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Here is a good comparison of the two revolutions, the American and the French. One established a form of government new to the world and the other resulted in dictatorship for nearly 80 years and then became a form of "democracy". Lots of good things in comparison in the link.
Here are some of the great comparisons of the two revolutions.
President after president of the new American republic died peacefully at home for 75 years, right up until Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the French Revolution all died violently, guillotine by guillotine.
The fourth of July also marks the death of two of our greatest founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same day, exactly fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
We made it for nearly another 200 years, before the Democrats decided to jettison freedom and make us French.
The French helped America out during the Revolution.
The French Revolution was inspired by America's revolution although the French won't admit that.
The French Revolution was cool except the Revolutionaries kept on fighting with each other until Napoleon changed the focus to fighting the rest of Europe instead of each other.
Why am I defending France; I don't know.
I like France.
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Originally Posted by roysoldboy
Here is a good comparison of the two revolutions, the American and the French. One established a form of government new to the world and the other resulted in dictatorship for nearly 80 years and then became a form of "democracy". Lots of good things in comparison in the link.
Here are some of the great comparisons of the two revolutions.
President after president of the new American republic died peacefully at home for 75 years, right up until Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the French Revolution all died violently, guillotine by guillotine.
The fourth of July also marks the death of two of our greatest founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same day, exactly fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
We made it for nearly another 200 years, before the Democrats decided to jettison freedom and make us French.
I want to like Ann Coulter, but this column has felt like alot of her stuff where she just throws crap on the wall to see what will stick and upset liberals and the French. As much as the negative aspects of the French Revolution can be brought up eg Godless government without restraint vis-a-vis the American revolution which was quite restrained in comparison because of the faith of the men leading it, the French also gave us great Enlightenment figures like Baron de Montesquieu and Alexis de Tocqueville. The former had a really profound influence on the men who created the US Constitution. The latter of whom wrote an assessment of American identity and character which to this day still is superior than anything else I've read attempting to explain why Americans are whom they are and why they do the things they do.
So yeah, the French are easy to make fun of, but they've also given us Americans alot of ideas and other things without which we'd be worse off on several levels.
We're not French and we're not Independent anymore, so I'm not quite sure what people are celebrating. We are global citizens now.
The fireworks are pretty.
if the french didn't help, we could easily have been a commonwealth country right now. a canada-south or one big country with canada.
french bashing is so philistine.
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