fwiw the originator of the "I'm against harsh punishments in principle BUT" argument was one Maximillien Robespierre
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Replying to @lionel_trolling
The speciality you've developed in comparing the day's events to French history is a good one. It's an underserved market.
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its a little bit of an obsession but hopefully one that serves the public
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The key to making it as a writer is monetizing your obsessions.
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More seriously, it's surprising that French history isn't brought up more in discussions of USA since there are many points of commonalities in two republics created in the age democratic revolutions.
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written during a period when france was not a republic too
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You really see that in France Parkman -- for him France was , as the kids say, "the other" -- that alternative model (admirable for its glory but ultimately toxic) that had to be rejected for America to be America.
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Yes, as a Canadian, New England Francophobia is very interesting to me. You see it in Chicago sociology as well, with Quebec as the quintessential peasant society. But there are interesting counter-currents (Edmund Wilson admired both France & Quebec).
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