"Our Lord's Eldest Daughter":
I am writing this in response to "RCESQ" who dismissed the importance of King Louis XVI:
In 1773, finally surrendering to an unjust 20 year campaign of intrigues and calumny, Pope Clement ordered the Order of the Society of Jesus, formerly the bulwurk of the Church (its official right-hand and its most highly regarded) the arm of missionary might and yeald, severed! The driving force behind this were the writers and thinkers of the new "French Enlightenment" movement, agnostics and athiests. Voltaire wrote:
...Things were made worse when Louis XVI answered the request of Benjamin Franklin, America's ambassador to France, to help intervene in the American War for Independence. France gave America monies, troops, and a young Marquis deLafayette. The cost of maintaining fleets and armies in the Western Hemisphere for more than three years bankrupted the French government. Baron deMontesquieu[1689-1755] is famous for his theory of the separation of powers, in order to prevent the absolute supremacy of the majority (expressed as it normally would be through the people's representatives inthe legislature.
deMontesquieu despised despotic government in all forms, whether of the few, or of the masses. Montesquieu's principles were incorporated into the first of the French Governments under Louis XVI (set-up during this prephase to the French Revolution)...finding its way (with very few changes) eventually into the American Constitution of the United States. Stirring passions up in Strasbourg, Jean-Frederick Oberlin wrote: "Patrioticsm, Revolution and Liberation".
In 1777, the general director of France, Necker, undertook to restore public credit in France by ignaugerating a taxation policy which placed the burdens upon the poor and the rich alike. He likewise instituted various internal reforms, improved the administration of justice and sought the abolition of surfdom. These reforms were heartedly supported by King Louis XVI.
Louis was a man of fine physique and skilled in both the manual arts and sciences. Louis grew up with a sincere regard for the loftier elements which enoble man.
Even though the people of France were in strong sympathy with the American Independence movement (giving also moral support as well as financial support) discontent grew in France where the economy grew weaker and weaker.
In 1787, Louis XVI summoned an assembly of Nobles in the hope that the chief magnates of the realm might consent to bearing a sphere of physical burden. The Noble's and Bishopric's voluntary participation unfortunately was not enough: many would not give-up their tax-exempt status. It was then that the demand arose for convocation of the Estates Generale. (This body was composed-of representatives of the three great Estates or classes of the nation.) The Summer of 1788 saw Louis zield to the popular clamor by summoning a meeting of the Estates in May, the following year. [The three orders should not sit together and vote by head.]
Since the Commoners had already been granted a number of representatives equal to that of the two other classes comined, it was plain that the Third Estate, by drawing occasional support from the Nobles and Clergy, would be able to control the whole body!
After a month of wrangling, the Third Estate of 17 JUNE, boldly proclaimed itself: "The National Assembly"; and, invited the members of the privileged orders to join in its work. Many of them actually did! So, within two days, a majority of the Clergy went over, as well as a sprinkling of the Nobles. The Commoners and their allies were of such a vast number under the leadership of Mirabeau and the Abb Sieyes, that they went to the tennis court and bound themselves by a solemn oath...on the 20th June 1789...not to separate until they had drafted a Constitution for France. By proclaiming the authority to remake the government in the name of the people, the Estates Generale asserted its right to act as the highest sovereign power in the nation.
On the 27th of June, King Louis XVI, virtually conceded his right, by ordering the remaining delegates of the privileged
classes to meet with the Third Estate as members of a National Assembly.
Three years passed-on; and on the 20th of June, commemorating "The Oath of the Tennis Court" Versailles was attaked. King Louis fled to the National Assembly (believing that the representative body which he helped to institute, would keep him safe from the mob-masses of Paris).
Instead of safety, in Church assylum, they placed Louis under arrest on charges of "conspiracy against national freedom"!!! (They said that his attempt to escape France
at Varennes in 1791 proved his "disloyalty to France"!) In a mockery of a trial, in such similitude as that of Our Savior, on the 16th of January he was voted "guilty" [supposedly by a count of 690 out-of 719]. Louis was condemned to the guillotine....IN REALITY, it was Louis XVI's abolitionist brother [the so-called Louis XVIII] residing in Belgium who damaged his reputation...making the populace totally forget that Louis XVI had already relinquished all surviving powers he may have had THREE-YEARS PRIOR to the Esates Generale! Louis XVI's last words before his execution were:
How noble and selfless this last statement of Louis XVI (so in-tune with Our Savior)....
And thus began the great bloodbath, and the horrible (un-heard-of prior) persecution of the Holy Roman-Catholic Church in France: Christ's Eldest daughter....
