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La Marseillaise

Something for the weekend.  In line with the Our Oldest Ally post earlier this week, the la marseillaise scene from Casablanca.

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Kevin J Jones
Saturday, November 29, AD 2008 2:16pm

How many were slaughtered and martyred by people singing this song?

Kevin J Jones
Saturday, November 29, AD 2008 6:25pm

“No doubt far fewer French Catholics than died in wars fostered by French kings often for dubious reasons. ”

Such as the American War of Independence?

I don’t mean to be too snarky, but there is a deep paradox in the American Republic’s dependence upon the French Monarchy.

The sentimental revolutionary spirit unleashed by the French Revolution has also done untold damage to the world, even to this day. Brief but regular acknowledgment of its victims might be warranted.

DarwinCatholic
Saturday, November 29, AD 2008 8:57pm

It’s one of the ironies of history that the French monarchy and Tsarist Russia fell to revolutions during the reign of basically well intentioned (if ineffective) rulers. And that while many reasonable people could have wished to see those regimes reformed or abolished, it was the very worst people available who took the opportunity to take power.

Bret Ramsey
Bret Ramsey
Monday, December 1, AD 2008 11:53am

I know one brave group of soldiers that fought the people who began singing that terrible song…

http://travelguide.all-about-switzerland.info/lucerne-lion-monument-pictures-history.html

Tito Edwards
Saturday, December 6, AD 2008 8:13am

I’d have to respectfully disagree with Donald on this one.

But the Sun King did not systematically kill frenchmen such as the Committee of Public Safety did. I hope you were just making generalizations and not making “moral equivalency” charges between the Sun King and the anti-christ that was Napolean.

I’m not a monarchist nor am I a proponent of the Bourban line, but I would like to see the French Republic less hostile to the faith and make some reperations to the Church. Granted there was the concordant between Napolean and the Church, but it would be nice to see the Fleur-de-lis replace the tri-color to represent Catholic France (not necessarily the Bourbons).

Tito Edwards
Saturday, December 6, AD 2008 9:03am

I knew there had to be more than just a disagreement. That makes more sense. Again I like the democratic structure of France over an absolutist rule.

My only point was the many killed during the French Revolution.

The French still don’t get it right after so many centuries in my opinion.

Thanks for the document, I’m a history buff so this is certainly enlightening.

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