Why France is Burning

The Daily Mail and melaniephillips.com ^ | 11/07/05 | Melanie Phillips

[hosepipe]

Frances nuclear power plants are loading with weapons grade explosives.. its called fuel and spent fuel..

Wishing for France to fall is premature..

[jpsb]

You have a good point, but happily many children in the USA are home schooled, Christan schooled or private schooled. It is only the big city public schools that are a total PC farce. But there are lot's and lot's of kids in big city public schools and that is a BIG problem.

[appalachian_dweller]

Good article here. LR & Granny, can you folks ping your lists?

[EnquiringMind]

"Let them eat yellowcake"


Good one!!!

[jpsb]

Mine is a Texas Huricane ping list, so I won't ping it.

The article is very good so I can bump it from time to time.

[Dunstan McShane]

The French flouted the law which is why I say their current love of lawlessness and just doing what feels good might be traced back to this time.

Now, now, let's be fair! I wouldn't go so far as to say the French flouted the law as that the law was unclear on a couple of particulars because it had never had to be tested. The Capetians at this time had scads of daughters but no son in the direct line of succession. It was understood in those days that no daughter could inherit the crown: the question was whether she could transmit it. To my understanding, because the Capetians had for several hundred years been producing sons by the bushel, this point had never been clarified in practice. If I were a French noble, I would think twice before clarifying the point in a way that let Edward III on the French throne.

This is not so much flouting law as defining it. (No, I'm not a lawyer.)

Joan of Arc? Think she's a bit flaky myself. But a lot of people thought she was "way cool" back then too which politically is why the French used her rather than abide by law.

I will freely confess that part of my admiration of Joan of Arc derives from my having seen the old Ingrid Bergman biopic about Joan when I was a slip of a lad back in the sixties. As for her being a flake . . . well, it depends on the assumptions you have about the nature of reality and what is possible. I regard Joan as an ardent patriot and a fervent believer in God; these two things would, it is true, get one labelled as a flake nowadays in certain circles, but not in any circles I would circulate in.

Since that time, the English have been known to be more enamored by the rule of law than the French. The frenchies still have trouble enforcing the law today as we all know.

I'd cut 'em a little more slack and delay their eventual descent into cultural decrepitude till the later eighteenth century, but that's just the kinda guy I am.

[Siena Dreaming]

these two things would, it is true, get one labelled as a flake nowadays in certain circles

I admire both patriots (well, patriots in a good country that is) and fervent believers in God. But I do have trouble with Joan I'm afraid.

BTW, have you seen the recent Joan of Arc movie? I've no doubt the Ingrid Bergman version was much better. Have a good day.

[Nanny7]

LOL