U Kno This Site Is Full Of Nerds Because Even People’s Sexual Fantasies Are Like Ok I’m A 19th Century

Hello Frevblr,

I don't know the history of the revolution well enough, maybe some of you can help me out with a question. Have any of you read the play Danton's Tod / Danton's Death by Georg Büchner? How historically accurate is it? I know that he used numerous historical sources and actual quotes from speeches, but he also creates his own narrative and characterization of the historical figures (Robespierre especially gets a bit of the tyrant treatment) and I wondered how much they stray away from the historical facts

Anyway, thanks in advance for any additional information!!

larreyyyy

Pardonnez-moi Monsieur le Maréchal

Should I draw Masséna in this

sideburns as in 19th century, not as in weird uncle that should probably be on some kind of watch list

Fixating on a specific part of history is really fun and all, but it has left me with incurable trust issues regarding popularized quotes and facts from historical periods I'm not well versed in. Digging beneath the surface and looking at primary sources makes you realize how much bs is being regarded as (non-academic) mainstream knowledge. And all because some historian from the victorian era will straight-up have pulled a claim out of their ass or taken Mr. Petty McLiar at face value, whose memoirs were written 20 years after the actual events and contain so much bias and misinformation to be classified as fiction

more egyptian campaign shenanigans: The Junot/Lanusse duel

maybe I'll turn the entire thing into a comic one day when I have more time

text is from the translation of Laure's memoirs

Uhh obligatory introduction post incoming-

Hello, I'm Em (19, he/any), I made this blog so that I can live out my historical hyperfixations on here instead of torturing my poor friends and family.

I'll post mostly art of:

- napoleonic era figures

- (historical) original characters being homoerotic

- old-timey surgeons covered in blood

- age of sail

- anything else that gets stuck in my brain and starts rotting there

Please talk to me, I promise I want to socialize and make new friends I just suck at it lol

(English isn't my first language, but I'll give it my best)

Sketch dump before my personal waterloo (my final exams)

Ach Jomini

19 May 1845: Franklin Expedition leaves England

Sir John Franklin's Arctic Expedition in HMS Erebus & Terror sailed out from Greenhithe on Monday 19 May 1845. And as we all know, they sadly never returned.

[Illustrated London News, 24 May 1845. My collection]

Oc wip

when you're trying to do your job but bro forces you into homoerotic moments