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Was France the Fatherland of Genocide? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / RETHINKING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| Author: Laurent Ladouce |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,252 Words, 13,997 Characters |
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When Michel Baroin, the president of several insurance companies and a Freemason, was asked a few months ago to preside over the organization of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, many Frenchmen rejoiced: It was wise, so it was thought, to choose a man known for his moderation, his ecumenical ideas, his lifetime dedication to promoting dialogue and mutual understanding among ideological and political opponents. Baroin himself declared that he would make the bicentenary an occasion for national reconciliation.
After all, the spirit of the times seemed to favor this noble idea of a national reconciliation. In 1987, two years before the anniversary of its famous Revolution, France is celebrating the millennium of the crowning of Hugh Capet, the first "French" king and founder of ...
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...communal center. For this reason, they have sometimes been compared with the Irish and the Polish. Like the Poles under the Russians and the Irish under the English, the Vendeans paid dearly for their religious-cultural loyalties. Secher's work, which has thrown into even greater contention the already threatened bicentenary celebration of the French Revolution, shows how high that price was.
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