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LETTERS, Page 12French Bicentennial
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.
George Steiner
Toronto
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.
Alain Rossignol
Le Havre, France
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.
G. Thomas Crichton
Atlanta