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Monsieur Morrel you’re a real one

The Great Re-Read Update #1: the 2002 adaptation really does an EXCELLENT job of conveying the unbelievable silliness on these pages

‘It sounds as if you only want a God because he fills the gaps in your policies’ YES

Ah Marat Marat… i didn’t mourn you when i read about your death in 7th grade…. And i don’t miss you now either

‘Listen.’ Robespierre eased out of a pocket his little volume of The Social Contract.
‘Oh good, story time,’ Danton said.

I AM SCREAMING i could read this shit forever

I love love love the humor in her books

Things used to be funnier when the revered church fathers got into fistfights

In 2026, we start depicting Jesus with his magical wand again, mark my words.

The idea that Roman writers were sitting around commenting on Christianity as “boring, overdone…etc” is so unbelievably hilarious

Lizzie’s made me hyper emotional about her girls within two chapters, nobody talk to me.

Now we’re talking >:)

one thing about me is i AM going to roll my eyes at the argument that a high infant mortality rate meant parents didn’t get invested in their children before the age of six don’t be DISGUSTING

Always maintained that I don’t care about 20th century history but perhaps I should start.

Hungarian Hubris vs. A few angry guys on Horsies

I miss when it was normal for characters to be unapologetic socialists.

So somehow everything seems even more screwed up when you consider that this wasn’t done out of base hatred or whatever but just… greed? economic interest? hm.

Hi so i’m already deeply attached to all main characters

Er is wütend und bereit es jedermann’s Problem zu mache

Hätte wirklich nicht gedacht dass dieses Buch mich so sehr packen würde weil mir jegliche Bezüge zum modernen Finanzwesen ja generell
zuwider sind aber Mittelalter-Crowdfunding, Kerbholz-Blockchain und Beginen-WGs sind schon ganz ulkig hier aufgearbeitet.

Unsurprisingly the incessant self-loathing is equally intolerable when women do it

they’re not selling me
i still don’t give a fuck about either mc sadly

The names man, the names are too much sometimes.

“Perhaps I did penetrate her on our wedding night, but upon my word I didn’t ejaculate within her because I, the KING OF FRANCE, was rendered [temporarily] impotent because of uh… magic. Therefore this Danish Princess cannot be my wife, and in fact never has been.”
Be so serious rn

Babes I want more detail why are these chapters so SHORT
(because its impossible to fit 12 entire biographies into one book, you say? Perhaps.)

was he… you know… born in the saddle? 👀
were his parents… uh… within the forbidden 5th degree?

Yeah she’s a baddie ig but will her illustrious lineage lend my offspring political clout

Oh Baby its about to get niche as FUCK in here

you know this is leftist theory when it shows tables upon tables of purchasing power developments etc

Mh but this is already a strong contender for favourite book of the year