Tea at Trianon: Ça Ira

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

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Ça Ira

Death of Louis XVI

Ça Ira or "It Will Be Fine," was the song which defined the French Revolution even more than the Marseillaise. It had already been a popular tune, which Marie-Antoinette herself played on the clavichord at Petit Trianon. But the words were changed to fit the new politics and some versions specifically mocked the Queen while rejoicing in the murder of the upper classes and the clergy. For instance,

We shall have no more nobles nor priests
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
Equality will reign everywhere
The Austrian slave shall follow him
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
And their infernal clique
Shall go to hell
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
aristocrats to the lamp-post
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
the aristocrats, we'll hang them!

That is why having Ça Ira sang by a decapitated Marie-Antoinette at the Paris Olympics last month is seen by so many as obscene.

Here is one of the best articles on the French Revolution ever. From The Washington Stand:

There is much talk today, across the Western world but especially in America, of communism, socialism, Marxism and Leninism, and the Total State. Grand allusions are made to the Soviet regime, to third-world dictatorships, to 20th century coups, and to Nazi propaganda. But what is tragically and all-too-often overlooked is not the Bolshevik Revolution, nor Hitler’s ascension to the chancellorship of Germany, nor the numerous communist revolutions and counter-revolutions which populated the latter half of the 1900s, but an older revolution, which served as the root of them all: the French Revolution.
The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris makes manifest not only the dread influence that the French Revolution exercises over the world still, but also makes clear that the demonic forces within leftism recognize their own parentage and have not forgotten the Luciferian goals of the French Revolution. Drag queens performing a diabolical parody of the Last Supper may seem like an innovation of degeneracy, common enough across the globe: the promotion of the LGBT agenda coupled with irreverence toward the Divine. But the inclusion of a nude, blue-painted Dionysus may have confused some and certainly provided some cover for the Paris Olympics organizers to claim that they were not mocking Christ — how could they be if a pagan god were the centerpiece?
But the appearance of Dionysus, coupled with a garish mockery of the decapitated Queen Marie Antoinette, made it evident that the radical, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT themes adored by leftists everywhere and celebrated profusely (and profanely) in Paris last week trace their lineage to the too-often-overlooked French Revolution. The forces of Hell declared on Friday, in Paris, that the French Revolution is far from over. In order for its evils to be resisted and, eventually, undone, it must first be understood. (Read more.)

From The Catholic Register:

Ancient Rome’s pagan Emperor Nero, who famously burned his city to blame it on Christians would undoubtedly have been very proud of the bizarre spectacle that today’s pagan leaders conjured up for the whole world to see. Thus, the French Olympic Committee and its seemingly strongly atheistic French government led by French President, Emmanuel Macron celebrated in grand fashion the union of athleticism and sadistic narcissism. This is not so surprising when one considers that several months ago French parliamentarians, by a vote of 780 to 72, made France the world’s first country to enshrine abortion into its national constitution.

Among the most glaring examples of their shocking displays of perversion during the opening ceremony were:

a collection of drag queens parodying Christ’s Last Supper
a celebration of the anti-Catholic French Revolution with a gruesome skit displaying at least 37 decapitated models depicting Marie Antoinette standing in the windows of a huge castle, holding her bloodied and yet talking head in front of her body
dancing cross dressed males with beards
scenes of encouragement of gay orgies with threesomes;
godlike adoration of huge statues emerging from the banks of the Seine depicting women who pushed for the killing of unborn children on French society
a mocking display of Rome’s horrible custom of crucifying criminals, especially Christians in later times, by having several people dangling on with their arms outstretched, on long flexible poles above a bridge.

The culmination of this sadistic and satanic mocking of Christianity were the two huge golden bull idols displayed on the main Olympic stage at the end of the ceremony – akin to the golden calf idol made by the rebelling Israelites when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments from God. (Read more.)