AT Galliawatch, Tiberge recently posted the extraordinary statement of Henri, Comte de Paris, from the Orléans line of the Bourbon dynasty, in response to a report on integration, which recommends, among other things, that Arabic be taught in French schools and that immigrants not be expected to give up their cultural identity. The Count wrote:

Is it necessary to recall what everybody knows: the extraordinary prophecies of George Orwell? It is true that it will always have been easier and more exciting to destroy a world rich from its culture, its efforts, and to erase forever the memory of the original roots of the people, whoever they may be. All of this on the pretext of providing a false new joie de vivre for future slaves, forced to choose between submission to the dictatorship of political correctness and absolute exclusion.

If France never succumbed to the blows, often fatal, that have been dealt her, it is because she still has a soul. At times, so dark and deep was the night of History, we might have thought that France had lost this soul, but in reality it was still there, riveted to the body of this old land where so many of our dead lie. The dead who fell at Bouvines, Rocroi, Denain, Jemmapes, Waterloo, Sedan, on the Marne and at Verdun, for France.

It so happens that in recent times there are those who try to re-write the History of our country without all these dead whom they find cumbersome, without Christianity that brought our country to the baptismal fonts and even fashioned its physiognomy, without those kings and two emperors, hardly “republicans”, who made of France what it is.

Yes, some would like our country to be completely different from what it is, or more precisely, they would like it to be France no more. France should apologize for having been France, for not having been born in the form of a secular social republic in the 5th century after Jesus-Christ, for having spread its power beyond the sea, for having waged war and peace on the entire continent, for having built cathedrals and castles. Finally, the French people should blush for having entrusted their destiny for centuries to “white heterosexual males” who – it seems – clutter up the Pantheon and our history books, and who deserve to be chased out. And yet it was essentially “foreign”, “impure” blood, as the Marseillaise sings, that flowed in the veins of the kings who made France, but for nothing in the world would they have touched this country of which they were the depositaries through the coronation.

Today, to facilitate the integration of millions of foreigners who live in France, “specialists” are suggesting that another France be forged from whole cloth, more in conformity with the ideological dogmas of which they are the dangerous propagandists.

It happens that I am the head of a family that, for more than a millennium, incarnated this France that they are claiming to abolish, and by virtue of this, I cannot remain silent. [cont.]

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Thomas F. Bertonneau writes:

On Count Henri:

“Globalism” has made huge inroads, which means that the civilizational crisis is now global.  Whether we like it or not.  (Nothing about modernity is likeable.)  The leaders of Sanity, of Freedom and of Conscience, are Geert Wilders, Count Henri, and an absurd Cajun paterfamilias from “reality television.”  (I speak as a Créole, than which nothing could be more “opposite” from a Cajun.)  It is fitting that our crisis has spontaneously elected three an absurd trio to be its spokesman.  A fellow knows not whether to laugh or cry.

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