Vive la France! ‘
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos batallions..’
Oh, I better get on with it.
Yeah ‘Blucher Street’ just down the road (from where I grew up) ‘Bismarck Street’ we used to play on. ‘The King of Prussia’ pub. That’s right-we were on the side of Germany in history. ‘Our Germanic cousins’ it was. The jokes about the Royal Family being German. Yes, WHY was there an Hanoverian Succession? Why would we hand over over the Court to Hanover? What was that about? Starting to read a bit of history now when the church across the road (from my childhood home) was pulled down. But they put an information board up it was a ‘Waterloo church’; churches built to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon. Oh, I see.
Blucher was the General in charge of the German forces allied with Great Britain at Waterloo I found out. Starting to get it. Napoleon must be defeated at all costs. Why?
You know cunters Napoleon was a fucking great bloke. A giant of a man, ‘the little corporal’. The way he’s portrayed in English history its though he’s some kind of precursor to Hitler. All out for European domination- conquering for conquering sake. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Napoleon was about, first and foremost, spreading the ideas of the French Revolution. Making them concrete. What were those ideas? That ordinary men could run the country. Simply that. That common men could RULE. Not the Aristocracy. That the French people or any other people didn’t just make up the state but MADE THE STATE. Now that was (and is) truly Revolutionary. How did he implement it? The Napoleonic Code. Still in operation in many parts of Europe. Too long to go into.
So he was about spreading the ideas of real democracy, justice, civic duty. The people became ‘Citizens ‘ with rights..
Germany. I’m afraid the only word I can come up with, that sums them up, the word; Barbarian. Christianized late it never really did ‘take’. The more Northern you go the more of a Barbarian you are. Maybe. Anyway, we took the the side of Germany. Against France. The Barbarian against the Citizen. And fought for and rescued and defended Germany for three centuries. For fucking Prussia essentially. The MOST barbaric of the Germanic tribes. Chesterton said Frederick the Great had the ‘soul of an ape’. Like a Disney world-Hard to explain but dreamy, anarchic, aristocratic, MILITARISTIC. It’s gone into legend how brutal the Prussian soldier was.
Finally, finally England awoke and saw who had been the real enemy all along. The First World War.
So the French have ‘good democratic blood’ and a fighting spirit. What has put all this back in my mind is contemporary movement. The Yellow Vests. You wouldn’t know it is still going on (and has been going all over France for three months). It flared up again in Paris last weekend. When I read cunters on here decrying the French for their weakness and ‘cheese eating’….I think at least they are doing something. We take to the sofa while the French take to the streets. We ought to imitate more the French spirit. It is pleasing to me that the man who was arrested for ‘harassing’ Anna Soubry was wearing a yellow vest at his hearing.
I wish there was another Revolution.
‘Marchon, marchon!
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve now silons!’
Nominated by Miles Plastic





