Trump, Macron and the media: Why we must lump not dump Donald Trump
President Donald Trump was French president Macron’s guest of honour for Bastille Day. La Fête nationale marks the storming of the Bastille prison on 14 July 1789 – the flashpoint for the French Revolution which eventually led to the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy and the execution of Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette. Ordinary people would no longer accept the absolute power of the king.
The symbolism should not be lost.
It was also 100th anniversary o
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