One month short of 178 years ago, the last king of France fled in exile after the storming of the Bastille, a prison fortress where kings locked away their political enemies, using instruments of torture like the Iron Maiden, the Strappado (rack), and bone crushers, igniting the French Revolution. Today’s French Republic is built on democratic ideals. Citing Voltaire, a French author, philosopher, and Bastille prisoner, “It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong.”
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