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"Yesterday I told you, war to the death with Bonaparte; today I say, rescue the French Republic by any means!"
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFrench-Jewish artillery captain #AlfredDreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in a military court on #ThisDayInHistory in 1894. No evidence was presented; the #DreyfusAffair was #Judeophobic scapegoating for the #FrancoPrussianWar loss & a clear example of French #antisemitism.
Bryan F WilsonRachel Chrastil's "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" brings these human stories to the forefront, creating what critics have called "the definitive history of a transformative conflict." #FrancoPrussianWar
http://bfwclassroom.com/2025/07/29/bookreview-rachel-chrastils-bismarcks-war/
damian entwistleToday's poem:
September
- by Hilaire Belloc
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/789485860005527552/september?source=share
#poetry #war #death #battle #Sedan #FrancoPrussianWar #france #empire #republic
Carmelite QuotesQuote of the day, 24 May: Hermann Cohen
I am at Spandau where you made your First Communion in the sacristy. In this sacristy, I vest every day to say Mass and to preach to the French prisoners.
I have been named Chaplain to the five thousand three hundred [5,300] French prisoners of war who are here. 500 are sick with typhus and dysentery so that I am fully occupied.
Every morning, about 400 of these soldiers are conducted here with their company to my Mass, in such a way that they are all obliged to come and see me in turn.
Then I go to the hospital to minister to the sick, and in the afternoon I go to the barracks to visit those who are well.
Pray hard for their conversion. Those who are well have not all been to confession yet.
Servant of God Hermann Cohen
Father Augustine-Mary of the Blessed Sacrament, O.C.D.
Letter to his sister Henrietta
6 December 1870
Note: Hermann Cohen contracted smallpox while ministering to the French prisoners of the Franco-Prussian War who were detained at Spandau prison. He died from the illness on 20 January 1871.
Tierney, T 2017, A Life of Hermann Cohen: From Franz Liszt to John of the Cross, Balboa Press, Bloomington, IN
Featured image: Photographer Joerg Euken captured this image of winter in Spandau on 5 December 2016. Image credit: Joerg Euken / Flickr (Some rights reserved)
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What would heroic fidelity to my vocation look like in this season of my life?
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