#bastilleday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bastilleday, aggregated by home.social.
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“Regardless of its provenance & authorship, ‘The Tree of Liberty’ openly relies on Burns the writer & national icon for its effectiveness…”
—Corey E. Andrews, “Radical Attribution: Robert Burns & ‘The Liberty Tree’”
Studies in Scottish Literature 41/1, 20153/3
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol41/iss1/15/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet #18thcentury #19thcentury #radicalism
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The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation. #Abolition #Abolitionofslavery #abolitionism #BastilleDay #CivilRights #Civilwar #Colonialism #DeclarationofIndependence #Democracy #Emancipation #Frenchempire #FrenchRevolution #Haiti #Napoleon #Revolution #Robespierre #Slavery #ToussaintLouverture #USCivilWar
https://iwpost.com/the-forgotten-story-of-abolition-in-revolutionary-france-the-first-emancipation/?fsp_sid=11768 -
One of my local cinemas has a showing of #Amelie for #BastilleDay. I honestly can’t think of a better way to celebrate both Audrey Tautou AND murdering aristocrats in the one sitting. It’s perfect.