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The Vendee Massacre: Europe's forgotten Shoah
YOUTUBE ^ | Mainestategop

Posted on 06/15/2016 4:51:27 PM PDT by mainestategop

An awesome documentary on the Vendee uprising and the massacre of catholics in France in the French Revolution

The Vendee is a taboo in France. It is nearly forgotten but thankfully isn't. In 1793, after the execution of Louis XVI, Catholic Farmers in the Vendee region of France revolted against the newly formed godless republic headed by Robbspierre. The response by the newly created republic was monstrous. Over Half a milllion people, men women children and elderly were put to death by the government for opposing it and for promoting Catholic faith. Very few acknowledged its existence, John Paul II spoke of the Vendee when visiting France to dedicate the anniversary of the baptism of France's King Clovis and Alexander Solzhtyn mentioned it in his works. The Vendee is a shining example of the dangers of trusting government. The term Democide was invented to describe it. The wiping out of entire peoples in the name of ideology.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: america; catholic; communism; crime; democide; democracy; ewtn; france; freedom; frenchrevolution; genocide; history; holocaust; huguenot; liberalism; louisxvi; martyrdom; massacre; nantes; napoleon; saints; shoah; uprising; vendee
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1 posted on 06/15/2016 4:51:27 PM PDT by mainestategop
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To: mainestategop

The first socialist revolution...

Ends in massive slaughtering of its own citizens.

To be repeated everytime it is tried


2 posted on 06/15/2016 4:54:21 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: mainestategop

Ann Barnhardt’s also discussed this.

Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMLoLtFn6s


3 posted on 06/15/2016 5:00:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Bfl


4 posted on 06/15/2016 5:01:50 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: mainestategop

General Westermann reported back to Paris:

“The Vendée is no more ... According to your orders, I have trampled their children beneath our horses’ feet; I have massacred their women, so they will no longer give birth to brigands. I do not have a single prisoner to reproach me. I have exterminated them all.” https://books.google.com/books?id=3PsLXeDflfMC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=The+Vend%C3%A9e+is+no+more+...+According+to+your+orders,+I+have+trampled+their+children+beneath+our+horses%27+feet;+I+have+massacred+their+women,+so+they+will+no+longer+give+birth+to+brigands.+I+do+not+have+a+single+prisoner+to+reproach+me.+I+have+exterminated+them+all&source=bl&ots=DQgs-P6VnD&sig=BB9E58Zvgf9arWLTg35tOoY1XCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHs__Vn6vNAhVU02MKHU8KApkQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=The%20Vend%C3%A9e%20is%20no%20more%20...%20According%20to%20your%20orders%2C%20I%20have%20trampled%20their%20children%20beneath%20our%20horses’%20feet%3B%20I%20have%20massacred%20their%20women%2C%20so%20they%20will%20no%20longer%20give%20birth%20to%20brigands.%20I%20do%20not%20have%20a%20single%20prisoner%20to%20reproach%20me.%20I%20have%20exterminated%20them%20all&f=false


5 posted on 06/15/2016 5:03:07 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: mainestategop

Monarchy had to go. Monarchs insist that they do not stand for elections, so the only way to remove them is violence. Their own fault.


6 posted on 06/15/2016 5:03:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: mainestategop

Suppressed to appease the Left. Just like King Louis never being canonized as a martyr.

The Vendée can’t be publicized because it destroys the myth of the French Revolution.


7 posted on 06/15/2016 5:04:02 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: vladimir998

Tinyurl.com is your friend. Those long URLs really mess up page renders for many.


8 posted on 06/15/2016 5:05:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2banana
Yup. And coming soon to America G-d forbid...

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!


9 posted on 06/15/2016 5:08:47 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: 2banana

Bingo. The French Revolution was extraordinarily different from the American. All the shouts of Liberte! Fraternite! Egalite! in the world won’t change the totalitarian nature of the French Revolution, and the fact that it led directly to Napoleon, Marx, and the 20th Century Communists.


10 posted on 06/15/2016 5:09:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2banana
This: Louis d'Elbée
He is famous for his actions after the Battle of Chemillé, on 11 April 1793: after the insurgents' victory, many of them planned to avenge their dead and slaughter the Republican prisoners (approx. 400). D'Elbée tried to prevent them, and eventually asked them to recite the Our Father, which they did; then, when they had reached the sentence "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us", he interrupted them with the words: "Do not lie to God!". Moved by this reproach, his men turned away, and d'Elbée was able to save the prisoners. This episode has since become known as "Le Pater d'Elbée" (d'Elbée's Pater Noster).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_d%27Elbée

Louis d'Elbée and his troops subsequently received no mercy from the Revolutionaries...

Draw your own conclusions concerning our times .....
11 posted on 06/15/2016 5:10:33 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: mainestategop

but before that there was the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Aug 24, 1572 when the French king and the Catholic Church murdered tens of thousands of Huguenots in Paris and New Rochelle...

The siege on New Rochelle by the French king and Cardinal Richelieu was against the French Protestants also...


12 posted on 06/15/2016 5:13:50 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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The Drownings at Nantes
(French: Noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the murders ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called "the national bathtub."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes

Draw your own conclusions concerning our times
13 posted on 06/15/2016 5:15:25 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: Tennessee Nana

explaining why my Huguenot ancestors headed for Virginia.


14 posted on 06/15/2016 5:15:26 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam vs the Free World in a death match)
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To: Pelham

Those were Catholics that the Revolution eradicated.


15 posted on 06/15/2016 5:20:02 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: mainestategop

Here’s a similar event that happened in Mexico in the 1920s—the Cristero War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War

http://www.sconews.co.uk/opinion/8644/film-will-bring-cristero-war-to-life/


16 posted on 06/15/2016 5:22:17 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: IWontSubmit

The post I was responding to was speaking of the massacre of Huguenots.


17 posted on 06/15/2016 5:30:03 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam vs the Free World in a death match)
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To: 2banana

Don’t know if she mentions it, but the “Great Fear” of 1789 made the Revolution inevitable.

I’m listening now, she talks about a “largely stable” economy and overall “contentment.” But that was not the case in the years leading up to the Revolution. Bad harvests for some years (possibly due to a volcano in Iceland) had the people terrified by 1788. The people started to suspect the government was deliberately making things worse — there was talk of a “famine plot.”

Recommended reading: Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre. There’s a paperback edition, English translation. I have one, not very old, so it must be on amazon, and probably a free e-book on google.


18 posted on 06/15/2016 5:32:21 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks.


19 posted on 06/15/2016 5:40:35 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: mainestategop

Another great analogy would be the Ukraine. Agricultural, and that’s where the genocide happened in the ‘30s.


20 posted on 06/15/2016 5:41:58 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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