and he should be!

That didn’t go so well.

"The centerpiece is the Paris parade beneath the Napoleon-era Arc de Triomphe and along the Champs-Elysees, which inspired Trump to stage his own parade last year."

Remember that parade? The one hardly anybody went to? The one with the squeaky tank? He might not want to be reminded.

And the game was held in the USA, so of course we weren’t represented at their celebration. They had advance knowledge of the outcome, you see, and they blame us.

and hoping for my own country will STAND UP and FIGHT BACK!!!

The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to the Federalist revolts, revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. While terror was never formally instituted as a legal policy by the Convention, it was more often employed as a concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

and it made me appreciate the song even more. I don't speak French and find their language so melodic. It almost clashes with the violent lyrics but it ends up being a perfect combination.

The founders ended up killing each other and it was a clusterfuck.

but it eventually led to the abolition in France of slavery, feudalism, and the monarchy and eliminated much of the influence of the Catholic Church on the government. The immediate outcome was the rise of Napoleon, who rolled back some of these changes (restored the nobility and reintroduced slavery on the colonies, among other things) but also created a code of laws. The revolution wasn't really over until Napoleon was gone, but its ideological effect on the rest of Europe was enormous.

some good, others bad. I imagine if you ask a French citizen, they could easily clarify it for you.

The low-IQ clapping circus seals who celebrate it don't understand history.

It's a tough job trying to get people to look at actual facts

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I’m sure they’d be super intrigued.

The Low-IQ flipper clappers know the Disneyfied version of history and those with an IQ above room temperature know about the Vendee Massacres... aka genocide vs a rural population killing 200,000 people...

I get it... it's easier to grasp onto popular tropes than to educate yourself.

Thanks for your post, WarGamer. You succinctly nailed it.

The title takes away the ?inflected - é!

Once I went to a Bastille Day celebration held on several blocks in Manhattan NYC by a famous French Language & cultural school.

Other times on along stretch of Smith St in Brooklyn when I lived not too far away from there they also hold one including with a few blocks set ups of the French ground game - petanque. A long slightly blocked off rectangle with ?sand. People toss a hollow metal ball (boule) as close as possible to a wooden ball.

Near the end of the festival is a French Pastry shop with light sandwiches as well that sets up tables that was started by a French immigrant!
Good times!

We didn't go to the parade because the underground was too crowded so we decided to sit it out. Low and behold the parade came to us, they got lost and came down the street of our hotel, which was the Bastille hotel on Bastille square. We had a front row seat, nobody was there, we could walk up and pet the horses. The military had a map out on the hood of their jeep trying to find where they should be. It was wonderful, we had a great time, but I wouldn't want to count on them to find their way if we needed them.

asshole 'in charge' keeps pushing it--- !!!!