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Psst. Montmarte was renamed Mont-Marat during the revolution...
Huh. Thanks for the heads up!
The English Wikipedia page on Montmartre doesn’t mention this name-change, but the French one does. However, it doesn’t tell us why Montmartre was called Montmarat. For that, we ended up at the Danish Wikipedia page on Montmartre - I’ve no idea why that one is more detailed than the others, but there you go. As a name, Montmartre means ‘Mount of the Martyr’, after the martyr St Denis, who got decapitated up the top of the hill. When the Revolution set about de-Christianising everything, they renamed Montmartre to Montmarat, to celebrate the famed journalist and Montagnard politician Jean-Paul Marat. This guy lived from 1743 to 1793, when he was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin supporter radicalised against the Montagnards. I’m not able to find anything on the exact date when this name-change took place, but all of the sources I have found describe the name change as happening in honour of the fallen Marat - which suggests sometime after July 1973. I’m also not finding any specific dates on the return to ‘Montmartre’, except that it was pretty quick. Best guess: end of the Revolution with the rise of Napoleon in 1799.
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Wow! Like the Sandman, we’ve been away for a while. Unlike the Sandman, we haven’t been looking for Destruction - nor are we anthropomorphic personifications with spiky black hair that curiously resembles that of its creator. We are, however, quite fond of the little man in the background with the hairdo that looks like a tricorn hat.
They say good things come to those who wait. We’ve missed you…
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Read through our Lady Johanna tag, or recall the manor's appearance in Preludes and Nocturnes.
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Read Neil’s blog entry here, or hunt through The Barbary Coast on Amazon and let us know if you find anything.
Fascinating to see that inside of THE BARBARY COAST has vanished from Google Books, and that the embed of the edition that had the info has gone.
If you search inside the book on Amazon you get…
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Anonymous asked:
Is the name "Corinthian" referring to something?
Hey there!
We've actually written a post on this one - check it out here.
There's some more information on the name in Hy Bender's Sandman Companion - if your local library or something has a copy, it's worth checking out.