Posted on 03/26/2020 1:29:00 PM PDT by babylon_times
While we hope to never experience a revolution in our lifetime in America, it is important that we understand and learn from the revolutions of history. For part 1 of my series on revolutions, we are going to look at one of the defining revolutions in history The French Revolution of 1789. Many today wrongly believe that the French Revolution was a success. By all measures, it was rather an abject failure, delaying Frances adoption of Democracy by more than one hundred years...
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I get the same feeling...
We must be diligent, as there are many that would have us in America go through a communist revolution.
They paraded a whore through the streets of Paris in the French Revolution, as a symbol of their rejection of “revelation,” i.e., the Biblical revelation of truth; and their exaltation of “reason,” i.e., humanism, evolution, and socialism.
Bkmrk
Napoleon was an abject failure. Look what happened to the French troops that went to Russia.
Yes the Jacobins were the Bolsheviks of their time. And like when Robespierre was executed so were many of the original Bolsheviks. Lenin too if he was actually murdered by Stalin.....
I applied for a job running a guillotine in Paris. If I get it I’ll be heading there soon.
It has become the norm to present the ending of Dialogues of the Carmelites "symbolically" as in your link. Indeed, few operas are done realistically any longer these days. I much prefer to see the nuns walk up the scaffold one by one until their numbers decrease to the last two as was done HERE.
The Met also did a good one in which the nuns walk toward the back of the stage seen HERE. (This clip is very poor quality).
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