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[td]His restive nature, however, did not diminish. As a young man, Saint-Just was "wild, handsome [and] transgressive".<ref name=Scurr132>Scurr, p. 132.</ref> He reportedly showed a special affection towards a young woman of BlΓ©rancourt, ThΓ©rΓ¨se GellΓ©. She was the daughter of a wealthy notary, a powerful and autocratic figure in the town; he was still an undistinguished adolescent. He is said to have proposed marriage to her, which she is said to have desired.<ref>Hampson, p. 5.</ref> Though no evidence of their relationship exists, official records show that on 25 July 1786, ThΓ©rΓ¨se was married to Emmanuel Thorin, the scion of a prominent local family. Saint-Just was out of town and unaware of the event, and tradition portrays him as brokenhearted. Whatever his true state, it is known that a few weeks after the marriage he abruptly left home for Paris unannounced, having gathered up a pair of pistols and a good quantity of his mother's silver.<ref>Hampson, pp. 5β6.</ref> His venture ended when his mother had him seized by police and sent to a reformatory (''maison de correction'') where he stayed from September 1786 to March 1787. Upon returning, Saint-Just attempted to begin anew: he enrolled as a student at [[Reims University|Reims University's]] School of Law.<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), pp. 57β58.</ref> After a year, however, he drifted away from law school and returned to his mother's home in BlΓ©rancourt penniless, without any occupational prospects.<ref>Hampson, pp.6β9.</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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[td]===''Organt''==[/td] [td][[File:Coucy chΓ’teau (tour d'angle) 1a.jpg|thumb|in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about [[ChΓ’teau de Coucy]], a mediaeval castle with a [[donjon]]]][/td]
[td][[File:Coucy chΓ’teau (tour d'angle) 1a.jpg|thumb|in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about [[ChΓ’teau de Coucy]], a mediaeval castle with a [[donjon]]]][/td] [td]Saint-Just had shown a precocious fascination with literature,<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), p. 59.</ref> and he wrote works of his own including a one-act play ''Arlequin DiogΓ¨ne''.<ref>Whaley, p. 8.</ref> During his stay at the reformatory, he began writing a lengthy poem that he published anonymously more than two years later in May 1789 at the very outbreak of the Revolution. The 21-year-old Saint-Just thereby added his own touch to the social tumult of the times with ''Organt, poem in twenty cantos''.{{efn|On its title page, the book is "mischievously dedicated to the Vatican",<ref>Scurr, p. 120.</ref> and thus sometimes referred to as ''Organt au Vatican''.}} The poem, a medieval epic fantasy relaying the quest of young Antoine Organt, extols the virtues of primitive man, praising his [[libertinism]] and independence whilst blaming all present-day troubles on modern inequalities of wealth and power.<ref>Hampson, pp. 16β17.</ref> Written in a style mimicking [[Ludovico Ariosto|Ariosto]],<ref name=Brink105>Ten Brink, p. 105.</ref> the work foreshadowed its author's future political extremism. Spiked with brutal satire and scandalous pornographic episodes, it also unmistakably attacked the [[House of Bourbon|monarchy]], the [[French nobility|nobility]], and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]].<ref name=Palmer10>Palmer, p. 10.</ref>[/td]
[td]Saint-Just had shown a precocious fascination with literature,<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), p. 59.</ref> and he wrote works of his own including a one-act play ''Arlequin DiogΓ¨ne''.<ref>Whaley, p. 8.</ref> During his stay at the reformatory, he began writing a lengthy poem that he published anonymously more than two years later in May 1789 at the very outbreak of the Revolution. The 21-year-old Saint-Just thereby added his own touch to the social tumult of the times with ''Organt, poem in twenty cantos''.{{efn|On its title page, the book is "mischievously dedicated to the Vatican",<ref>Scurr, p. 120.</ref> and thus sometimes referred to as ''Organt au Vatican''.}} The poem, a medieval epic fantasy relaying the quest of young Antoine Organt, extols the virtues of primitive man, praising his [[libertinism]] and independence whilst blaming all present-day troubles on modern inequalities of wealth and power.<ref>Hampson, pp. 16β17.</ref> Written in a style mimicking [[Ludovico Ariosto|Ariosto]],<ref name=Brink105>Ten Brink, p. 105.</ref> the work foreshadowed its author's future political extremism. Spiked with brutal satire and scandalous pornographic episodes, it also unmistakably attacked the [[House of Bourbon|monarchy]], the [[French nobility|nobility]], and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]].<ref name=Palmer10>Palmer, p. 10.</ref>[/td]
