July 14th - Bastille Day

Just to remind you chaps, today is Bastille day for the French. This is to honnour the beginning of the French Revolution, where France being robbed of liberty and equality by their unworthy King Louis XVI, took charge for the Bastille Prison. And the Revolution continued, with the inprisonment and legal beheading of the King and his Queen.

And just to celebrate, and a bit of a advertising opertunity , take a look at Revolution Order of War, the first mod to set NTW back to 1789, to this very day that many years ago.

But enjoy the day, I know the French will, and it was from this point in history, I personally believe created the modern free world we live in today.

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic, and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May. The first year of the Revolution witnessed members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October. The next few years were dominated by tensions between various liberal assemblies and a conservative monarchy intent on thwarting major reforms. A republic was proclaimed in September 1792 and King Louis XVI was executed the next year. External threats also played a dominant role in the development of the Revolution. The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian peninsula, the Low Countries, and most territories west of the Rhine—achievements that had defied previous French governments for centuries. Internally, popular sentiments radicalized the Revolution significantly, culminating in the brutal Reign of Terror from 1793 until 1794. After the fall of Robespierre and the Jacobins, the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795 and held power until 1799, when it was replaced by the Consulate under Napoleon Bonaparte.

The modern era has unfolded in the shadow of the French Revolution. The growth of republics and liberal democracies, the spread of secularism, the development of modern ideologies, and the invention of total war all mark their birth during the Revolution. Subsequent events that can be traced to the Revolution include the Napoleonic Wars, two separate restorations of the monarchy, and two additional revolutions as modern France took shape. In the following century, France would be governed at one point or another as a republic, constitutional monarchy, and two different empires.

Vive la France, Vive la Revolution, Vive la Republique

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Thats Bealzy, always making a big deal of things!

The start of nearly 20 years of epic slaughter. Vive la Everything!

Originally Posted by ♔Marshal Beale♔

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

I recently renamed my 3-122gun Ships of the Line in my French grand campaign to the above in honour of this coming date.

Vive la Revolution!

Excellent! Your mod looks very cool, can't wait to play it! but i can't resist pointing out that the subject of the painting "liberty leading the people" is the revolution of 1830, not 1789.

This might be more appropiate (but maybe less iconic):



or maybe:

Happy national day to all french! VIVE LE FRANCE!

Vive la révolution!

Vive la République! Vive la Nation! Vive la France!

Originally Posted by ambien

Excellent! Your mod looks very cool, can't wait to play it! but i can't resist pointing out that the subject of the painting "liberty leading the people" is the revolution of 1830, not 1789.

This might be more appropiate (but maybe less iconic):



or maybe:

Yes, I know, but the painting from the Revolution of 1830 is just so much cooler, and I see a lot of symbolicism in it, and it just brings out a lot emotion! So I loved it, even though its not correct, I just thought it would work best.

I agree that it better captures the revoltionary spirit than david's paintings (but it's interesting that david was both a painter of the revolution and a political participant in it)

what is the name of that film?

Also, will your mod simulate the reign of terror? will girondin generals and ministers periodically/randomly get the axe (either guillotine or exile)?

Morte de la Revolution! Vive le Roi!! Se souvenir de la Vendée!

Originally Posted by Septimius The Bold

Morte de la Revolution! Vive le Roi!! Se souvenir de la Vendée!

De la part d'un américain...c'est amusant.

Well,when Marat was murdered the revolution was already an ignorant furious blood bath.
Please don´t IDEALIZE french revolution because there were too many rolling heads by blind revenge.
Too many "illustrated men" created a terror-state for their own interests (political power and money).
Poor Robespierre...tasted his own medicine...

Originally Posted by ambien

what is the name of that film?

"La révolution Française" 2 films/ one DVD (1989)

- Les années lumiere by Robert Enrico ( 2h45)
- Les années térribles by Richard T. Heffron ( 2h50)


and

a spécial dedicace for "Septimius The Bold" :

Originally Posted by ambien

what is the name of that film?

Also, will your mod simulate the reign of terror? will girondin generals and ministers periodically/randomly get the axe (either guillotine or exile)?

The Reign of Terror should be a technology to be researched for the Republican side imho.

Originally Posted by Geronimo2006

The Reign of Terror should be a technology to be researched for the Republican side imho.

-2 happiness (nobility), +3 repression, -40 Diplomatic Relations, -5% cost to farms (corpse makes good fertilizer).