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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 ....
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. ....