Bastille Day is the National Holiday of France, under Republican regimes. It celebrates the storming of a decaying prison during the French Revolution, by a frenzied mob. Emmanuel Macron is one of those specific French wunderkinds; who thinks he is more sophisticated than anyone; because, as a high school student, he attended a high school drama club and seduced the mother of a fellow student; who was supervising the club. They married in 2007. Macron is one of those specific French wunderkinds, who thinks he is smarter than History, Russian Cossacks, Prussian generals, Vietnamese guerillas and Algerian nationalists.  Smarter than History itself, smarter than historical determinism, smarter than ancient enmities.  He isn’t. Macron was a Socialist politician; but he broke ranks and broke the French  Socialist Party by  running for the Presidency, in 2017, as the candidate of a new party; which he had founded, centered around himself. He won 66% of the vote, defeating ...

This Blogger’s brother was in Paris, when Paris waited for French Foreign Legion paras to fly from Algiers to overthrow the French Republic.   That attempted coup was foiled when Charles de Gaulle went on television, in his World War II general’s uniform and summoned up the mystic chords of memory.    General Jacques Massu, the para general who had defeated the Arab revolutionary organization, the FLN, in the legendary Battle of Algiers, remained loyal to De Gaulle. France was saved, without a Civil War.   That was then; De Gaulle and Massu are both dead.    In 2021, the Generals are back, to save the French Republic, seemingly by any means necessary.   They have published what is basically a pronunciamiento,    a cri de guerre, for Civil War against Islamic migrants.  They intend to save France from the    Islamic migrant hordes, living in  banlieues, by blood and fire, by violence.   So the race is on, which republi...