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French Revolution - Bastille Day & Reign of Terror "liberté, égalité, fraternité"
American Minute ^ | July 13, 2020 | Bill Federer

Posted on 07/14/2020 8:09:18 AM PDT by Perseverando

In 1781, 27-year-old King Louis XVI of France sent his navy and troops to help America gain independence from Britain.

In return, France gained very little, except an enormous amount of debt.

On the verge of financial collapse, France then experienced a terrible famine in 1788.

The people blamed the King.

Anti-monarchists referred to Queen Marie Antoinette as Madame Déficit.

According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, when she was told the people did not have bread, her reply was:

"Let them eat cake."

On July 14, 1789, an anarchist mob went through the streets of Paris and stormed the the Bastille Fortress which had been used as the police prison.

The king, endeavoring to be an enlightened monarch, did not forcibly respond.

Sadly, the more he showed benevolence to the unruly rioters the more they were embolden to commit violence.

On October 5, 1789, in what started as a peaceful Women's March demanding bread, escalated in a mob surrounding the King's Palace at Versailles.

The Marquis de Lafayette vainly attempted to moderate the crowd, who had found sympathy with disgruntled soldiers.

Finding an unguarded door, rioters barged in.

Two guards were killed, with one's head placed on a pike. The Queen fled through a secret passage to the King's chamber.

With the mob now numbering 60,000, the King and Queen were escorted back to Paris, where they became captives in the Royal residence called the Tuileries.

On June 20, 1791, the Royal family tried escaping by carriage at night, and almost made it out of France, but the king's face was recognized from being on a note of French currency.

One again, they were captives in the Tuileries.

Left-wing "Jacobin Club" agitators, most notably Maximilien Robespierre, whipped the city


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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Military/Veterans; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanminute; france; frenchrevolution; jacobin; robespierre; vendee; voltaire; voltairre
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To: dangus

The other trite lie is many political prisoners were freed in the storming celebrated today. A couple of forgers and five scumbags of whom one was insane. No political prisoners at all.


21 posted on 07/14/2020 9:14:56 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Perseverando

Sadly, the more he showed benevolence to the unruly rioters the more they were embolden to commit violence.

a warning to all politicians - lead no or the riots will become unstoppable


22 posted on 07/14/2020 9:19:36 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
Sadly, the more he showed benevolence to the unruly rioters the more they were embolden to commit violence.

a warning to all politicians - lead no or the riots will become unstoppable

All that's left when freedom fails
Is good men rot in filthy jails
And those who cried, "Appease! Appease!"
Are hanged by those they tried to please.

23 posted on 07/14/2020 9:25:54 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: Perseverando

Part of this to smear the United States, making it unappealing for reshoring of manufacturing.


24 posted on 07/14/2020 9:37:19 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: Perseverando

Bastille Day and The French Revolution. A Parisian mob storms a prison, lets out a few criminals and then everybody started losing their heads.


25 posted on 07/14/2020 10:10:57 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: KC Burke

Tell me about it. You should see the look on people’s faces when you tell them that the Papal Inquisition was established to establish a wall of separation of church and state (the state couldn’t try people for religious crimes and the Church couldn’t try people who didn’t claim to represent the Christian Church and also couldn’t maim, torture or kill anyone, although in certain cases, the Church surrendered “heretics” over to state authorities to try for sedition, etc.,)

The crime for which the majority of people were killed in the Spanish inquisition was actually molesting altar servers.


26 posted on 07/14/2020 10:16:49 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
What Marie Antoinette really said was "Let them eat cake and ice cream!"

(I learned that from a Far Side cartoon.)

That slander was an old one, told of other figures before Marie Antoinette was even born.

27 posted on 07/14/2020 10:29:49 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: jmacusa
The early stages of the French Revolution had relatively few people being murdered--it became much bloodier from about Sept. 1792 onwards. That's when the divergence between how the Federalists and how the Jeffersonian Republicans viewed the events in France started to become very sharp and bitter.

I was once in Carcassone, France, waiting for a train on the evening of July 14 and got to watch a very impressive fireworks display against the backdrop of the medieval fortress.

28 posted on 07/14/2020 10:33:50 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Perseverando

For those interested in the French Revolution here’s an excellent documentary.

Eerily similar to what’s going on today here.

https://youtu.be/suZdYkZ_feM


29 posted on 07/14/2020 11:08:20 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: BlackAdderess

You show a lack of historical knowledge.


30 posted on 07/14/2020 11:30:03 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8

No I don’t.

I’ve known for a decade that the Left wants the French Revolution, and I’ve read the Economist long enough to know they are being played for fools.

The French Revolution resulted in a brain drain that lasted for well over a century as a result of all the smart people who had not fled during the persecution of the Huguenots being put to the guillotine during the Revolution.

This is top down. Just like the inquisition. Deal with it.


31 posted on 07/14/2020 11:45:22 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: BlackAdderess
Just like the inquisition.

The Inquisition was a judicial process, it was a court with strict rules of evidence, you may not like the outcome, but the statement is factual. Your French Revolution was just a bunch of proto-communist killers.

32 posted on 07/14/2020 1:21:43 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8

The burden of proof left a lot to be desired in the Inquisition though. Anonymous accusers were allowed and in fact encouraged, so it bore little resemblance to what we would consider to be a judicial process today.

Plus you have powerless Everyman schmucks having their lives ruined. This is not a case of Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, and others being ruined by ravening mobs. Instead, cancel culture is coming for the powerless to make an example of them to scare everyone else into line. Little people can be ruined, like the small businesses in Minneapolis. Big businesses like Macy’s in New York just get to file an insurance claim for ruined good that did not sell during closures due to the pandemic, enabling them to move old stock they would have been stuck with otherwise.

We have the Inquisition. Not the French Revolution. The oligarchs will come out of this stronger and any notion of reshoring manufacturing ala the Trump America First agenda will suffer setbacks.

This is the Inquisition.


33 posted on 07/14/2020 1:43:12 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: BlackAdderess
Anonymous accusers were allowed

The Inquisition court provided a lawyer to defend the accused, the accused was allowed to make a list of his enemies, those thus listed could not testify against the accused. This did not occur during the French Revolution. The two are quite dissimilar.

34 posted on 07/14/2020 1:54:27 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8

No. The accused were not allowed lawyers.


35 posted on 07/14/2020 2:05:29 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: pbear8

They were also “allowed to list” people early on but if the officials had any suspicion they were lying they were “encouraged” to do so under torture.


36 posted on 07/14/2020 2:07:27 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: pbear8

The accused were also generally uneducated, the questioners otoh were educated.

Plus as I pointed out, you don’t have ANY globalist elites heads rolling in this.


37 posted on 07/14/2020 2:11:07 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: BlackAdderess
The accused were also generally uneducated

Not a factual statement.

38 posted on 07/14/2020 2:14:58 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8

Yes, factual statement. You are aware that the European witch hunt was part of the Inquisition, right?


39 posted on 07/14/2020 2:23:37 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: BlackAdderess

For the most part, witch hunts were Protestant affairs.


40 posted on 07/14/2020 2:27:17 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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