French Revolution: Anyone else fascinated by it

[stuka1939]

I am now 31 and have always liked the French Revolution since I was an adolescent. I think it was the guillotine and the gore that got me drawn into it.

You also had alot of different personalities in Robespierre, Danton, Saint-Just, Marat, Carrier and Hebert.


Great Stuff.

 

[HandyAndy]

I think the major battles in WW2 are fascinating.

D-Day
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Iwo Jima
Bulge

 

[stuka1939]

I think the major battles in WW2 are fascinating.

D-Day
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Iwo Jima
Bulge

That's nice, but I was talking about the French Revolution.

 

[HandyAndy]

That's nice, but I was talking about the French Revolution.

That's nice, but I'm talking about World War 2.

 

[stuka1939]

That's nice, but I'm talking about World War 2.

You're a thread hijacker. Respect your elders.

 

[HandyAndy]

Stop making stupid threads then I wont hijack them

 

[WesCottII]

No.

 

[bbestar]

I am now 31 and have always liked the French Revolution since I was an adolescent. I think it was the guillotine and the gore that got me drawn into it.

You also had alot of different personalities in Robespierre, Danton, Saint-Just, Marat, Carrier and Hebert.


Great Stuff.

You know I used to fascinated about WWII, like how the battles were fought and how it felt to be in a soldiers situation. But after watching a few documentaries about banks and financing, there is nothing to be fascinated about an event that was manufactured to kill people in order to make money for certain people and banks.

WWI and WWII was not a natural occurrence of history. Certain people and groups wanted it to happen, made an effort to make it happen, and sadly it did.

With an event like WWII that was started and created by a few individuals and groups, The French Revolution was created to by a few people who wanted the government out, and not because of the people, not democracy but the elite wanted.

Today instead of banks and certain individuals causing disarray, governments are now playing the role. Even right now governments are trying to create revolutions in South America, and in the Middle East.

The history that you learned from school is their version of reality they want you to believe. And today they continue to reinforce their reality by Television, by shows and movies. Only if me and you just stopped believing in their lies, this world might change for the good, and history repeating itself would be a thing of the past.

 

[TheSplat]

I'm also fascinated by the French Revolution. Times must have been horrible for the people to overthrow the government. And Marie Antionnette's comment about the citizens not being able to afford bread...what a b*tch.

The sad thing is that as great of an event that was for the history of the world, if times in the US came to that, we could never do it. Military technology is just too damn strong to fend off civilians w/ pistols. Thats kind of an intriguing thought.

 

[Papermoon]

And Marie Antionnette's comment about the citizens not being able to afford bread...what a b*tch.

That is a myth, no contemporary source says anything about it. On the other hand, Marie Antoinette often invited relatively poor children to play with her first-born daughter. That's a historical fact.

It is a very interesting chapter of history, especially because it was not all as black and white as the movies tell us.

 

[stuka1939]

That is a myth, no contemporary source says anything about it. On the other hand, Marie Antoinette often invited relatively poor children to play with her first-born daughter. That's a historical fact.

It is a very interesting chapter of history, especially because it was not all as black and white as the movies tell us.

Yes, I have also heard that was a myth. I did not know about her having the poor children play with her daughter though.

For what I know though, the French people despised her because she was extravagant and a foreigner.

If you like French Revolution History, they have the actual blade that cut off the Queen's Head. There are also four wax figure decapitated heads of Robespierre, Carrier, Louis XVI and Jacques Rene Hebert. These were done My Madam Taussand.

 

[Papermoon]

Madame Tussaud has everything! I was there only once but I remember the heads of the queen and king stuck on poles. Weird thing, decaptivated wax heads...but interesting.

I think the revolution had to come one way or another, and the frivolous overspending in Versailles certainly didn't help. Lots of thing could have been
prevented, the whole affair of the diamond necklace is just one example. The entire court was corrupted and it was impossible to actually govern the country.

It did bring good to the world, in the end. But the price for liberty, equality, fraternity was paid in blood. I am not talking about the Royal Family only, but about the 1000s of people who died in the Reign of Terror.

 

[leftForDeadPhoenix]

Those where the good old days. We need something like that to happen here in the USA.

 

[leftForDeadPhoenix]

Military technology is just too damn strong to fend off civilians w/ pistols. Thats kind of an intriguing thought.

Shyt, most of the military is made up of pissed off rednecks. I'm sure if the people had an uprising most of our military would join right in.:box: