© UnknownBastille Day 1789
Although Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas, Zelensky, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will have a gay old-time watching the studs of the French Foreign Legion swagger their way down the Champs-Élysées this July 14th, it does raise the question as to why France and the world bothers with this annual extravagance, which commemorates the July 14th 1789 jailbreak of seven upper class forgers by an enraged mob, who then went on to "liberate" the Marquis de Sade, who was one of hell's most depraved devils ever to take human form.
Although de Sade, like Diderot, Rousseau and Voltaire deserves his own share of the blame for the carnage the storming of the Bastille presaged, the French kings and their economic advisors, who plunged France into the chaos of its Revolutionary era, deserve much more because, as we'll show with the current scams of Trump and von der Leyen, they remain much more relevant than Voltaire who, despite all his undoubted eloquence, never said or wrote anything of note, or of Rousseau, whom Lion Feuchtwanger brilliantly lampoons in his classic work on the French Revolutionary era.
Comment: Some will see the light and find the way. Some never do. To each it is reality.