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bucolic_frolic

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3. So much study of France

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 08:01 AM

May 2017

focuses on the French Revolution

yet the great traditions of egalite, liberte and the whole continental
Enlightenment are a far larger story

It's good they have passed judgment on the world's current crises

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