Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: 2-6 March

[vinteuil]

Nice. And the next street from mine (no 5/6 - gaff of Baudelaire's mistress - pity that website can't spell his name... - and of a Revolutionary lawyer guillotined with Citizen Robespierre):

... ah yes, Coffinhal -

"Juge impitoyable au Tribunal révolutionnaire, ami de Robespierre et Fouquet Tinville. On lui prête la phrase jetée à Lavoisier, qu'il fait condamner : "La République n'a pas besoin de savants". Guillotiné après Thermidor."

There are times when the current atrocities of DAESH / ISIS make me think of the worst aspects the French Revolution, which wasn't that long ago, after all...