The Devil to pay

Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates on les pendra!

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valinaraii: Very good, Monsieur Méneval, you almost made me choke with laughter so I don’t care for once if this is true or not (memoirs from the napoleonic era, you know). this is one of my favourites Lannes stories.

valinaraii:

Very good, Monsieur Méneval, you almost made me choke with laughter so I don’t care for once if this is true or not (memoirs from the napoleonic era, you know).

this is one of my favourites Lannes stories.

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I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.
Meryl Streep (via mythandrists)

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes: help me father, for I am in love with an asexual dead man T.E. Lawrence (or “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1888-1935) was an eccentric archaeologist and Oxford graduate active in the Middle East during the Great War as a military advisor to the Arab leadership. He fought alongside local troops and dreamed of an independent united Arabia, yet (to some extent) was plagued by his successes; he recognized he could never be more than a British hand moving about in a foreign land, extraordinary though he was. He died at age 46 in a motorcycle accident on his Brough Superior, now housed in the Imperial War Museum in London. also look at him.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

help me father, for I am in love with an asexual dead man

T.E. Lawrence (or “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1888-1935) was an eccentric archaeologist and Oxford graduate active in the Middle East during the Great War as a military advisor to the Arab leadership. He fought alongside local troops and dreamed of an independent united Arabia, yet (to some extent) was plagued by his successes; he recognized he could never be more than a British hand moving about in a foreign land, extraordinary though he was.

He died at age 46 in a motorcycle accident on his Brough Superior, now housed in the Imperial War Museum in London.

also look at him.

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historiandaily: “Carthago delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed.” October 19, 202 BC- Scipio Africanus leads his Roman legions to victory against a Carthaginian army under Hannibal Barca at the Battle of Zama, the last battle of the Second Punic War. Despite outnumbering the Romans and commanding 80 war elephants, Hannibal’s entire army is killed or captured while the Romans suffer minor losses. Having lost so decisive a battle on their home territory, Carthage soon sued for peace. The terms were so humiliating and punishing, Carthage could never challenge Rome again. Fifty years later, Rome would start the Third Punic War and wipe Carthage out completely, razing the city and killing all but a few citizens. Picture- Carthaginian war elephants engage Roman infantry at the Battle of Zama, Henri-Paul Motte, around 1890

historiandaily:

“Carthago delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed.”

October 19, 202 BC- Scipio Africanus leads his Roman legions to victory against a Carthaginian army under Hannibal Barca at the Battle of Zama, the last battle of the Second Punic War. Despite outnumbering the Romans and commanding 80 war elephants, Hannibal’s entire army is killed or captured while the Romans suffer minor losses. Having lost so decisive a battle on their home territory, Carthage soon sued for peace. The terms were so humiliating and punishing, Carthage could never challenge Rome again. Fifty years later, Rome would start the Third Punic War and wipe Carthage out completely, razing the city and killing all but a few citizens.

Picture- Carthaginian war elephants engage Roman infantry at the Battle of Zama, Henri-Paul Motte, around 1890

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