“The French Revolution is the archetype and model for all future efforts to implement Progressive ideals once power has been seized.” Thus Joseph Moore. Read on …
Let us take this day as a vigorous reminder of what insane partisanship and unscrupulous ideological fanaticism can do with historical facts. To sum up: A mob killed a few retirees and cripples who were guarding a prison holding a few upper-crust criminals and crazy people, and set them free in the name of liberté, égalité, fraternité. Vive la révolution! I guess. And this has become the great event that marks France’s joining the ranks of countries that have slaughtered tens of thousands of their own unarmed citizens because they failed to get with the Enlightenment program. Or something.
As Tonio-K put it: but just because we’re hypnotized, that don’t mean we can’t dance!
On the reality side of things, there are the Vendee Martyrs. As reported in the Telegraph:
In early 1794 – at the height of the Reign of Terror – French soldiers marched to the Atlantic…
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