Reflections on the French Revolution (Section 13), by Edmund Burke

Episode • Jul 15, 2021 • 13m

What the Fourth of July is to Americans, the Fourteenth of July is to Frenchmen. It commemorates an oppressive tyranny overthrown by a freedom-loving people. (Volume 24, Harvard Classics)

The Bastille surrendered, July 14, 1789.

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