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...seat performance house, complete with classic, gilded, Louis XVI-style chandeliers, was funded completely by the Carr Foundation. Created in February of 1999, the foundation concentrates on human rights education and the arts...
...Champs-Elysees, Paris's widest Grand Boulevard, capped by the Place de la Concorde (where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined) at one end and the Arc de Triomphe at the other, no longer looks French. Resembling a giant strip mall, it's not even particularly pretty. I believe it has two McDonald's. (And in the esprit d'egalite two Quicks, France's fast food counterpart.) It has a wildly popular Ben & Jerry's, Citibank, Planet Hollywood and even a Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. It's enough to make anyone cheer for Jose Bove. And I did. After...
...Rumors swirled that the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived on: that he had escaped on his own, or been spirited away by royalists who replaced him with a commoner, or that Robespierre himself, betraying a soft spot that has escaped historians, had earlier connived at the boy's flight. Time and again over the following decades, the "real" dauphin--among the dozens, a stable boy and a Prussian clockmaker--revealed himself...
...Fraternite, these vestiges of the older aristocratic days are more than a little surprising among those who advocate "social justice" at all costs. Would the leaders of the French revolution be pleased to learn that, near the Place de la Concorde, where they beheaded Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI for their decadence and officially ended the absolute rule of the monarchy, there now stands one of the most expensive hotels in the world, the Hotel Crillon...
Getting kicked out may have been nothing new for the rabble-rouser, who had been expelled from St. Paul's a few years earlier "for the good of the school," but some scholars remain thoroughly unimpressed by the pot gesture. "Very unoriginal of Hearst. Louis XVI did the same thing to Franklin," remarks Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn, who wrote on Harvard's origins in Glimpses of the Harvard Past...