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The Bastille Tradition
Brinton, Crane | July 15, 1939 issue

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This article focuses on the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. The storming of the Bastille was an act of defiance against vested authority, a dramatic and concrete assertion that men can and will overthrow a government with which they are dissatisfied. Democracy has been a relatively rare political phenomenon and would seem to depend for its existence on favoring conditions that have been very difficult to maintain. Democracy has survived dictators like the two Napoleons, contrary faiths, at least two world wars and some economic depressions.

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BASTILLE Day; DICTATORSHIP; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENT policy; DEPRESSIONS; FASCISM
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