Posted on 01/28/2020 8:02:12 PM PST by NRx
Solemn Requiem Mass according to the traditional Roman Rite offered for the murdered King Louis XVI of France. The King was America's first ally and it may reasonably be argued that without his aid, we might not have won our War of Independence.
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Well if we won we were going to be helping them out too, they weren’t exactly buddies with the English. They were certainly able to operate in the new world a lot easier with Britain walloped for awhile.
Ping
With the exception of some islands in the Caribbean, France had already lost most of her American colonies.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy.
Oh, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Edmund Burke - 1793
Well they had quite a bit of land in the midsection of america that we bought for 2 million dollars in the early 1800s.
A great speech.
Did you recognize the book/author I quoted from above? It’s the first paragraph.
Did not think I would ever owe a crowned monarch any thanks for the success of our Revolution, but King Louis XVI of France did exactly that for us.
His Christian martyrdom at the hands of bloody murdering Jacobins should be remembered by all Americans.
I did. One of Mr. Dickens’ many great works.
That land was acquired from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. The short French dictator basically turned around and flipped it.
Yes.
Your statement changes nothing about mine, if you read it.
Worth reposting on this occasion...
King Louis XVI last testament.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3809997/posts
Do you know which church in France held the Mass?
Let’s hope they don’t suddenly catch fire.
George Washington acknowledges France’s role in independence (March 1790):
“I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. And I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revolution, and the establishment of their Government; or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.”
A “Tale of two cities “ of course.
When and where was this mass offered?
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