[ClearCase_guy]

Western Civilization took a heavy blow when the French monarchy was destroyed by anti-clerical socialists. So much of European history for the past 200 years is merely the reverberation of the explosion.

[dfwgator]

That's no way to get ahead in life.
Not worth losing one's head over.
It's a shame she wasn't more headstrong.
She'll never be the head of a major corporation.
_{"That'll do, Austin."}

[sarasota]

Kirstin Dunst looks nothing like the woman in the sketches. Dunst will play Marie A in the forthcoming film.

[Westbrook]

Constrast and compare the American War for Independence with the French Revolution, not even twenty years apart.

In the former, the rebelling colonials relied upon God, and invoked the name of Jesus.

In the latter, the rebelling French mocked the Christian faith and openly murdered nuns and priests and destroyed churches.

At one point, the French revolutionaries took a common whore, placed upon her naked frame a sash proclaiming her to be "La Deite de Raison" and set her up on the altar of a Catholic church, bowing to her in mock worship.

The French Revolution was the first Communist Revolution.

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[verum ago]

yet another entry into the new trend of irreverant historical action figures

[Global2010]

I thought Marie Antonette was a movie actress from the 40's didn't know she was a Queen who was beheaded.

So was she guilty of incest or did her enemies set her up to execute her?

[yankeedame]

Oh, I forgot to FYI that that frown you see on her face in that pencil drawing by David was not one of contempt or scorn. It seems she suffered a mild stroke a day or two before her execution, this caused part of her face to "droop".

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Thanks for this post - reading a book on "The Terror" now - unfortunately it takes a very pro-revolutionary bias - as if all those folks deserved to have their heads chopped off. I actually trace all the madness back to the "enlightenment" - that was the equivalent of Eve biting into the apple - once man is deemed as being either perfect or perfectable - watch out! Of course the islamofascists' solution of theocracy is no good either. The Pope nailed it when he said the greatest good is served when faith is combined with logos - a balance is truly needed.

[Continental Soldier]

It seems to me that Marie Antoinette was a simple young woman who was easilly spoiled in royalty, and who made a very convenient symbol for all that was wrong with France. That France was never able to conclude or resolve its own revolution tells us more than we need to know about its intellectual and philosophical leadership. More and more, the American Revolution, with so many great minds devoted to it, looks like a one time deal.

[TheRealDBear]

Rush--"Bastille Day"

There's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth

But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode by

And we're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise

Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast

For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys