History: the Ultimate Fandom
A place to love History, for the lulz and epic times that lead us to where we are now.
Maintained by lushthemagicdragon
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Post reblogged from A Mad Boy and his Box building a Motorbike
Being a member of the Les Mis fandom, I’ve encountered a startling amount of sentiment that there were no people of color in nineteenth century France, that it’s unrealistic to racebend or headcanon characters as people of color and that they can only be written as such in modern alternate universe fic. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for historical veracity and become slightly miffed at colorblind attempts to integrate people of color without considering the racial implications of their involvement in the narrative, but the idea that they didn’t exist in historical Europe is bullshit. People of color are part of the world and have always been part of it, and attempts to ignore that do not come from historical accuracy, but Eurocentrism, erasure, and a flagrant absenceof research.
So what people of color existed in nineteenth century France then? I’ve researched historical minority communities and am posting about them in parts, one post per community. This post will focus on the African French diaspora. It is part one of a series on ethnic minorities in nineteenth century France. This does not include the African American diaspora and African American immigration to France or North African and Moorish communities already settled in France and the French Mediterranean, which will be the subjects of separate posts.Below the cut are facts relevant to the African French community, which ideally will assist fandom in producing art, fan fiction, and meta incorporative of people of color.
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Photo reblogged from A Mad Boy and his Box building a Motorbike
France, France Revolution
Oh man, this game is impossible. The minute you think you’ve finally got a Republic going everything just falls to shit and you have to do the whole game all over again.
Don’t even get me started on the Bastille level.
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Post reblogged from A Mad Boy and his Box building a Motorbike
Have a list, tumblr, of people who actually lived who could have easily been associated with Les Amis (whether negatively or positively). This is a handy dandy reference for situating fic and RP into historical context. I will happily add more if people send more my way, but these are all people who were between 32 and 19 years old in 1832, and were in Paris at around the time that the schoolboys would have been.
Feel free to send me more and/or correct anything that’s wrong!
I’m also not including Hugo himself because, well, that’s an obvious one.
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The Louvre, Paris c. WWII
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Aaaand Nini Legs in the Air.
I posted this ages ago on my own tumblr, but here it is now. The real life Nini Legs in the Air, that the character from Moulin Rouge was based on.
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Photo reblogged from Send Help At Once
Charlotte Corday in Prison by Charles Louis Muller
Don’t tell me she doesn’t look like she’s about to break out in her own rendition of the Cell Block Tango.
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Photo reblogged from The Age of Enlighteneers
Here is a Napoleon for Miss oneangrypixie! I regret there is no Josephine though :[ But that just leaves options for the future!
I have really wanted to do something with Jacques Louis David for a while now; he’s one of my favorite artists and artists’ obsessions are sometimes quite amusing. Like David’s fascination with Napoleon’s “classically structured” face. Hear, hear, this artist certainly agrees; young Napoleon’s portraits are pretty rawr
