For Bastille Day. This is us at Farleigh Hungerford doing a living history in about 1990. I am lying down smoking. Enhanced slightly.
For Bastille Day. This is us at Farleigh Hungerford doing a living history in about 1990. I am lying down smoking. Enhanced slightly.
Piaf in technicolor singing an anthem of the Women's March on Versailles, a signficant event in French Revolution. No longer the mournful tragedienne in black and white with tales of love and heartbreak, rather a spirited revolutionary singing boldly with brio and conviction, "The aristocrats to the lamp posts." It was the aristocrats who brought street lamps to Paris, now the people would see them hanging from them. The women stormed Versailles, demanding simply bread, which had been limited and overpriced for the people, while the royalty threw great banquets for themselves.
For the historical background of this song, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27...