France and US: Vive la Difference

Edward Glaeser, Boston Globe
IN FRANCE, unlike in the United States, prevailing in the capital city has been enough to remake the whole country, and not just in terms of political power.Two hundred twenty-two years ago today, Parisians stormed the Bastille - the citadel and prison in the heart of their city. While the American Revolution required years of fighting from the fields of Concord to the woods of the Carolinas, an upheaval in Paris alone ensured major shifts in power in France in 1789 - and again in 1830, 1848, and 1871.The stark contrast between the French and American revolutions back then sheds light on...

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