Why I love Paris

[bluescouse]

1789 French Revolution, 1830, 1848, 1871, the Paris commune (my favourite), 1944, when Paris liberated itself, and allied forces actually diverted their assault and entered Paris, instead of their original target, to avoid another Paris commune.
And of course 1968, When of course De Gaule, for a time, actually ran off to one of their colonies, and declaired France was lost.
Message Do Not Piss Off Parisians!

[hajduk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13, 2007 01:50 am
1789 French Revolution, 1830, 1848, 1871, the Paris commune (my favourite), 1944, when Paris liberated itself, and allied forces actually diverted their assault and entered Paris, instead of their original target, to avoid another Paris commune.
And of course 1968, When of course De Gaule, for a time, actually ran off to one of their colonies, and declaired France was lost.
Message Do Not Piss Off Parisians!
The French revolution never happend.What it happend is just the sense that something happend.I read the letters of one guy who was on a holliday in that time and he wrote that there is no been any kind of crowd or demonstration which will reply that revolution is going on.After Bastilla fall iside they find just two prisiners and non of them was not the political prisonner so...

[gilhyle]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 02:57 pm
The French revolution never happend.What it happend is just the sense that something happend.
Isnt postmodernism just great ? :rolleyes:

[RevolverNo9]

(hajduk @ July 16, 2007 02:57 pm)
The French revolution never happend.What it happend is just the sense that something happend.


Isnt postmodernism just great ?

Hah! You're telling me...

There is something about Paris... I was there for quite some time at the beginning of the year and seeing the city on the night that Sarkozy won gave me some faith in the capabiltiy for popular action still there, as incoherent as it was. I still cannot imagine anywhere else currently in the West where a presidential victory of the sort just witnessed could cause control to be wrested by revolt for several hours.

But one must also not forget the reaction that is so strong in Paris. Ultimately Paris - and the left included - is no longer a truly dynamic place. It is not an avant-garde. The immense weight of tradition that the French Left bears will propel it along for many years to come... but with what success?

[Dimentio]

I did not like Paris when I was there. Boring, stressed city.

I prefer calm places, like Strasbourg.

[gilhyle]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 05:58 pm
I did not like Paris when I was there. Boring, stressed city.

I prefer calm places, like Strasbourg.
Barcelona is a bit like Paris used to be......I wonder what its future holds ?

[hajduk]

Things are not just happend,things are made to happend
KENNEDY

[hajduk]

They live,we sleep

movie "They live"

[gilhyle]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19, 2007 10:45 am
Things are not just happend,things are made to happend
KENNEDY
Cant argue with that:

Les choses n'arrivent pas comme ca, on les fait arriver, as a parisian rioter might say.

[bluescouse]

I suppose I should have titled this thread; Why I love parisians. I admit that Paris isn't the best holiday destination, but their history of revolt is second to none.
The wide boulivards, for example, were designed to move in soldiers quickly to quell uprisings, and to make the building of barricades difficult.
This is a city where it pays, to avoid pissing of the population.

[CornetJoyce]

“ I left still holding the memory of everything I had read and dreamt of in my youth about its glorious Revolution and the heroic and grand history of France.”
-Castro, after his visit to Paris