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July 14-20, 1789

Few schoolchildren, perhaps even in these anti-history days, are unfamiliar with "Bastille Day," the famous occasion on July 14, 1789 when the French mob of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, and set in motion the bloody process called the French Revolution. To this day, July 14 is celebrated in France as a day of liberation. And admirers from around the world, such as the group Dems.com in the U.S. today, frequently join in.

Yet, as a genuine republican holiday, Bastille Day is a fraud! We share here the real history behind that fraud, in an excerpt and précis from an article by Pierre Beaudry, published on Jan. 26, 2001 in Executive Intelligence Review. That article celebrated the true French republicans, Jean Sylvain Bailly and the Marquis de Lafayette, whose efforts in coordination with Benjamin Franklin and other American revolutionaries were disrupted and destroyed, by design, by the process set in motion on Bastille Day.

Beaudry wrote of July 14:

"What is not generally known, is that this was not a true revolution, but a counter-revolution, organized from the headquarters of the 'radical writers' club' of Lord Shelburne and Jeremy Bentham, head of intelligence, in England, which orchestrated, with the complicity of Finance Minister Necker, the Duke of Orléans (otherwise known as Philippe Égalité), and Baron Pierre-Victor Besenval, the massacre of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 (see EIR, April 21, 2000, p. 64). This in turn spawned the terrorist actions of the Jacobin leaders Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Jacques Danton, and Maximilian Robespierre, and the Reign of Terror. As he reported in his memoirs, Bailly had evidence that Marquis de Launay, the Governor of the Bastille, had opened the doors of the prison to Pierre-Victor, Baron de Besenval of Bronstadt, a Swiss officer, commander of the foreign troops that had invaded Paris, in 1789, and who ordered him to set up, in June of that year, at least two weeks before Bastille Day, 'special artillery platforms for the emplacement of cannons pointed toward the boulevard, Saint-Antoine Place, and the side of the Arsenal.'

"What is also not generally known, is that the Bastille terrorist action was aimed at destroying the heroic actions of Franklin's associates, Bailly and Lafayette, and their efforts to replicate a second American Revolution on the European continent. As such, the Bastille served as a smokescreen to overshadow the solemn Tennis Court Oath of June 20, 1789, which had already demonstrated the true national sovereignty of the National Assembly as a representative government of France. In fact, the event of the swearing of the oath represented the culmination of several powerful legislative decisions made by Bailly's National Assembly, which reflected the 'act of constitution' of a National Assembly that established the foundations of a true republic."

What Beaudry documents, beyond doubt, is that Bailly, who was a Leibnizian scientist of astronomy, the first republican mayor of Paris, and the first organizer of the Paris Guard, was actually the founder of the revolutionary National Assembly of France, an Assembly which had dissolved the feudal form of government, and committed itself to republicanism weeks before the Bastille Day event. Yes, Bailly, and Lafayette, were in favor of maintaining the monarchy under France's new Constitution, but it was not to be an absolute monarchy. The alternative to their proposal was the disastrous manipulation of the street mobs by the oligarchy, which turned the country over to Jacobin mob-rule, in order to better "restore order" through the likes of the dictator Napoleon later on.
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