French Revolution

As was the case for the governor of the Bastille prison 234 years ago, the Macron government is — at least metaphorically — under siege.

“Louis XVI, we beheaded him, Macron, we can start again!” chanted a leftist politician as revolutionary furore rages in France.

How can the land of Liberté become just another spavined satrapy of the globalist technocratic elite’s biosecurity panopticon nightmare?

The French Revolution was the screech of a mob, much as we are seeing in several of our own cities and towns today. So let’s review this absurdly celebrated event.

Saturday on MSNBC during coverage of the riots around the country underway in the name of George Floyd’s death, MSNBC regular guest and Fordham professor Christina Greer compared the civil unrest to that which took place during the French Revolution.

When one sees the words “Joe Biden” in media commentary, one often sees, too, the word “restoration.”  As in, Biden promises—or threatens, depending on one’s point of view—to restore the days of Barack Obama.

Bre Kidman, the “queer feminist mermaid” running for a senate seat in Maine, has chosen the guillotine as branding for her campaign.

Celebrated Les Misérables director Ladj Ly has expressed his support for the ongoing anti-communist China demonstrations in Hong Kong, arguing that “sometimes violence can help you to obtain things.”

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit negotiations, suggested Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg could end up “on the guillotine” months before the current furore over claims their use of terms like “surrender” and “betrayal” is “inflammatory” and puts the lives of anti-Brexit MPs in danger. 

“Abolish ICE PDX,” an anarchist group based in Oregon, publicly executed an effigy of President Donald Trump in Portland on Tuesday using a mock guillotine and replicating one of those most familiar scenes from the French Revolution.

It has become fashionable to equate the French and American Revolutions, but they share absolutely nothing beyond the word “revolution.”
The American Revolution was a movement based on ideas, painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world. (Until Democrats decided to give it away to the Third World.)

French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting of French bishops Monday that he wished to heal Church-State relations in the country, whose particular strain of secularism (“laïcité”) was profoundly colored by the anti-clericalism of the French Revolution and its aftermath.

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Zach Dasher, nephew of Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson, joined SirusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to discuss the Cannes debut of Torchbearer, which counts both Bannon and Dasher among its production team.

Monday on his radio show, Glenn Beck called Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos “Goebbels” and  denounced one of his recent articles as “one of the more evil stories I have ever read.” He blasted Breitbart for “pushing … poison to the republic.”

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July 4th marks the climax of the American Revolution, remembered with fireworks, family, and fun. But this year, there are three other revolutions that overshadow our own. The first is the French Revolution. Unlike the Americans, who preserved their religious

June 18 will mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. Over 130,000 spectator tickets have been sold for four days of reenactments, speeches, and commemorations being held on the actual site in Belgium where 200,000 French, British, Prussian and Dutch troops once fought to decide the future of Europe.