French Revolution??
The fact the French Revolution included decapitations of members of the former regime gives me pause...
And now, let us take a moment to hear from the French.
From LETTERS FROM A POET OF PARIS.
Translated from Lettres d’un poète parisien, by Udolphe de l’Ennui.
My dear L——,
Spring has come, and I feel the gentle breeze wafting through the open window. Petals flutter like pink fairy wings from the apple tree in the garden. How I hate the spring! It is worse than an abomination: it is a commonplace…
Did you imagine that I should be enchanted by your descriptions of the wines of Sauternes, which you call sweet as honey, with all the fruits of the orchard in the scent? Did you imagine that I cared for such things as honey or fruits? All sweetness is a monstrous lie; all fruit is stunningly audacious in its mendacity. Only in bitterness is there truth, because bitterness is the scent of death, and only in death is the truth of life revealed. I sup on wormwood: away with honey, and fruits, and marmalade, especially marmalade. Do not fail to send more of Mlle de V——’s excellent marmalade, so that I may despise it…
The greengrocer is pushing his cart up the street, singing happily to himself. The imbecile! What is it to me if he dances on the bridge at Avignon? I despise dancing, and I despise bridges. Nor do I care much for Avignon… The birds also are singing, and they are imbeciles as well, but they have the good sense not to dance, even on bridges…
The treacherous sun, with cowardly stealth, has inched its way across the sky again, and now floods my chamber with its rays. How it mocks me! It grows stronger little by little every day, while I must grow weaker for my art: weaker and weaker, wasting away. Already I have scarcely the life in me to get up and shut the blind… I lie on my couch, immobile, and I feel I must die; I know it. But send the marmalade anyway, in case I am wrong.
Yours in misery of soul,
Udolphe.
P.S.—Give my love to Mme L—— and all the little L——s.
Although this letter was written satirically, the sentiment about sums it up.
i don’t believe that the messiah relizes what type of revolution and by whom he is stirring up.........
It seems the Jacobins have seized power-- can the Reign of Terror be far behind...or will we jump straight to Napoleon?
Those guillotined also included Christians in general and Catholics in particular. Priests and religious were executed just for the fact that they were Catholic. During the Reign of Terror, the streets literally ran with blood, as the executions were non-stop throughout the daylight hours. The atheist movement within the Revolution was successful in even wiping out vestiges of Chrisitanity in the calendar, by redoing it with 10-day weeks (so that Sunday could not be kept), different month names, and different day names.
The book “To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794” by William Bush is a vivid illustration of just exactly what went on during the Reign of Terror. Unlike some accounts of the French Revolution which have portrayed it as some kind of noble endeavor, this book utilizes eye-witness accounts and historical facts to show the violent destruction - which was horrific.
“Dialogues des Carmélites,” a French opera by Francis Poulenc is another recounting of the story of the Martyrs of Compiegne.
Obama’s insistance on the destruction of babies in the womb makes him today’s version of Robespierre, and the pro-abortion Democrats are the Committee of Public Safety. Nancy Pelosi’s comment that the economy would be helped by preventing babies from being born is in the same mindset as Robespierre’s statement that “Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country’s most urgent needs.” 5 Feb. 1794