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The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.

  • paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.

Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title

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[–] Sanctus 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

French have been our homes since Day 0. Always got solidarity for our brothers in democracy over there. They got way more spice and fight than we do.