Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][DISCUSSION] Another reason not to be like France

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Scott Hussey wrote:
>
> > Interesting that the French signed their own death certificate. 
> > Without America's democratic experiment (and the huge debt racked up 
> > by France in the Revolutionary War), it is doubtful the French 
> > Revolution would have happened with quite the same fervor.
>
> Did the French royals do this because they were more concerned about 
> controlling the British than with dealing with an uprising of their own 
> people?

I don't know.  But history books I read as a kid suggest that the 
British and French were on very agreeable terms at home - it was just in 
their foreign policies that they were at loggerheads.  Maybe it was a 
case of breakdown of communication in the government between home 
affairs and foreign affairs.

I would think that the French royalty were utterly dismissive and 
arrogant in any dangers they may have perceived from their own people.

Stephen

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