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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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.
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
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.
Part of this to smear the United States, making it unappealing for reshoring of manufacturing.
Bastille Day and The French Revolution. A Parisian mob storms a prison, lets out a few criminals and then everybody started losing their heads.
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.
(I learned that from a Far Side cartoon.)
That slander was an old one, told of other figures before Marie Antoinette was even born.
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.
For those interested in the French Revolution here’s an excellent documentary.
Eerily similar to what’s going on today here.
You show a lack of historical knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No. The accused were not allowed lawyers.
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.
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.
Not a factual statement.
Yes, factual statement. You are aware that the European witch hunt was part of the Inquisition, right?
For the most part, witch hunts were Protestant affairs.
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