France Plans Napoleonland Theme Park

The Telegraph UK ^ | 1/20/2012 | Henry Samuel 

[Cronos]

I agree with you slightly, but I’d like to hear your opinion — why did he decimate th eFrench nation? In my opinion the French Revolution did that — Napoleon just took advantage of that, if he hadn’t and no other “strong man” had turned up, the neighboring countries would have torn France to pieces — not that that wouldn’t have been a good thing!!!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Napoleon would be too short to be able to go on any of the rides, if he were alive today.

[rarestia]

I’m on your side, Cincinna. Napoleon changed much of the European landscape during his reign. Hell, even Hitler made positive strides with the Autobahn and VW. There are positives and negatives to every authoritarian leader, but the negatives usually outweigh any other. It really comes down to which side you were on.

[cunning_fish]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>I agree with you slightly, but I’d like to hear your opinion — why did he decimate th eFrench nation? In my opinion the French Revolution did that — Napoleon just took advantage of that, if he hadn’t and no other “strong man” had turned up, the neighboring countries would have torn France to pieces — not that that wouldn’t have been a good thing!!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ok, Revolution and Napoleon killed the Frenchman.
Revolution killed the elites, every man with guts left was put under Russian-Austrian bullets to perish in a reckless invasion to German and Russian lands.

Underclass cowards made generations known as liberals today survived. They given a French and Europe in general a bad name.

[Cincinna]

  

The French Revolution killed far more regular folks than elites. It butchered and slaughter innocent people, rich and poor, powerful and powerless, of all ages, from children to the elderly, from aristocrats to bakers, shopkeepers,  and children working for them. The guillotine on what is now la Place de La Concorde, then Place de la Revolution, had but one of many, many guillotines all over France that operated 24/7 for almost two years slaughtering people.   

The parents of our own American hero, General Lafayette were sent to the guillotine-They were in their eighties.    

One of the Revolution's main goals was the destruction of the Catholic Church, and they looted, pillaged and destroyed churches with abandon. One of their most horrific legacies is the murder of nun's and priests, and the destruction of convents and monasteries, and all those within       

A visit to the Picpus Cemetery, in the middle if Paris, where Lafayette is buried, says it all. There are common graves for thousands slaughtered in the Revolution.    

An American flag flies over Lafayette's grave in perpetuity, at his request.     

TOMB OF LAFAYETTE

MARKER ON A COMMON GRAVE AT PICPUS CEMETERY

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[N. Theknow]

They should try to keep expenses down so they don’t come up short.

[KarlInOhio]

Will they recreate the Battle of Borodin? The preface to Moscow, where le Grand Armee was routed?

The French won at Borodino and took Moscow, but without supplies they had to retreat in about a month over the land they already plundered on the way in. That led to starvation of both the men and horses and the forced abandonment of wagons and cannons. A starving army with just infantry is then easy pickings for a supplied army which has cavalry and artillery.

[KC_Lion]

The Jacobin Terror was one of the most egregious crimes ever thrust on a Nation, sadly many (mostly leftists) took this as an inspiration rather than a warning, if you kill enough people eventually you will win.

Thankfully the Right is in ascendance in France...at least for now....

[Cincinna]

I refuse to celebrate this bloodbath and never will observe “Bastille Day”
“le quatorze Juillet”, the French National holiday . I refuse to sing the bloody French National Anthem “La Marseillaise”
Many of my ancestors who escaped the Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre, the mass murder of Protestants, had many of their descendants murdered by the bloodthirsty Revolution.
The bloody Left in France has dominated the culture since the Revolution and is the cause of France’s decline.
EN BAS LA GAUCHE!

“La Marseillaise” “The Song of Marseille” is the national anthem of France. The song, originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin” (”War Song for the Army of the Rhine”) was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic’s anthem in 1795. The name of the song is due to first being sung on the streets by volunteers from Marseille.

The song is the first example of the “European march” anthemic style. The anthem’s evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music 

  Here it is translated into English:
  (It’s much much bloodier and cruel in French)

Let’s go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!
Refrain
Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

[IronJack]

The French won at Borodino and took Moscow,

The French "won" a pyrrhic victory at Borodin, one that cut their army to ribbons and bought the Russians time enough to abandon Moscow and put the city to the torch. When Napoleon entered the city, discipline in his ranks fell apart and the men spent the next month pillaging what remained of Moscow's treasures. When the Little General realized that he was trapped thousands of miles from home with no supplies, he had to try to organize a retreat under the most stringent circumstances imaginable. His army was destroyed in the process and he returned to Paris with a fragment of his original force.

The Russians played their hand brilliantly; Napoleon's leadership fell apart. And Borodin set the stage for the entire tragedy.

[KC_Lion]

Agree you 100% Cincinna, the vile Jacobin-Paris Commune that has infected Frances blood since the 1800's has cause much grief, too what was the center of the Western World.

We cannot let that happen here in the USA, hell in Revolutionary France they even changed their calendar system!

The Leftist in our country will want to sing songs on how they sent us to our doom, However, I know we are not content to let ourselves go the Way of France before us, and we are also determined to get France back!

[Cincinna]

On this 21 Pluviose, I salute you! May the months of Fructidor and Thermidor be plentiful. The goal: remove all references to religion from the culture. !
Reminds me of scenes from Woody Allen’s “Bananas” 1971, a satire on tyrannical governments.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Comment peut-on dire << Gens de Robe>> en anglais?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Once things got going in France there were reactions to reactions to reactions.

Napoleon would not have been possible in all likelihood without the revolution, but that is not saying the same thing as Napoleon was the same thing as the revolution.

First there was the Revolution, followed by the Terror, followed by the Directory, followed by the Consulate, followed by the Empire.

One can pin all sorts of wrongs to Napoleon and bloodshed, but I can’t see assigning the bloodshed of the Jacobins and the Terror to him.

[Cincinna]

The term “gens de la robe” refers to judges and lawyers.

In the XVIII century, they wore special long robes, similar to those worn by clergy.
Even to this day, the robes all have 33 buttons, signifying the number of years Christ lived on this Earth.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Merci.