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I find I just can't have any sympathy for Versailles. La Marseillaise is 'the national identity' more than Versailles.

• airstrike 8y ago
  Why can’t you like both? Surely you can appreciate that the French monarchy had a non-zero impact in the French culture and identity that remains to this day
  • sp332 8y ago
    Yes, in that they cut/chiseled the heads off all representations of monarchy in Versailles. It seems mainly to serve as a negative example.
• realusername 8y ago
  And so what? The building is a wonderful piece of history worth to preserve.
• BrandoElFollito 8y ago
  Sure, let's cut some throats and see some blood flowing. /s I am a French republican at heart, proud of my country, and see our history as a complicated layer of events which all brought something in. As much Versailles as the Revolution, as the years of Christianity and the sweet laicity we have today.