Tea at Trianon: More To The Story On Actor Robert DeNiro

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, May 29, 2024

More To The Story On Actor Robert DeNiro

From Christine Dolan at The Manhattan:

Robert De Niro has now morphed Hillary Clinton's 2016 "deplorables" characterization of Trump supporters to "gangsters" on behalf of the Biden-Harris 2024 presidential campaign in New York City on Tuesday. It is a far cry from the 2016 Democratic National Committee's convention when Michelle Obama declared: “When they go low, we go high.”

In one of the more bizarre political stunts in recent decades, with plenty of potential blowback, “You, talk’in to me?” actor Robert De Niro once again demeaned himself publicly as he ranted on behalf of the Biden-Harris 2024 presidential campaign outside the New York Supreme Court House during the closing arguments in the Trump document trial, as earlier reported by CDM’s Manhattan Press. (Read more.)