Ce fut en ce jour, il ya tres, tres, longtemps, que la monarchie francaise fut brutalement assassine par les sans culottes. Maintenant, la France est une Republique. En Angleterre, ils garderent leur famille royale jusqu'a nos jours. C'est marrant non? Tu trouves pas, hein?
It was on this day, a long, long, time ago, that the french monarchy was brutaly assassinated by the sans culottes. Today, France is a Republic. In England, they have kept their royal family up until now. That's funny isn't it? Don't you think, huh?
Respect to the victims of last week's atrocities in London and Baghdad.
#14 July 2005
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'brutally assassinated by the sans culottes', well in all my years of studying history I have never come across that interpretation of the French revolution. I always thought it was about 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'!
And don't forget that us brits 'brutally assassinated' good king charlie 150 years before the french and if it wasn't for the pathetic Richard Cromwell we may have remained a republic .
Hasta la victoria sempre
Posted by: | 5:12pm 14 July 2005
OK, I only have very basic French, but "sans culottes" means "without trousers", right?
Posted by: Serge | 5:30pm 14 July 2005
Indeed serge, funny for someone with such a gallic name to have such limited knowledge. 'san culottes' refers to the third estate of french society - the artisans and workers who were so fed up with their lot that they decided to lop off the king's head. Vive la revolution!
Posted by: dan | 8:19pm 14 July 2005
I agree nameless, but its interpreted the same way as, oh, say:
"Today in Iraq, 40 insurgents were neutralised"
And
"Today in Iraq, 40 civilians were murdered"
Doesn't sound the same but means the same thing.
Posted by: Ken Masters | 8:36pm 14 July 2005
Rounding up an entire family and chopping off their heads in front of thousands could be considered a brutal assassination.
Just because it was the just thing to do, doesn't mean that it wasn't brutal. They could have easily have locked them up or sent them into exile.
Posted by: Anne Again | 9:01pm 14 July 2005
Do you think the Germans called the French Resistance "insurgents" during WW2?
You bet your ass they did.
Posted by: Ken Masters | 12:04am 15 July 2005
I think it was the assassination bit that bothered me, it was a regicide, a planned execution rather than some kind of surprise attack
Posted by: dan | 7:03pm 16 July 2005
I'm sorry it bothered you. I'll take care in my writing next time. Its just I get so fired up sometimes, I just want to bash my head against a fucking brick wall (concrete is too smooth). Also, my english isn't too hot at the moment. Something to do with alcohol content in my body.
Easy Son
Posted by: Ken | 10:55pm 16 July 2005
respect ken. It's that old history teacher in me! note to self - all work and no play makes dan a dull boy!
Posted by: dan | 8:15am 18 July 2005
on the subject, vive Georges Jaques Danton (1759-1794) whose last words before being guillotined were "Tu montreras ma tête au peuple, elle en vaut bien la peine", or, "Make sure you show my head to the people- it's worth seeing"
Posted by: Al Peters | 11:27am 18 July 2005
hahhahah. Nice one Al!
Posted by: Ken | 4:40pm 18 July 2005
Je les nique tous de toute facon.
Aujourd'hui si c'etait la prise de la Bastille dans mon royaume 'y aurait des sans strings et des sans soutifs. Le gouv' ne sait point jouer le jeu et quand ils auront foutu le dawa partout, ces especes de guignoles ne pourront jamais se sauver.
Unity with one love, all faith but never hate.
herbe
Posted by: Herbie 2 provence | 5:47pm 19 July 2005