How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles

Re:How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tri... by Applejinx on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:33AM (#17540433)

I find I just can't have any sympathy for Versailles.

La Marseillaise is 'the national identity' more than Versailles.

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Re:How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tri... by airstrike on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:49AM (#17540864)

Why can’t you like both? Surely you can appreciate that the French monarchy had a non-zero impact in the French culture and identity that remains to this day

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Re:How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tri... by sp332 on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:16AM (#17541942)

Yes, in that they cut/chiseled the heads off all representations of monarchy in Versailles. It seems mainly to serve as a negative example.

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Re:How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tri... by realusername on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:53AM (#17540894)

And so what? The building is a wonderful piece of history worth to preserve.

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Re:How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tri... by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:41AM (#17549646)

Sure, let's cut some throats and see some blood flowing. /s

I am a French republican at heart, proud of my country, and see our history as a complicated layer of events which all brought something in. As much Versailles as the Revolution, as the years of Christianity and the sweet laicity we have today.

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