{"id":927,"date":"2010-07-14T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/as-ever-vive-la-france-and-pass-the-wine.html"},"modified":"2010-07-14T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:54:45","slug":"as-ever-vive-la-france-and-pass-the-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/as-ever-vive-la-france-and-pass-the-wine.html","title":{"rendered":"As ever, vive la France (and pass the wine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Bastille Day. You know the drill:<object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/x23dsg\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/x23dsg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>I&#8217;m in a pickle: a Francophile who thinks that despite the corruption of the <i>ancien regime<\/i>, that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France\">the Revolution of 1789 was a disaster<\/a>. Still, I don&#8217;t sing the revolutionary anthem because I support the Jacobins. I sing it because I love France. I wish all French people, and all fellow friends of France, <em>une bonne fete.<\/em> Are you going to cook anything tonight to celebrate? We&#8217;re going out to dinner, to a neighborhood French restaurant. If you don&#8217;t want to go out tonight, why not bring home a bottle of French wine? I&#8217;ve been drinking a lot of Burgundy lately, both white (Saint-Veran) and red (Beaune). <b>UPDATE:<\/b> I&#8217;ve just learned of an annual Bastille Day tradition here in Philadelphia: a comic celebration of the storming of the Bastille, held at the (now unused) Eastern State Penitentiary. It&#8217;s a big comic event, which culminates in &#8220;Marie Antoinette&#8221; and her confreres standing on the prison wall yelling, &#8220;Let them eat Tastykake&#8221; &#8212; then pelting the crowd with Philly&#8217;s hometown squishy-creamy treat. 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