MY SAY: BASTILLE DAY JULY 14, 1789 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BEGAN
While the French went on to bathe the nation in blood, beheadings and a reign of terror, the same year 1789, Americans elected George Washington our first and magnificent President who had been sworn in on April 30, 1789.
It was far from real “egalite” in America as only white men of property had been allowed to vote, but it was the embryo of what became the greatest democracy in history. Vive l’Amerique!
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