>Fauchett, confronted with the skeletons discovered in the Bastille, exclaims: "The day of revelation is upon us. ... The very bones have risen at the sound of the voice of French freedom; they bear witness against the centuries of oppression and death, and prophesy the regeneration of human nature and of the life of nations." Then he predicts: "We have reached the heart of time. The tyrants are ready to fall." >1789 will mark the beginning of the reign of "holy humanity" and of "Our Lord the human race,". The blood of the King-priest will sanction the new age.
How is this not the most based shit ever?
There were very few prisoners actually in the bastille and almost all of the revolutionaries wanted to keep the monarchy around for the first year or two after the fall of the bastille. Lafayette had it PERFECT with the system afterwards, the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen armies and the legislative assembly and things would have been just fine if the sans culottes and the mountain didn't keep jumping at shadows about austrian plots and chimping out and killing people in paris. >B-but the king really did collude with the austrians
Because Parisian mobs kept threatening to kill him it's a self-fulfilling prophecy and you know it. On multiple occasions some dumb fucking rumor would hit the streets about royalist plots that didn't exist and a bunch of people would get ripped apart by angry mobs it makes perfect sense for Louis to freak out. Louis was a mediocre but harmless king and didn't deserve it FUCK YOU Lafayette is a hero in America, a country that MATTERS.
>>17943385
The Bastille at the time was basically decommissioned and mostly a holding camp for the most retarded and useless of Noble second sons and degenerates.
Cool vibes, but they were basically looking around an oversized drunk tank.
>>17945883
Economy and population sizes had shifted drastically against France in that time period. They were notoriously not having any kids while the Germans were breeding like rabbits.
He also fell for Bismarck's tricks and severely underestimated the Germans' level of preparedness.
