Tea at Trianon: Orwellian Ban of Demonstrations All Over France

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

Monday, December 4, 2023

Orwellian Ban of Demonstrations All Over France

From The European Conservative:

Since the murder of Thomas, a young Frenchman stabbed to death by a gang of assailants of immigrant origin, demonstrations of support have been springing up all over France. The government and the judicial authorities, embarrassed by a case whose ins and outs they refuse to see, are responding with bans on questionable ideological grounds.
The organisation of an expedition a week after the crime to Romans-sur-Isère, the town from which the murderers came, by protesters, provided the media and the political class with an alternative discourse to the murder of Thomas that was very convenient to exploit: the danger was no longer in the violence coming from the suburbs, which was responsible for Thomas’ death, but in the threat coming from the ‘ultra-right’, a new symbolic enemy designated by the authorities. Several of the members of the expedition arrested by the police in Romans-sur-Isère received prison sentences in record time, demonstrating a kind of severity rarely applied in cases of urban violence.

An initial rally planned in Lyon on Monday, November 28th, in tribute to Thomas was banned. Despite the ban, several activists from various identitarian movements gathered in the city centre before being dispersed by the police. As revealed by Valeurs actuelles, eight identitarian activists who were tagging and pasting up messages in tribute to Thomas (“Thomas, 16 years-old, killed by barbarians,” “Thomas killed because white,” “Justice for Thomas”) were arrested for collective degradation and incitement to racial hatred.

A rally in tribute to Thomas was scheduled to take place in Paris on Friday, December 1st, at Place de la Sorbonne, in the historic university district or Latin Quarter. It was banned by the Préfecture de Police, citing the risk of disrupting “immaterial public order:”

“The concept of immaterial public order developed by case law makes it possible to prevent disturbances to public order, by focusing on the preservation of a system of objective values that cement social harmony.” (Read more.)