Bio of King Louis XVI
Das Leid in der franzischen Revolution
I am writing this in response to "RCESQ" who dismissed the importance of King Louis XVI:
In 1773, finally surrendering to an unjust 20 year campaign of intrigues and calumny, Pope Clement ordered the Order of the Society of Jesus, formerly the bulwurk of the Church (its official right-hand and its most highly regarded) the arm of missionary might and yeald, severed! The driving force behind this were the writers and thinkers of the new "French Enlightenment" movement, agnostics and athiests. Voltaire wrote:
Quote:
Once we have destroyed the Jesuits, we should have easy work with the Church.
...Things were made worse when Louis XVI answered the request of Benjamin Franklin, America's ambassador to France, to help intervene in the American War for Independence. France gave America monies, troops, and a young Marquis deLafayette. The cost of maintaining fleets and armies in the Western Hemisphere for more than three years bankrupted the French government. Baron deMontesquieu[1689-1755] is famous for his theory of the separation of powers, in order to prevent the absolute supremacy of the majority (expressed as it normally would be through the people's representatives inthe legislature.
deMontesquieu despised despotic government in all forms, whether of the few, or of the masses. Montesquieu's principles were incorporated into the first of the French Governments under Louis XVI (set-up during this prephase to the French Revolution)...finding its way (with very few changes) eventually into the American Constitution of the United States. Stirring passions up in Strasbourg, Jean-Frederick Oberlin wrote: "Patrioticsm, Revolution and Liberation".
In 1777, the general director of France, Necker, undertook to restore public credit in France by ignaugerating a taxation policy which placed the burdens upon the poor and the rich alike. He likewise instituted various internal reforms, improved the administration of justice and sought the abolition of surfdom. These reforms were heartedly supported by King Louis XVI.
Louis was a man of fine physique and skilled in both the manual arts and sciences. Louis grew up with a sincere regard for the loftier elements which enoble man.
Even though the people of France were in strong sympathy with the American Independence movement (giving also moral support as well as financial support) discontent grew in France where the economy grew weaker and weaker.
In 1787, Louis XVI summoned an assembly of Nobles in the hope that the chief magnates of the realm might consent to bearing a sphere of physical burden. The Noble's and Bishopric's voluntary participation unfortunately was not enough: many would not give-up their tax-exempt status. It was then that the demand arose for convocation of the Estates Generale. (This body was composed-of representatives of the three great Estates or classes of the nation.) The Summer of 1788 saw Louis zield to the popular clamor by summoning a meeting of the Estates in May, the following year. [The three orders should not sit together and vote by head.]
Since the Commoners had already been granted a number of representatives equal to that of the two other classes comined, it was plain that the Third Estate, by drawing occasional support from the Nobles and Clergy, would be able to control the whole body!
After a month of wrangling, the Third Estate of 17 JUNE, boldly proclaimed itself: "The National Assembly"; and, invited the members of the privileged orders to join in its work. Many of them actually did! So, within two days, a majority of the Clergy went over, as well as a sprinkling of the Nobles. The Commoners and their allies were of such a vast number under the leadership of Mirabeau and the Abb Sieyes, that they went to the tennis court and bound themselves by a solemn oath...on the 20th June 1789...not to separate until they had drafted a Constitution for France. By proclaiming the authority to remake the government in the name of the people, the Estates Generale asserted its right to act as the highest sovereign power in the nation.
On the 27th of June, King Louis XVI, virtually conceded his right, by ordering the remaining delegates of the privileged
classes to meet with the Third Estate as members of a National Assembly.
Three years passed-on; and on the 20th of June, commemorating "The Oath of the Tennis Court" Versailles was attaked. King Louis fled to the National Assembly (believing that the representative body which he helped to institute, would keep him safe from the mob-masses of Paris).
Instead of safety, in Church assylum, they placed Louis under arrest on charges of "conspiracy against national freedom"!!! (They said that his attempt to escape France
at Varennes in 1791 proved his "disloyalty to France"!) In a mockery of a trial, in such similitude as that of Our Savior, on the 16th of January he was voted "guilty" [supposedly by a count of 690 out-of 719]. Louis was condemned to the guillotine....IN REALITY, it was Louis XVI's abolitionist brother [the so-called Louis XVIII] residing in Belgium who damaged his reputation...making the populace totally forget that Louis XVI had already relinquished all surviving powers he may have had THREE-YEARS PRIOR to the Esates Generale! Louis XVI's last words before his execution were:
Quote:
I die innocent, I pray that my blood come not upon France.
How noble and selfless this last statement of Louis XVI (so in-tune with Our Savior)....
And thus began the great bloodbath, and the horrible (un-heard-of prior) persecution of the Holy Roman-Catholic Church in France: Christ's Eldest daughter....
Bio of King Louis XVI
Das Leid in der franzischen Revolution
