Eastern Front

 They did not stop fighting on Easter day, maybe they would stop today, May 1st, the international...

Thermidor

  In early 1794 Robespierre and his allies started to accuse Tallien of “moderationism,” or an insufficiently hard-line attitude when it came to the guillotine. For the moment, his status as a deputy shielded him, but not Cabarrus, who was imprisoned on Robespierre’s orders. By 8 Thermidor her trial and execution looked imminent. Frantic to save her and fearing for his own life, Tallien spent the early-morning hours of 9 Thermidor crisscrossing the center of the capital, visiting deputies and imploring them to join him in attacking Robespierre in the Convention.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/03/10/the-end-of-the-terror-robespierre-jones-bell/

SURPRISE! the reaction, the contra-revolution occurred only because Tallien was desperate to save his beloved beautiful Spanish lover

civil

Just left civil service. 

Till I was 22 and left my parent's house, everyday my father used to wake me up with a sentence he had taken from Saint Simon: "Levez vous Monsieur le vicomte car vous avez des grand services a rendre a l'Humanité!" No vicomte, no great services, but I did serve....