Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houel (1735-1813)
Perhaps not unreasonably, I find myself much in The Storming of the Bastille, which is today.
I have a sense that we are moving towards uncharted ground, both as a nation and as a world.
I do not say this happily, by any stretch of the imagination. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" said John F. Kennedy. But I fear that the combination of rhetoric and animosity shared (at this point) by all sides leads to nothing but sadness.
"Is it a revolt?" asked Louis XVI the morning after the Storming of the Bastille to Duc de la Rouchefocauld, to which he replied "No sire, it's not a revolt, it's a revolution."
I do not say this happily, by any stretch of the imagination. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" said John F. Kennedy. But I fear that the combination of rhetoric and animosity shared (at this point) by all sides leads to nothing but sadness.
"Is it a revolt?" asked Louis XVI the morning after the Storming of the Bastille to Duc de la Rouchefocauld, to which he replied "No sire, it's not a revolt, it's a revolution."
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