This is true, again. That Desmoulins-jumping-ship thing did come with a footnote, ironically, in that I think - not sure, it's been a few days, obviously, but referring to the notes I made afterwards - the reason he did it was because of the earlier incident with helping Saint-Just to the Convention. That made his own side suspicious of his motives and loyalty, so he was getting steadily more isolated from them. By the time he decided to jump ship, he was being pushed out to the fringes of his party anyway, and he wanted to stay in the thick of things.
*nod* Agreed, entirely. The French Revolution is an especially complicated things, because something as small as someone tripping and having to go home to change and therefore missing a hugely important event is enough to change everything. I have noticed that tendency of alternate histories to try to circle back to the normal history rather than continue going outwards, like the "If the South won the American Civil War, all would be different, but only in the short run - in the long run, no change". But I must admit that that is a particularly boring example...
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Date: 2008-04-03 05:17 pm (UTC)*nod* Agreed, entirely. The French Revolution is an especially complicated things, because something as small as someone tripping and having to go home to change and therefore missing a hugely important event is enough to change everything. I have noticed that tendency of alternate histories to try to circle back to the normal history rather than continue going outwards, like the "If the South won the American Civil War, all would be different, but only in the short run - in the long run, no change". But I must admit that that is a particularly boring example...