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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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First Tuesday in the first full week in November is my understanding
The coronation of Napoleon was the end of the Ist French Republic, but not the end of the Revolution, since a lot of changes weren't reversed, and new ones were introduced.$
Shave and a haircut? No Toon can resist.
edited 15th Jul '16 1:59:17 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.This may be an onion article but this is article man
, right on the nose.
It is an "apt description" that "pretty well sums up" the FR in the same way that "there's poverty and disease" is an apt description and summary of modern Africa: i.e. not at all
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The Terror was bloody and cruel, but not random. It was a political Purge. Wasn't the first of its kind, wouldn't be the last.
edited 15th Jul '16 2:10:05 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.I noticed, that the French Revolution is regarded less highly in America and Britain than it is in France itself, Switzerland or Germany. The latter were affected by it more and profited from it in one way or another.
Then there's the Double Standard of condemning the French Rebolution's humanitarian cost, but not doing so with the American Revolution.
With all its good and bad, the French Revolution happened in A) Europe, and B) one of Europe's Great Powers. Anything France did was going to affect the rest of the world's leading powers and result in a response. 13 little colonies across the Atlantic rebel? Meh, the only thing resulting from that as far as Europe was concerned was they got to give Britain a black eye. Revolution in France? That's a direct challenge to the status quo occurring right at your doorstep.
More people were killed in the Reign of Terror that Continental soldiers were killed all eight years of the American Revolutionary War. To Europe and the world that was being controlled by Europe at the time, of course one takes precedence over the other.
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The same could be said of the War Of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars. 1812 was just a not-so-major theatre of operations. Most of the British Army and Royal Navy were arranged against Napoleon.
edited 15th Jul '16 2:26:44 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnRe- The Onion link, you know things have gone crazy when The Onion is issuing a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer.
