A bas les aristos!

[Michael Rolls]

seems appropriate looking at the Macron thread - - today is Bastille Day!

[Alex]

Interesting note..........Every year, France hosts a special guest for Bastille Day, and this year it is Indonesia, with President Prabowo Subianto representing the world's biggest Muslim country.

[Michael Rolls]

Buttering up?

[Alex]

Buttering up?

Trying to persuade Prabowo Subianto to take back some of the 7 million muslims they have in France perhaps 

[Michael Rolls]

exactly

[klondike]

My knowledge of French history is grim. I've heard of Bastille day but know nothing about it. Some sort of fortress in Paris that was breached? Maybe or maybe I just made that up. Hopeless.

[muddy]

A prison in Paris but when they stormed  it there were only seven prisoners inside .
But it is symbolic of Republican France .
( They got shut of their monarchy soon after ) 

[Michael Rolls]

the sans culottes regarded the Bastille as a symbol of oppression