slyrider:

jabariqueen:

Dude, people back in the day were savage with words. When Thérèsa Tallien got arrested and was about to be guillotined, she sent a message to her influential lover who wasn’t doing anything to save her. The message only read “Je meurs d’appartenir à un lâche”, which can be translated as “I’m dying because I belong to a coward” or as “I die in despair at having belonged to a coward like you”. I dont know if i properly convey the savagery of these words through the translation but anyway she SNAPPED. And like, the dude was so shook by her words that the next day he participated in the overthrowing of the chief of the Terror (which was the current regime that consisted of guillotining literally every aristocrats and people not complying to the new government) and she got released instead of guillotined lol

@words-writ-in-starlight