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CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions...
...azure-and-gilt hot-air balloon, a reproduction of an 18th century model, wafted skyward in a "salute to liberty" as thousands of spectators gathered in the Tuileries Gardens last January for the official launch of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. The Republican Guard played a fanfare. An actor solemnly read the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen...
...appropriate start -- first uplift, then excess. Just like the original revolution. Reconciliation is the official theme of the 200th anniversary of modern France's cataclysmic birth, but nearly four months into the celebration the French seem as much cleaved as healed by the occasion. For if the revolution sprang from the idealism of the Enlightenment, promising liberty and equality, it soon deteriorated into a bloodbath that led to a dictatorship. Ever since, lurching wildly through two empires, two royal restorations and five republics, democratic France has tried to bridge the contradictions posed by its brutal beginning. Even today, when...
...Battle of Puebla ended in a victory of the supposedly inferior Mexican troops over the French, said Fidel A. Ovalle '92, chairperson of the social and cultural committee of RAZA, which means "race" in Spanish. The Mexicans went on to lose the war, but the battle still represents a "triumph of spirit," Ovalle said...
Today is the sixth and last day of the Cinco de Mayo celebration sponsored by the Mexican-American student group RAZA, commemorating one victory the Mexicans won against the French during Maximilian's war to annex Mexico, RAZA members said...