The first socialist revolution...
Ends in massive slaughtering of its own citizens.
To be repeated everytime it is tried
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
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.
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.
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...
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/
Another great analogy would be the Ukraine. Agricultural, and that’s where the genocide happened in the ‘30s.
Very timely post, being just two days away from the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Some hold that Napoleon might have won that battle if only he had another 10,000 troops. But wait, even as he massed his armies against the Allies, he felt obliged to divert somewhere between 10,000-25,000 of his best troops (the Army of the West - Armée de l’Ouest - under General Lamarque) to the Vendée to suppress the populace.
(The Battle of Rocheserviere between the Vendeans and Lamarque took place on 20 June, two days after Napoleons defeat at Waterloo, at the time news had not reached either party.)
It needs to be widely remembered. Thanks for posting this.
Catholic ping!