Letter to the Editor – Avery Chenoweth, Sr.

Dear Editor,

MY, OH MY! Here we go again:

Our esteemed legal beagle, columnist, and amateur historian has confused the French “Louis” kings again.

No. Louis XIV (Roman numerals for 14th) the Great “Roi du Soleil” (Sun King) “L’État c’est moi” (I am the State), who reigned from A.D. 1643–1715, was not guillotined (head chopped off); he died of old age in bed!

It was Louis XVI (Roman for 16th), who reigned from 1774 until 1793, when at the outset of the 1789 French Revolution. his head, indeed, was chopped off—and hiswife, Marie Antoinette’s nine months later, after she euphemistically said about the starving peasants who were revolting, “Let them eat cake.” That French Revolution, starting July 14th, 1789, by peasants storming the city fortress, “The Bastille”—and freeing four inmates—backfired, and their rallying cry, “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” turned quickly into a Reign of Terror by radicals until a minor army officer, Napoleon Bonaparte, usurped (as did Hitler later) power and proclaimed himself Emperor.

Thus, the simultaneous French Revolution cannot be compared to the American one, nor George Washington by any means to Napoleon.

The flawed French revolution was stupidly repeated partly by Hitler (especially his ill-fated invasion of Russia) and now today’s Democrat “Jacobinist-Marxist, left radicals” fomenting what amounts almost to a similar “Reign of Terror” in an internal, anti-U.S. quasi-revolutoion.

Better to stick to your law, Counselor, and leave history to the better educated.

Avery Chenoweth, Sr.

Perry

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