Word: jacobin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Local governments in western France helped raise funds for a $7 million movie called Vent de Galerne, which opened last month, about the republican army's savage repression of peasant rebels in the Vendee. In Lyons a historical society is tracing the descendants of 3,000 executed in anti-Jacobin uprisings. "The bicentennial is more an occasion for mourning than for celebration," says philosopher Jean-Marie Benoist, a former adviser to Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Asks Sorbonne historian Pierre Chaunu: "Why should we celebrate a failure...
...financial resources will be shifted from Paris to local governments. This will be the subject of a second bill to be submitted to Parliament next year. But the first step was impressive enough. Said the liberal newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris: "We went to sleep in July in a Jacobin state more in the tradition of the monarchy than of the French Revolution. And voilà, we woke up in August in a decentralized country. What an adventure...
...country... Brown's not even a flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into...