The far-right National Rally (RN) have said they would abstain in Tuesday’s vote and the hard left France Unbowed (LFI) is also opposed to the security pact.

“I do not want Emmanuel Macron to have free rein,” RN chief Jordan Bardella said, accusing Macron of leading France onto an “irresponsible, dangerous path.”

  • freagleEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    220 years ago, in 1804:

    • Haiti gains independence from France after years of slave rebellion
    • The Nguyễn dynasty emperor Gia Long changes his country’s official name from Đại Việt to Việt Nam (France colonizes Vietnam 50 years later)
    • The Napoleonic Code is adopted as French civil law
    • Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate
      • Napoleon invades Russia via Ukraine only 8 years later, recognized among the most devastating military endeavors globally
      • The casus belli was stated as enforcing sanctions against the UK
    • A formal ceremony is conducted to transfer the Louisiana Purchase from France to the USA
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition embarks
    • Aaron Burr killed Hamilton
    • The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reformed the way that candidates for President and Vice President are chosen, is ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption
    • Morphine is first isolated from opium

    It’s stunning how much of the past exists in the present. Some might even say all of history exists in the present. France’s relationship to the above cannot be ignored in the present day for obvious reasons - so much of what happened based on just 1804 is relevant to the current news cycle.