The House of Aumont and Blake’s French Revolution

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Blake - An Illustrated Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.47761/biq.321

Matthew M. Davis

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In William Blake’s French Revolution (1791) there is a minor character who is identified only as “Aumont.” He makes his first appearance in lines 159-67, where he informs King Louis XVI and the nobles that the Abbé de Seyes has left the assembly hall and is making his way to the palace to speak to them. Aumont is mentioned a second time in lines 198-201, when Seyes actually arrives. In W. H. Stevenson’s annotated edition of Blake’s poetry, a footnote identifies this character as “the Duke of Aumont, later a commander of the National Guard in Paris, and in charge of the troops leading Louis from Versailles to Paris on 5 October [1789]—which B[lake] probably saw as a pro-revolutionary act, contradicting Aumont’s earlier membership in the Second Estate of Nobility.” Stevenson’s notes have been of great use to me over the years, but I have doubts about the usefulness of this particular note. For starters, I am not convinced that Stevenson has identified the right member of the House of Aumont, and even if he has identified the right individual, I feel confident that he has not selected the most relevant episode from that person’s life to highlight.

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奥蒙特家族和布莱克的法国大革命

在威廉·布莱克的《法国大革命》(1791年)中，有一个小角色，只被称为“奥蒙”。他第一次出现是在第159-67行，他告诉国王路易十六和贵族们，塞耶修道院院长已经离开了议会厅，正前往宫殿与他们谈话。第198-201行第二次提到了奥蒙特，也就是塞耶斯出现的时候。在w·h·史蒂文森对布莱克诗歌的注释版中，一个脚注将这个人物定义为“奥蒙特公爵，后来是巴黎国民自卫军的指挥官，并在[1789年]10月5日率领路易从凡尔赛到巴黎的部队——B[lake]可能认为这是一个支持革命的行为，与奥蒙特早期的贵族第二等级成员身份相矛盾。”多年来，史蒂文森的笔记对我非常有用，但我对这张特别的笔记的有用性持怀疑态度。首先，我不相信史蒂文森找到了正确的奥蒙特众议院议员，即使他找到了正确的人，我也有信心他没有选择那个人生活中最相关的一段来强调。

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期刊介绍： Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly was born as the Blake Newsletter on a mimeograph machine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Edited by Morton D. Paley, the first issue ran to nine pages, was available for a yearly subscription rate of two dollars for four issues, and included the fateful words, "As far as editorial policy is concerned, I think the Newsletter should be just that—not an incipient journal." The production office of the Newsletter relocated to the University of New Mexico when Morris Eaves became co-editor in 1970, and then moved with him in 1986 to its present home at the University of Rochester.