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Re:Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette? by fclaerho on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:34AM (#28478150)
There are remembrance ceremonies periodically. The last one occurred this year, with a speech from the president. The problem is that, as everywhere else, the extreme-left is generating controversies and trying to re-interpret History with today standards and pressuring everyone to not celebrate people like him.
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Re:Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette? by eru on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:53AM (#28478510)
It's not just the extreme left that doesn't like Napoleon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM3ID4m38U

> relevant part starts at about 16 minutes, all lindy really does is point out how absolutely horrible Napoleon actually was.

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Re:Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette? by dxdm on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:48PM (#28484921)
That's a video by a British YouTuber, who has entertaining videos with quite often interesting perspectives, but who I think is quite biased in favor of a rosy British perspective.

I don't think he's a good example for attitudes of _French_ people towards their own history, which us what this thread is about.

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Re:Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette? by Bayart on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:20AM (#28478660)
Lindybeige is extremely dishonest, if not deluded. He's probably the worst history-adjacent content-creator I'm aware of that isn't outright known as an alt-right pundit.
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