selenak: (Porthos by Chatona)
selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote 2023-07-31 09:14 am (UTC)

I'm all for it. And curious whether George Orwell's observation that in the Anglosphere, everyone's pop culture introduction to the French Revolution via a mixture of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and The Scarlet Pimpernell still applies. (Neither is true in my corner of Europe in terms of historical fiction set during the French Revolution. Depending on your type of school and/or manga interests, it's problably Georg Büchner's drama Danton for the grammar school kids (at least of my generation and older, it was part of the obligatory literary canon) or the Rose of Versailles manga.

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