Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe¹

As rain gently fell during today’s commemoration of “the war to end all wars” a hundred years ago ─ Macron led heads of state down the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe, cursing the spirit of “nationalism,” under his breath, with each and every step!

"Old demons [of nationalism] are reawakening, ready to sow chaos and death," Macron said, condemning “ideology” and “religion”! "History sometimes threatens to repeat its tragic patterns, and undermine the legacy of peace we thought we had sealed with the blood of our ancestors."

Yet, the Arc de Triomphe honors Macron’s “Ultra Nationalist Ancestors” ─ inspired by radical ideas ─ they Stormed of the Bastille, and during the subsequent Reign of Terror guillotined 16,594 and as many as 40,000 summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial.

Unlike the Third Reich, the French Revolution "people's wars" conscripted “every” citizen as a subordinate but integral part of her destiny to enslave the world! The Napoleonic wars, to follow, were “total wars” with the home front industrial war machine aiding and supplying the military.

The legacy of those ancestors inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe was the “violence and chaos” that culminated in Napoleon’s coup d'état and dictatorship, and subsequent Napoleonic Wars that infused “fascist nationalism” into a comparatively innocent world ─ the precursor of the World Wars to follow!



 ¹By Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada - Arc de Triomphe, VE Day, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74291512

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