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[edit] Death date
[1] has "On Prairial 7 (26th of April 1797) Babeuf and Darth were condemned to death; some of the prisoners, including Buonarroti, were exiled; the rest, including Vadier and his fellow-conventionals, were acquitted. Drouet had succeeded in making his escape, according to Barras, with the connivance of the Directory. Babeuf and Darth were executed at Vendme on Prairial 8 (1797)." This would give a death date of April 27. However, it looks like they were off by a month in their interpretation of the French Republican calendar and May 27, the date inserted by User:Arcturus, is correct. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:01, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] This article seems incorrect
This article seems incorrect: it tells about a bloodthirsty François-Noël Babeuf, which doesn't fit well with the texts written by him on www.marxists.org. He says to the men in power: "You will be overwhelmed, and afterwards ask yourselves: What!". If he really was that bloodthirsty, how could they ask themselves questions after being deposed? I propose we rewrite it slowly according to historical sources, so that the material from Encyclopedia Britannica is removed. Material from other encyclopediae may be used as an initial draft, but because of their political bias and secondary source character, primary historical research is to be preferred. Said: Rursus ☻ 15:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- Besides: the one and only true NPOV exists on Wikipedia only (if anywhere at all!). Amen!! Said: Rursus ☻ 15:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- More, the article says, f.ex.:
- In the circumstances it is not surprising that he became a malcontent.
- It is not up to Wikipedia to evaluate motives, just to refer to historicians that interpret his motives that way. In Britannica such a subjective statement would have been OK - not here! Said: Rursus ☻ 17:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- Babeuf did indeed call for a repeat of the September Massacres (this time around they'd have to be more thorough). "Bloodthirsty" seems pretty accurate. Just because the man held all the proper ideas about income redistribution doesn't mean he wasn't violent. In fact, the justification for the Terror was that it was needed in order to construct a "Republic of Virtue". 71.131.23.199 (talk) 13:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
