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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:23 PM Oct 2015

So which side would the Clinton's be on in the French Revolution?

Just curious, since the subject was brought up for the rest of us

1. With Marat and the sans-coulottes


2. With Robespierre and the Jacobins


3. With de Sade and the Montagnards


4. With Lafayette and the Girondins


5. Under the guillotine

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So which side would the Clinton's be on in the French Revolution? (Original Post) Katashi_itto Oct 2015 OP
Marie Antoinette's peacebird Oct 2015 #1
^^^THIS!^^^ 99Forever Oct 2015 #15
Opposing free market reforms like Marie did? Recursion Oct 2015 #18
I did not know that! Thank you! peacebird Oct 2015 #20
Now that's making up some stuff. upaloopa Oct 2015 #2
Depends on who'd pony up the most cash. elehhhhna Oct 2015 #3
The same side as Sherrod Brown and John Lewis! Walk away Oct 2015 #4
She is smart so probably Kalidurga Oct 2015 #5
Post removed Post removed Oct 2015 #6
Are you serious? Buzz cook Oct 2015 #7
Nice answer from someone who BlueMTexpat Oct 2015 #10
I love this answer to a totally ridiculous question.Bravo. sufrommich Oct 2015 #16
Oh great, some more red meat for anti Clinton crowd. But to answer your question ... Persondem Oct 2015 #8
Whichever side seemed to have the upper hand at any given point Armstead Oct 2015 #9
The same side they're always on Pinkie Fumesucker Oct 2015 #11
5. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2015 #12
Orleanist: keeping the bread carts out of town, leading mobs into their cousins' apartments MisterP Oct 2015 #13
Other: With King George III. Zorra Oct 2015 #14
They wouldn't be married to each other, first off Recursion Oct 2015 #17
... SidDithers Oct 2015 #19

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
18. Opposing free market reforms like Marie did?
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:15 AM
Oct 2015

Interesting. Necker, whom she opposed at all turns, was against subsidising bread for the poor (as were the Jacobins); she was for it. She also never said "let them eat cake". She gets a bad rap.

Response to Katashi_itto (Original post)

Buzz cook

(2,471 posts)
7. Are you serious?
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:48 PM
Oct 2015

The answer for either should be obvious.

Bill Clinton was an orphan in a rural area were the odds of his survival to adulthood would be very poor. He had no familial connections to get a trade and certainly no way to get into the petite bourgeoisie. He'd be an illiterate laborer, at best. He wouldn't have been given the choice to side with the aristocrats.

Hillary was born into the petite bourgeoisie or more likely trade. She also would have been illiterate, schooled only in the womanly virtues. If she had married up she still wouldn't have been an aristocratic on any level. However it's possible her husband could have been involved in serving the aristocracy in some way.
Which ever side Hillary's husband decided he was on would be the one Hillary would be on. She wouldn't get to choose.

Persondem

(1,936 posts)
8. Oh great, some more red meat for anti Clinton crowd. But to answer your question ...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:49 PM
Oct 2015

6. They would have moved to the Colonies 15 years earlier.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
13. Orleanist: keeping the bread carts out of town, leading mobs into their cousins' apartments
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 12:04 AM
Oct 2015

starting whispering campaigns about how the Queen's a *gasp* Autre chienne

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
17. They wouldn't be married to each other, first off
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:13 AM
Oct 2015

As a bourgeois woman she probably wouldn't have participated directly at all.

Chicago is probably roughly equivalent to Marseille, so her husband would probably be a Girondin.

Bill as a poor rural orphan would probably have ended up revolting in the Vendee with the other western peasants.

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