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un: French revolution ❦ video
[It's a day or so since he's arrived in Wyver and you'd think Enjolras might have something to say about the advanced technology, the breath-taking scenery, the ravenous creatures all determined to eat everyone-]
The honor of nations consists in being free and virtuous, in striking down tyrants and avenging reviled humanity.
[-or not.
You might mistake the age of the fiery-eyed young blond, he looks so young, except there's a gravity in his voice as he speaks and a serious set to his brow.]
I do not know you, fellow citizens, nor you me. I will introduce myself. My family name is Enjolras. I have five and twenty years and before the Storm I was a student of law in Paris.
We are from different lands, have lived different lives, pursued different goals- but now we are all here. If this is to be our home now, so be it. The Natha in their Space Ship have saved us and brought us to live here. So we shall live; we must. There are some forces against which men cannot fight and this must be one of them.
But there are other matters against which we must stand. There are, in this land, two names that are an affront to anyone who would be free. Two names that, by their very existence, threaten the life we are to lead here. They are the very antithesis of everything towards which free people strive, as they stand in the way of free people ruling themselves.
These names are 'king' and 'empress'.
[He doesn't have time to go into why these things are terrible. It's disconcerting to speak to no-one, to have no response. But he expects others will respond and it is to them directly that he plans to make his arguments. He has seen other conversations on the network, approved of this free and open means of communication. He'll use it for himself.]
There are some of you who have been awake longer than I. It may be that I am wrong in my assumptions. The names king and empress may be different from the titles I was familiar with in my former life. I can only hope it is so. I welcome all details you have. If you fear speaking of such things publicly I am willing to meet in person to exchange information.
[He gives a formal nod and cuts the feed.]
[It's been less than a week someone tell him to chill out.]
The honor of nations consists in being free and virtuous, in striking down tyrants and avenging reviled humanity.
[-or not.
You might mistake the age of the fiery-eyed young blond, he looks so young, except there's a gravity in his voice as he speaks and a serious set to his brow.]
I do not know you, fellow citizens, nor you me. I will introduce myself. My family name is Enjolras. I have five and twenty years and before the Storm I was a student of law in Paris.
We are from different lands, have lived different lives, pursued different goals- but now we are all here. If this is to be our home now, so be it. The Natha in their Space Ship have saved us and brought us to live here. So we shall live; we must. There are some forces against which men cannot fight and this must be one of them.
But there are other matters against which we must stand. There are, in this land, two names that are an affront to anyone who would be free. Two names that, by their very existence, threaten the life we are to lead here. They are the very antithesis of everything towards which free people strive, as they stand in the way of free people ruling themselves.
These names are 'king' and 'empress'.
[He doesn't have time to go into why these things are terrible. It's disconcerting to speak to no-one, to have no response. But he expects others will respond and it is to them directly that he plans to make his arguments. He has seen other conversations on the network, approved of this free and open means of communication. He'll use it for himself.]
There are some of you who have been awake longer than I. It may be that I am wrong in my assumptions. The names king and empress may be different from the titles I was familiar with in my former life. I can only hope it is so. I welcome all details you have. If you fear speaking of such things publicly I am willing to meet in person to exchange information.
[He gives a formal nod and cuts the feed.]
[It's been less than a week someone tell him to chill out.]
voice, un: flashgordon
You talk like the friggin' Declaration of Independence.
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[Even if he can feel bitter than Lafayette helped America towards independence and then put a Bourbon back on the throne.] Speak rather of the declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. That is our national document of independence.
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I am pleased to hear it. I'll hope to find you as much an ally of the people of Wyver and Olympia.
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[ Which is generally true! Except he hasn't put together that Enjolras is actually talking about overthrowing the government. He's more mort aux Nazis than mort aux rois. ]
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Will you tell me your name, monsieur American, that we may be better known to each other?
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[ Which is not very French. ]
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They all told me it was real American, to like Paris so much, but I didn't know what they were talking about.
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She is a city that would be seen better without her king. That is what I worked toward. [And his brows knit together a moment when he realises- he will never. And given the storm... Paris may never.] How I would have liked to see her, if not for the storm.
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No king? [His hope rises, until he realises the man probably means he came a few years ago.] Then you'll have come before Lafayette gave us Louis-Phillipe.
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[He's on his feet, eyes wide.] Monsieur, please say clearly what you mean. The France I know has had only one Republique, which lasted from the 22nd of September 1972 until Buonaparte set himself up as Emperor in 1804.
[Now is not the time to discuss when exactly it ended. He wants to know when there was time for a second and a third republic!!]
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[It doesn't matter when. One hundred years puts it at least at 1845, only thirteen years from the date of Enjolras' death. So close! So unbearably far!
But still, a hundred years without a king.]
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[There's more to say. More should be said.
But France, a republique. For a hundred years. It is beyond words.]
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[ A pause. Maybe that's morbid, or private, or any number of somethings. ] Sorry if I shouldn't ask.