...I would probably go with 'they' as the pronoun in that case, because it's period-attested in English as a gender neutral singular pronoun and a case could be made that Patria containeth multitudes anyway, but it's a difficult case... in actual period allegory and/or accurate French would almost certainly be "she".
Yep. But I'm a little hesitant to use Marianne-female-personification-requiring-female-pronouns and that kind of personification that feeds on... okay, I'm too asleep. But you know what I mean. ;) Especially if I have this being a really terrible abusive relationship, idk. I mean, you have the whole Helen thing, the whole flighty female. I'd rather sidestep this entirely.
She says, seriously about to write a man being used up by his country in sexual metaphor, so possibly I should quit while I'm behind. ;)
...I did spend a couple months trying to create a '19th Century Civic Allegory' fandom, it's all coming back to me now...)
I support this endeavor and would read the fic. ;)
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Yep. But I'm a little hesitant to use Marianne-female-personification-requiring-female-pronouns and that kind of personification that feeds on... okay, I'm too asleep. But you know what I mean. ;) Especially if I have this being a really terrible abusive relationship, idk. I mean, you have the whole Helen thing, the whole flighty female. I'd rather sidestep this entirely.
She says, seriously about to write a man being used up by his country in sexual metaphor, so possibly I should quit while I'm behind. ;)
...I did spend a couple months trying to create a '19th Century Civic Allegory' fandom, it's all coming back to me now...)
I support this endeavor and would read the fic. ;)