Happy Bastille Day

[Jack Rabbit]

30. You're probably right.

The very idea of rule by the people continued to be anti-establishment after Waterloo. To listen to the crooks who ran the Congress of Vienna, you would think that Napoleon was a full blooded democrat. I wouldn't trust a man who talked a good game about republicanism but had the nerve to crown himself emperor enough to give hime #20 to tie him over until payday, but I would never give the time of day to Metternich, Castlereagh, Tsar Alexander or Tallyrand, the ring leaders of the Congress. Metternich's most notable twentieth century admirer was Dr. Kissinger. Let that speak for itself. What they believed in was the perpetuation of the landed aristocracy. If the French Revolution demonstrated anything it was that the landed aristocracy had outlived its usefulness to the common people (assuming that it ever had any).