Old Weird Ward
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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Today is the day that the revolution in France started.
Today we celebrate the liberation of seven aristocrats: four forgers, two madmen, and a young aristocrat who had challenged the best swordsman in France to a duel and whose father got the king to lock him up to prevent his being killed. The forgers vanished. The madmen were sent to the common madhouse. The final young mad became "Citizen Liberte" under which name he lost his head in The Terror because apparently his conversion from aristocracy was incomplete. The garrison of the fortress prison was composed of retired and disabled soldiers, all of whom had been appointed because of meritorious service to the nation. They were slaughtered to a man.
Liberty. Equality. Fraternity.
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After that, of course, came The Terror, and then Napoleon.
He ultimately failed.
Vive La France, right?
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