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[td]His restive nature, however, did not diminish. As a young man, Saint-Just was "wild, handsome [and] transgressive".<ref name=Scurr132>Scurr, p. 132.</ref> He reportedly showed a special affection towards a young woman of BlΓ©rancourt, ThΓ©rΓ¨se GellΓ©. She was the daughter of a wealthy notary, a powerful and autocratic figure in the town; he was still an undistinguished adolescent. He is said to have proposed marriage to her, which she is said to have desired.<ref>Hampson, p. 5.</ref> Though no evidence of their relationship exists, official records show that on 25 July 1786, ThΓ©rΓ¨se was married to Emmanuel Thorin, the scion of a prominent local family. Saint-Just was out of town and unaware of the event, and tradition portrays him as brokenhearted. Whatever his true state, it is known that a few weeks after the marriage he abruptly left home for Paris unannounced, having gathered up a pair of pistols and a good quantity of his mother's silver.<ref>Hampson, pp. 5β6.</ref> His venture ended when his mother had him seized by police and sent to a reformatory (''maison de correction'') where he stayed from September 1786 to March 1787. Upon returning, Saint-Just attempted to begin anew: he enrolled as a student at [[Reims University|Reims University's]] School of Law.<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), pp. 57β58.</ref> After a year, however, he drifted away from law school and returned to his mother's home in BlΓ©rancourt penniless, without any occupational prospects.<ref>Hampson, pp.6β9.</ref>[/td]Revision as of 19:06, 3 September 2025
[/td][td]His restive nature, however, did not diminish. As a young man, Saint-Just was "wild, handsome [and] transgressive".<ref name=Scurr132>Scurr, p. 132.</ref> He reportedly showed a special affection towards a young woman of BlΓ©rancourt, ThΓ©rΓ¨se GellΓ©. She was the daughter of a wealthy notary, a powerful and autocratic figure in the town; he was still an undistinguished adolescent. He is said to have proposed marriage to her, which she is said to have desired.<ref>Hampson, p. 5.</ref> Though no evidence of their relationship exists, official records show that on 25 July 1786, ThΓ©rΓ¨se was married to Emmanuel Thorin, the scion of a prominent local family. Saint-Just was out of town and unaware of the event, and tradition portrays him as brokenhearted. Whatever his true state, it is known that a few weeks after the marriage he abruptly left home for Paris unannounced, having gathered up a pair of pistols and a good quantity of his mother's silver.<ref>Hampson, pp. 5β6.</ref> His venture ended when his mother had him seized by police and sent to a reformatory (''maison de correction'') where he stayed from September 1786 to March 1787. Upon returning, Saint-Just attempted to begin anew: he enrolled as a student at [[Reims University|Reims University's]] School of Law.<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), pp. 57β58.</ref> After a year, however, he drifted away from law school and returned to his mother's home in BlΓ©rancourt penniless, without any occupational prospects.<ref>Hampson, pp.6β9.</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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[td]===''Organt''==[/td] [td][[File:Coucy chΓ’teau (tour d'angle) 1a.jpg|thumb|in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about [[ChΓ’teau de Coucy]], a mediaeval castle with a [[donjon]]]][/td]
[td][[File:Coucy chΓ’teau (tour d'angle) 1a.jpg|thumb|in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about [[ChΓ’teau de Coucy]], a mediaeval castle with a [[donjon]]]][/td] [td]Saint-Just had shown a precocious fascination with literature,<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), p. 59.</ref> and he wrote works of his own including a one-act play ''Arlequin DiogΓ¨ne''.<ref>Whaley, p. 8.</ref> During his stay at the reformatory, he began writing a lengthy poem that he published anonymously more than two years later in May 1789 at the very outbreak of the Revolution. The 21-year-old Saint-Just thereby added his own touch to the social tumult of the times with ''Organt, poem in twenty cantos''.{{efn|On its title page, the book is "mischievously dedicated to the Vatican",<ref>Scurr, p. 120.</ref> and thus sometimes referred to as ''Organt au Vatican''.}} The poem, a medieval epic fantasy relaying the quest of young Antoine Organt, extols the virtues of primitive man, praising his [[libertinism]] and independence whilst blaming all present-day troubles on modern inequalities of wealth and power.<ref>Hampson, pp. 16β17.</ref> Written in a style mimicking [[Ludovico Ariosto|Ariosto]],<ref name=Brink105>Ten Brink, p. 105.</ref> the work foreshadowed its author's future political extremism. Spiked with brutal satire and scandalous pornographic episodes, it also unmistakably attacked the [[House of Bourbon|monarchy]], the [[French nobility|nobility]], and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]].<ref name=Palmer10>Palmer, p. 10.</ref>[/td]
[td]Saint-Just had shown a precocious fascination with literature,<ref>Vinot (edition Fayard), p. 59.</ref> and he wrote works of his own including a one-act play ''Arlequin DiogΓ¨ne''.<ref>Whaley, p. 8.</ref> During his stay at the reformatory, he began writing a lengthy poem that he published anonymously more than two years later in May 1789 at the very outbreak of the Revolution. The 21-year-old Saint-Just thereby added his own touch to the social tumult of the times with ''Organt, poem in twenty cantos''.{{efn|On its title page, the book is "mischievously dedicated to the Vatican",<ref>Scurr, p. 120.</ref> and thus sometimes referred to as ''Organt au Vatican''.}} The poem, a medieval epic fantasy relaying the quest of young Antoine Organt, extols the virtues of primitive man, praising his [[libertinism]] and independence whilst blaming all present-day troubles on modern inequalities of wealth and power.<ref>Hampson, pp. 16β17.</ref> Written in a style mimicking [[Ludovico Ariosto|Ariosto]],<ref name=Brink105>Ten Brink, p. 105.</ref> the work foreshadowed its author's future political extremism. Spiked with brutal satire and scandalous pornographic episodes, it also unmistakably attacked the [[House of Bourbon|monarchy]], the [[French nobility|nobility]], and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]].<ref name=Palmer10>Palmer, p. 10.</ref>[/td]
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