And isn't it funny, Marcel, how, just a century before, Versailles, which was built so the French aristocracy didn't have to live among the Parisians, embodied everything the average Frenchman thought was wrong with France?I think we were discussing the origins of ww1.
One remark I think I read a while back fron DonL was that he thought the reclamation of the German Empire in 1871 was not one of the causes of ww1, or something to that effect. I cannot find it, but it is in this thread somewhere.
My answer to that is that the the fact that Wilhelm I was crowned in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, of all places. This is of course an insult in the eyes of every proud Frenchman, which doesn't help to lessen the tention that was already there. Although not a direct cause, it certainly helped on the road to WWI.