France as a centrally directed state is about 350 years old, and contra those great centralizers Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, there always has been considerable resistance to everything being run from Paris.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My favorite version of that song is what’s incorporated in the 1812 overture.