q13

[dubdobdee]

13.

i: Who reflected?
ii: Whose murder was intended to save 100,000?
iii: Who unwisely suggested that starving people should eat grass?
iv: Where were clerics executed en masse in a novel and breathtaking manner?
v: Whose grand-nephew lent him his cloak, enabling his escape, and was executed in his stead?
vi: Where did the Frogs put the portable guillotine to good use while the Lobsters guarded the ford nearby?
vii: Who, disguised as Benjamin Rosenbaum, led his adversary to Père Blanchard’s hut?
viii: Who were the two deputies flung into the river at Savigné-l’Evêque?
ix: Who succeeded the novice duellist as deputy for Ancenis?
x: Justify deux cent quatre-vingts.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

at first guess this is about incidents during the french revolution -- i think historical (rather than novels about it) but may be wrong abt that, as i can't quickly see my way to any answers

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

if so, v. sounds like the end of Tale of Two Cities?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ah maybe not, it was the lawyer dude that did the execution switcheroo in ToTC, not a grand-nephew.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes that's what i was (vaguely) thinking

i seem to have had a bit of a precision-memory clear-out since last year -- it all feels just round the corner of my mind this week

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

vii is the Scarlet Pimpernel, so I think it must be the French Revolution generally.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii. is Charlotte Corday who stabbed and killed Marat (in his bath, supposedly) - at her trail she said she'd killed one man to save 100,000, itself an allusion to Robespierre's justification for the execution of Louis XVI

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

or rather the answer is Marat