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“two white men were put on trial for a particularly gruesome set of murders in the French Congo; to celebrate Bastille Day, one had exploded a stick of dynamite in a black prisoner’s rectum. Copying” quote by Adam Hochschild — Download Open image

““two white men were put on trial for a particularly gruesome set of murders in the French Congo; to celebrate Bastille Day, one had exploded a stick of dynamite in a black prisoner’s rectum. Copying””

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Bastille Day is just like the Fourth of July except it takes place in France and we don't care about it.

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If you'd been a prisoner liberated from the Bastille, I'd have carefully considered your plight before alerting the authorities.

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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on…

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I would be in my cabana at the Hotel de Cat, and there he would be. Amid all the fireworks on Bastille Day, all…

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This Bastille Day, let's pause to admire a country where leaders are celebrated for screwing hot models rather than impeached for ejaculating on interns.

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“That is indeed the best way to dumb down the masses: make them do the same thing over and over; let them have their…

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I'm boycotting Bastille Day because I'm still upset about France not supporting a war we were totally wrong about.

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This holiday has made me acutely aware I've never knowingly spoken to a French person.

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In honor of Bastille Day, I promise not to mispronounce my many requests for a menage a trois.

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This Bastille Day, let's be even more pretentious about ordering wine.

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