To all DUers (and especially those in France), Happy Bastille Day

[Jack Rabbit]

Vive la France!!
Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!
Down tyranny on all continents!!



Please click here and play La Marseillaise. Play it!!

Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugene Delacroix
from the website of Asutrailian National University

[classof56]

1. It also happens to be my 37th wedding anniversary

An easy one to remember--the day they stormed the Bastille. C'est la guerre, c'est la amour. Or somethin' like that!

Happy Bastille Day, indeed!

[MissMillie]

9. Happy anniversary

and many more.....

[classof56]

11. Thank you, MissMillie!

Really appreciate that. Very nice of you! I love DUers! Want to be one of those 1000-posters, as you are. Thanks again!

[welshTerrier2]

2. In honor of Bastille Day, a modest proposal

let's restore the right to vote to all felons ... there is no justification for stripping any citizen, even evil citizens, from their right to participate in the democratic process ...

punishment should fit the crime ... but stripping away the right to vote is just plain wrong ...

[SoDesuKa]

3. French Role in Deposing Aristide

Freedom-wise, the French have done nothing to brag about lately. July 14th may be their day of Independence, but the French government participated in the overthrow of the duly-elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.


Photo by Amy Goodman

http://www.nathanielturner.com/washingtonandparisoverthrowaristide.htm

See also http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1838&category_id=22

[Laughing Mirror]

8. Yes, but they don't like to celebrate that sad fact

Bonne Fête!

[Jack Rabbit]

4. The Bastille was the Berlin Wall of its time

The Bastille was used as a political prison for alleged enemies of the King. A hated symbol of tyranny, it was destroyed by the citizens of Paris on July 14, 1789.



Engraving from the website of the College of William and Mary

[sushi]

5. Yes, congratulations to France!

O'Reilly may have distributed 30,000 "Boycott France" stickers, but I love so many things French. I love France.

[jakefrep]

6. How do you say...

"go Cheney yourself, Bill O' Reilly" in French? Happy Bastille Day, everyone!

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Bump

:bounce:

Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!

[HuckleB]

10. The V's have it on B day.

Virenque. Voeckler. Victory.

Joy and peace to the French on this great day.