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- LETTERS, Page 12French Bicentennial
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- It is no wonder that, as you say, "200 years later, the
- French are still quarreling about the revolution" (WORLD, May
- 1). Promising liberty and equality gives rise to a
- contradiction.
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- George Steiner Toronto
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- The French Revolution inspired people everywhere to fight
- for their rights. The event, despite its shortcomings, affected
- people across the Channel, the Rhine and the Alps and fashioned
- the world into what it is today. Cause for celebration there is,
- but not for complacency. We must dedicate the bicentennial to
- today's third estate, to all those who are denied the rights
- that we in the free world take for granted.
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- Alain Rossignol Le Havre, France
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- The antipathy of some Frenchmen toward the 200th
- anniversary of the victory of a mob over legal authority in 18th
- century France is understandable. Some Americans feel a similar
- aversion to Fourth of July hoopla when they remember the ill
- treatment given loyalists during our own Revolution. The Society
- of Loyalist Descendants tries to commemorate those whose lives
- and property suffered under the 1776 insurgents.
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- G. Thomas Crichton Atlanta
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