What’s today?
Bastille Day.
Now, that was an insurrection.
And by the way:
In 1790, Lafayette gave the wrought-iron, one-pound and three-ounce key to the Bastille to U.S. President George Washington. Washington displayed it prominently at government facilities and events in New York and in Philadelphia until shortly before his retirement in 1797. The key remains on display at Washington’s residence of Mount Vernon.
Palloy [the man in charge of disassembling the Bastille a few months after the storming] also took bricks from the Bastille and had them carved into replicas of the fortress, which he sold, along with medals allegedly made from the chains of prisoners.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Wiki:
…Despite these changes, the Bastille remained a state prison, subject to special authorities, answering to the monarch of the day and surrounded by a considerable and threatening reputation.
Remind anyone else of a current detention facility?
Isn’t it nice that M. le Président de la République française has graciously allowed son peuple to celebrate la fête nationale— with due caution, bien sûr.
“This year [virus] fears are still lurking, but the government decided to go ahead with the parade on the Champs-Élysées anyway, as part of a broader effort to return to pre-pandemic activity. . . . The number of onlookers was limited, and they were restricted to a small section of the parade. In addition, each person attending had to show a special pass proving they have been fully vaccinated, had recently recovered from the virus or a had negative virus test. Similar restrictions will be in place for those gathering to watch an elaborate fireworks show at the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday evening. . . . Masks were ubiquitous among the smaller-than-usual crowds along the avenue, and de rigueur for the dignitaries watching the show under a red-white-and-blue awning emulating the French flag. The marching soldiers were unmasked — the French military said they have all been fully vaccinated or freshly tested for the virus.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-cautiously-celebrates-bastille-day-clouded-by-virus/ar-AAM8Du8
The onlookers should have all been issued little white flags. I can’t be the only person who is reminded of the parade down the Champs-Élysées in June 1940:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_EuUcVD_pU&t=88s&ab_channel=CriticalPast
A more morbid remembrance.
Yeah, they attacked a symbol of their oppression. Just like now. There were only 7 prisoners inside when the Bastille was stormed. 4 were common criminals and 3 were incarcerated at the request of their families. Historically, it had housed political prisoners.
“There were only 7 prisoners inside when the Bastille was stormed.”
If the Marquis de Sade hadn’t been transferred to an insane asylum at Charenton on July 4, 1789, he would have been the eighth prisoner present when the mob stormed the Bastille. He was transferred to the asylum because he had been inciting the crowd gathered around the prison in the early days of July by shouting that the authorities were killing the prisoners.
I have been a Napoleonic era aficionado for 40 years and had no idea the key was in VA.
https://france-amerique.com/en/the-bastille-key-a-french-relic-in-america/
Neo I thought this is where the link was going.
I have always pinned Leftism start was this, just our Leftists only work on Equality, and don’t really do that a good job on that.
Over 100 people including the guy in charge of the prison were killed in the scrum.
A symbolic victory resulting in freeing 7 people who should have been locked up in exchange for 100 dead people.
Antifan logic.
Some time ago I came across [the] La Marseillaise on YouTube.
Though, like everyone else, I had been long familiar with the tune, I had never looked at the translated lyrics before. Apparently it was written to rouse the early Revolutionary forces to repel Prussian and Austrian troops invading to restore the old regime, or at least limit the spread of revolution.
I had never realized how relatively bloodthirsty the lyrics were compared to “Amber waves of grain”, “Land of the Pilgrim’s pride”, or even “bombs bursting in air”.
It is the essence of course of the revolutionary mentality to know – or to recognize, anyway – no limits; neither God’s, nor anyone else’s. The unfettered or undisciplined general will [however conceived or determined] is sovereign and accountable to no one and to no thing other than itself. Progress or “evolution” is imagined as tidying up the rest.
It’s really the moral essence of progressivism as well.
Neo said, “Bastille Day.
Now, that was an insurrection.”
Following up on Neo’s thread from July 12 about LEGO crimes, I wondered whether anyone has ever made a LEGO model of the Bastille and the 1789 insurrection. Yep, someone did– in 1999. You can see the model, complete with mob action, here: http://carneycastle.com/Bastille/
The author has even provided a layout guide if you want to build your own LEGO Bastille.
“Wiki: …Despite these changes, the Bastille remained a state prison, subject to special authorities, answering to the monarch of the day and surrounded by a considerable and threatening reputation.”
“Remind anyone else of a current detention facility?” OlderandWheezier
Indeed. The democrats have created an American Bastille. A veritable dungeon, where due process is nonexistent.
And but for a few, Congress is silent…
It’s going to be fun watching the French Establishment pull every trick in the book to keep Marine Le Pen from getting over the line in 2022. She’s likely got more friends in the upper reaches of the French military than any Deplorable could muster amongst the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon, so there’s that.
“China threatens nuclear war if US continues investigating COVID-19 origins”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/china-threatens-nuclear-war-if-us-continues-michael-ledeen/
Hmm. That sound remarkably like “The DOJ will threaten anyone who denies, refutes or even questions the results of the 2020 elections….”
(Well, we may not be there quite yet, not quite—though look at what was done to Giuliani; and look how the media/infotech giants censor the news and manipulate their search engines. Nonetheless, this appears to be the trajectory…if the party that stole those elections insist on getting their way.)
Oh and one can totally understand them. And their POV. (And their abject fear.)
Totally. (As in totalitarianly…)