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Subject: 14 July 1789
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:31:51 -0400
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The storming of the Bastille on July 14 and its immediate consequences
showed what the French Revolution was all about, namely,
the consequence of a moral collapse that had been prepared by the
left-wing, radical chic, literati of its day...
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Bastille.shtml
http://www.history.sfasu.edu/jackson/232/Test2/french_revolution.htm
What country before ever existed a century & a half without a rebellion?
& what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not
warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to
facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century
or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. --- Thomas Jefferson
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