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To: Jan_Sobieski

The French Revolution was horrific. Also, the vast majority of the Founding Fathers didn’t support the French Revolution. They refused to help.

Stoking the Fire: Celebrating the Atrocities of the French Revolution
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/25376-stoking-the-fire-celebrating-the-atrocities-of-the-french-revolution

Bastille Day Is Nothing to Celebrate
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/23611-bastille-day-is-nothing-to-celebrate


27 posted on 04/27/2018 2:10:34 PM PDT by WisconsinRep
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To: WisconsinRep

The Declaration Of Rights Of Man and the Citizen of 1791 owed much of its inspiration to Thomas Jefferson.

Its still the cardinal statement of liberal values in its declaration of the rule of law, human equality and the basic principle freedom means doing what the law allows, not what it forbids.

Everything about the world we live in today comes from it and it in one swell swoop, it rung the curtain down on the old medieval order.


29 posted on 04/27/2018 2:18:40 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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