Napoleon III

We need to leave him out of at least the public picture.

Well, Cardinal Pia, who was very much admired by Pope Leo XIII, confronted Emperor Napoleon III.

Napoleon III had claimed that it wasn't time for Christ to reign.

And his eminence said this.

He said, the time has not come for Jesus Christ to reign.

Here's the lie.

So they say that, okay, the Houseman's Renovation of Paris, they say that basically it was a vast public works program commissioned by Napoleon III.

Between 1853 and 1870, it says it included the demolition of medieval neighborhoods that were deemed overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at that time.

The building of wide avenues, new parks and squares, the annexation of the suburbs surrounding Paris, the construction of new sewers, fountains and aqueducts.

It's that kind of really, really haute couture stuff, or it's the revolution, right? We're storming the Bastille.

And so in French history, France has a very troubled political history after the revolution because, you know, there's this Napoleon guy, but he fails, right? There's been a

lot of revolutions, and apparently there's another one happening right now.

There are troubles.

Then there's another republic.

Then the monarchs come back, right? The Bonapartes actually show back up again.

But the next Napoleon, Napoleon III, he loses again, you know, the war against Germany and he goes away.

So then they have another republic, but it doesn't work out so hot.

By the 19th century, its wines had developed a well-established commercial hierarchy.

In 1855, Napoleon III wanted France's finest wines presented at the Paris Universal Exposition.

Bordeaux wine brokers were asked to classify the region's leading estates.

And how did they do it? Largely by considering reputation and the prices the wines commanded in the market.

They've done some brilliant work recently.

Mediapart wrote, Now the right to demonstrate in France increasingly resembles what the right to strike was under Napoleon III, a formal right granted by the government, but one that has no practical reality because the conditions for its implementation are rendered impossible.

The entire conception of democracy held by Macronism is now brutally exposed, an empty shell serving the government, not a system of debate and protest.

Excellently put.

Englishmen themselves live in a united empire.

But if the Kingdom of Scotland should secede, should seize all the national property, forts, arsenals, and public treasure on its soil, organize an army, send forth foreign ministers to Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of Austria, and other powers, issue invitations to all the pirates of the world to prey upon English commerce, screening their piracy from punishment by the banner of Scotland, and should announce its intention of planting that flag upon buckingham palace it is probable that a blow or two would be struck to defend the national honor and the national existence without fear that the civil war would be denounced as wicked and fratricidal yet it would be difficult to show that the state of florida for example a spanish province purchased for national purposes some forty years ago by the united states government for several millions and fortified and furnished with navy yards for national uses at a national expense of many more millions and numbering at this moment a population of only eighty thousand white men should be more entitled to resume its original sovereignty than the ancient kingdom of william the lion and robert bruce the terms of the treaty between england and scotland were perpetual and so is the constitution of the united states the united empire may be destroyed by revolution and war and so may the united states but a peaceful and legal dismemberment without the consent of a majority of the whole people is an impossibility but it is sometimes said that the American Republic originated in secession from the mother country.

and that it is unreasonable of the union to resist the seceding movement on the part of the new confederacy but it so happens that the one case suggests the other only by the association of contrast the thirteen colonies did not intend to secede from the british empire they were forced into secession by a course of policy on the part of the mother country such as no English administration at the present day can be imagined capable of adopting.

Those Englishmen in America were loyal to the crown, but they exercised the right which cis-Atlantic or trans-Atlantic Englishmen have always exercised of resistance to arbitrary government.