Alexandria, VA – One wonderful thing about living in France is you always bump into something that you read about in school. Like walking through Alexandria, it’s hard to avoid running into something “revolutionary” in France, or at least that’s inspired other generations to action, which has been a byproduct of the French Revolution. Even something seemingly as silly as the color of park benches in Paris has its roots in the French Revolution.

We Americans like to think that we — our own Revolution — inspired the French to act and free themselves from the tyranny of the aristocracy. Our revolutionary excuse was being taxed to death without anything to say about it. “No taxation without representation” was the topic at every tavern in America, then after multiple tankards of beer and mead

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