tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post4447504405915894679..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Royal News RoundupMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-8574782561562230152011-07-17T16:07:45.903-05:002011-07-17T16:07:45.903-05:00Ah yes, well, I would have guessed *gah-toe shwoo-...Ah yes, well, I would have guessed *gah-toe shwoo-yay*. Perhaps the only thing I have in common with Napoleon and George Washington -bad speller!MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-87804501078418347422011-07-17T14:45:05.387-05:002011-07-17T14:45:05.387-05:00Yes, *le quatorze juillet* was originally institut...Yes, *le quatorze juillet* was originally instituted to celebrate the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under Louis XVI. Accordingly, King Albert I of the Belgians had his first official state visit to France coincide with the celebration of the 14th of July, and when people remarked on the audacity of the gesture, he reminded them that the French Revolution had originally gone in the direction of constitutional monarchy, something he himself also represented.Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-66898030026795788532011-07-16T17:28:03.203-05:002011-07-16T17:28:03.203-05:00I call it the 14th of July in French -but I havn&#...I call it the 14th of July in French -but I havn't the slightest idea how to spell that. I can say it, but couldn't spell it to save my life. And, of course, unless I said "Bastille Day" no one would know what I was talking about. I also don't doubt no one knows about the founding of the constitutional monarchy. In fact, I would wager most don't know France was ever a constitutional monarchy. All they know is "big, bad" *absolute monarchy* and then the Revolution and all that liberty humbug.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-30224947968328058542011-07-16T14:29:09.340-05:002011-07-16T14:29:09.340-05:00Funnily enough, we don't actually call it &quo...Funnily enough, we don't actually call it "Bastille Day". That's something the Anglophone world seems intent on calling it. We just call it the "14th of July" or the "National Holiday". And I think it originally was to celebrate the establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy of France on the 14th July, 1790. So it is technically a royalist holiday, even if no-one knows it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com