Sunday, July 14, 2013

Happy Bastille Day Grandmere!










HAPPY Bastille Day!  It is a happy day even in a world where Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! are despised by the conventional wisdom and seem as far away as ever.
People may long for autocrats or oligarchies out of a desire for comfort and safety, but the experience of the last century demonstrates that autocrats and oligarchs couldn't care less about either.


EXTRA:

It's a Sunday Bastille Day this year.  So how about a big French organ spectacular:







Louis Vierne's organ in Notre Dame, Paris





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3 comments:

  1. June ButlerJuly 14, 2013 at 5:26 PM

    Thanks, Doug. We had to learn the lyrics of La Marseillaise in my high school French, though I think not all the verses. That would have been too hard. :-)

    When we were abandoned by all levels of government after Katrina and the federal flood, we cried out, "France, please buy us back!"

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  2. June ButlerJuly 14, 2013 at 5:28 PM

    "high school French class"

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  3. MarkBrunsonJuly 16, 2013 at 12:02 AM

    Happy Bastille Day to us all - soon, hopefully.

    BTW, I'm always in favor of big, French organs.

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