Tea at Trianon: A Massacre of the Innocents in 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

Sunday, January 4, 2026

A Massacre of the Innocents in France

From The American Thinker:

Writer Baxter Dmitry, reporting for The People’s Voice, reveals the Macron government–sponsored parade included a “Minotaur float, complete with a sacrificial labyrinth stage where performers in goat masks symbolically offered a child mannequin to the bull-headed god, [which] was a direct nod to Ba’al and Moloch worship, the very deities the ancient Israelites were warned never to tolerate.”  The theater company behind these giant monsters has been featuring them in events, mainly in Toulouse, for the last few years.

A formerly Christian nation that once anathematized the massacre of innocents by King Herod of Judea now celebrates and parades deities devoted to child sacrifice.  The spirit of Herod, who ordered the murders of infants in hope of exterminating the rival king Jesus, lives on.

The celebration of the spirit of Herod was manifested in the French Revolution, during which political cataclysm the God once thought of as the Redeemer of human souls and minds was replaced by a goddess of Reason.  She was seated in Notre Dame cathedral as a replacement for Mary, Mother of Christ. (Read more.)