work is not 100% accurate since it's filled with fictional characters from the novel
When the best fandom reunites to celebrate a non-official holiday based on a revolution mentioned in a 200-year-old novel
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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Happy Barricade Day!!!🇲🇫
If there's one thing I love imagining is what would good old Vicky think of the fact we took his revolution so far as making it our own holiday and such a huge thing every single year.
He had no idea what was coming his way
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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Victor hugo: inserts a revolution organized by students who wanted to overthrow the monarchy into his 1500-page-long novel thinking he would inspire us
Us: happy barricade day, let's post memes and read/write fanfiction
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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When the best fandom reunites to celebrate a non-official holiday based on a revolution mentioned in a 200-year-old novel
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smchr-nina · 10 months
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When I try to tell people how obsessed I am with Les Mis and that it's not a phase, it's just my whole personality
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smchr-nina · 11 months
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emotional comfort duo
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smchr-nina · 11 months
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🇧🇷x🇰🇷
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they make me feel things
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smchr-nina · 11 months
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i can’t with them🤎
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