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To: hellbender

Uh, no. France is a mess because the first secular revolution against God, the French Revolution, wrecked it.


47 posted on 06/19/2009 6:30:54 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480
France was a mess even before the Revolution, because the intelligent, entrepreneurial, middle-class elements, who were predominantly Huguenots, were exterminated or driven out, where they contributed enormously to whatever country took them in. What was left was a corrupt Church, worthless hedonistic aristocrats, an absolute monarch and his toadies, and vengeful proletarians and peasants.

The situation was very different in predominantly Protestant England, where a series of lesser revolutions and civil wars produced an evolution toward parliamentary representative government.

61 posted on 06/19/2009 7:12:45 PM PDT by hellbender
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