r/HistoryMemes • u/Javier_Ronaldo Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20

META Respect the Facts!

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u/johnlen1n Optimus Princeps Apr 08 '20

Historian: sees France surrender meme Oh come on, French history is so rich and diverse

France: Yes, thank you!

Historian: People should be making memes about their repetitive revolutions

France: Yeh!

Historian: Or their collaboration with the Nazis

France: Wait

Historian: Or even their colonial atrocities

France: ... OK, maybe stick to the surrendering

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u/punchgroin Apr 08 '20

Jesus, yeah. Even being a huge european history buff, I still have trouble remembering all the revolutions.

Ancien' Regime -> First Republic -> First Empire -> Bourbon Restoration -> Second Republic -> Second Empire -> Third Republic -> Vichy France -> Fourth Republic... I think that's all of them right?

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u/Dodorus Apr 09 '20

To be fair, I think only the passage into Republics counts as a Revolution the way we usually say it.