Century after that revolution, in 1788, that the same mirabeau defied the king of france and set the will of the people against the king, with the First National assembly, the first parliamentary body, and this was quite simply his ambition, to transpose the british model of constitutional monarchy. In the end, it was the english who almost had the french revolution, but in france developed towards another system and on the 21st Of September exactly 231 years ago to the day, the republic was born. And so our two pupils have been watching one another, influencing one another, have for many years been rivals, but for more than a century have always been allies to defend democracy and human rights. The different commemorations we have recall this and next year, in 2024, we shall be celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale and the 80th Anniversary of the normandy landings. And as vera lynn saying, we shall meet again, we shall meet again to continue to seal this compact of
Or something in between . Well hear from a Prominent Brexiteer and remainer. And eat your heart out, theresa may. Frances president macron has a new party, and it seems to be dominating french politics at the expense of the socialists. What are the lessons for us, and the implications for europe . And Katie Razzall has gone back to the very start of theresa mays campaign, to find out just what went wrong for the pm there. Do you feel that you were very instrumental in whats happened in this election . Definitely. I feel like weve caused it, because weve gone from having such a small turnout amongst 18 24 year olds to having a massive one. Hello. For better or worse, Hung Parliaments offer an excuse to parties to jettison the difficult promises made in their manifesto. We saw that in the Tory Lib Dem Coalition of 2010. Were seeing the tories prune away bits of their manifesto now, as they negotiate with the dup. But the really Big Question Hanging Over Westminster is whether our Hung Pa
some salmon. gravlax of char. solomon grundy. beets and eggs. anthony: look at that. [ david speaking french ] anthony: unbelievable. look at the aspic work. fred: this is smoked eel and potatoes inside. [ man speaking french ] salmon pastrami. anthony: and wait a minute. this is super classic. david: oeuf en gelee. anthony: and this, oeuf en gelee. egg in aspic. soft boiled or poached egg in clear gelatin-set broth, classically garnished with white ham, tarragon leaves, black truffles. oh, my god. i was pretty sure that i would live the rest of my life without ever seeing this again. delicious. but tonight, after a full week of franco-canadian full-on assaults on our livers and our lights, fred and dave thought it would be both delicious and merciful to take advantage of the somewhat lighter and insanely delicious fare by their brilliant chef, omar, who is from pakistan.
this is patrick: okay, stop apologizing, okay? [ laughter ] anthony: don t get me wrong. my last name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. patrick: you don t think it s preposterous? anthony: i do not think it s preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding
oh, of course. david: now, what was the other anthony: don t forget the foie. quebec city. one of the oldest european settlements in north america. samuel de champlain, known as the father of new france, sailed up the st. lawrence and founded this site in 1608. when the fighting started with you-know-who, quebec city was the french stronghold. until the bitter end, when the french fell at the plains of abraham. the french may have lost that one, but some things french have stayed firm, unbowed, resiliently unchanged by trends or history. le continental is the kind of place about which i am unreservedly sentimental.