Tea at Trianon: Where is the Outrage?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Where is the Outrage?

American citizens and firefighters are publicly humiliated, according to the Family Research Council. Terry Nelson has some commentary as well. (Graphic.) Share

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: words fail...; August 8, 2007 at 9:44:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: folks need to bombard the Mayor of San Diego; these brave men, fathers and husbands........men who defend life, limb and property were publicly humiliated.....it is an outrage beyond words.

call that wretched City and complain, complain, complain.....it is the ONLY thing they understand; August 9, 2007 at 12:42:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: Here is a iron clad guarantee. This will be settled out of court for a bunch of money, it will be settled quick, and the City of San Diego will push this as far away as it can. The Fire chief will retain her job, and no one will ever hear from the firemen agian because they will have to sign an agreement to remain silent about it. Betcha.

Good thing it wasn't in San Francisco.

How these Saints must be crying in
Heaven.

de Brantigny; August 9, 2007 at 8:47:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: I am aghast. When I compare this to the brave stand taken by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to ban Gay Pride parades in his city, I weep. By the way, all religious leaders support Mayor Luzhkov's principled position (Patriarch Aleksei, Archbishop Tadeusz, Mufti Gainutdin, and Rav Lazar all applaud his move). Why can't this happen in America?

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Vara; August 9, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM EDT