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Friday’s weather is mostly sunny. There is a possibility of showers in the morning, followed by showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. peaks in the lower nineties. 5 mph winds blow from the south. 90% chance of rain.Friday night: mostly overcast with a chance of showers and a slight risk of thunderstorms after midnight, with showers and thunderstorms expected in the evening. lower 70s at its lowest. 90% chance of rain.
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Following FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio program that features local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates, and the odd surprise guest, begins just after 9 a.m.View earlier podcasts here. at 1550 AM, 94.9 FM, and live on Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel on WNZF.
The meeting of the Scenic A1A Pride Committee was canceled.
Circle of Acoustic Jams The Hammock Community Center, located at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast, has a picnic shelter behind it from 2 to 5 p.m. The event is free. Join other local amateur musicians for a jam session with your acoustic stringed instrument (no amplifiers) and a folding chair. Both vocalists and audiences are welcome. In a jam circle format, musicians are seated in a circle. After calling out a song and a key, each musician takes turns leading the others in playing or singing. The next person in the circle is therefore the next to go. The musicians may alternately perform or improvise a verse and a chorus, depending on the tune. It’s a lot of fun! Those who merely wish to observe or perform typically sit beside their musical partner or on the sidelines. Every month on the fourth Friday, this event takes place.
At 12:15 p.m., the Flagler Democratic Office, located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) in City Marketplace, hosts the Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group run by local Democrats. Come and contribute your voice to national, state, and local politics.
Notably, on November 9, 1799—referred to as 18 Brumaire in the French revolutionary calendar—Napoleon took power in a coup. Although the coup was meticulously prepared, a few things went wrong, including Napoleon’s great idea to stage an assassination attempt against him that same day. The deception greatly benefited him and sealed the fate of the day (and France): it, Europe, and the millions of people who perished as a result would all be at his mercy for the next fifteen years. With 4 million deaths, including 1 million civilians, the Napoleonic Wars rank 26th among the deadliest events in The Great Big Book of Horrible Things. Napoleon’s planned coup on 18 Brumaire required him to watch the French assembly at St. Cloud while his accomplices carried out their scheme inside. By that time, he was a renowned army general. Before fleeing back to France, he had transformed devastating defeats in Egypt into wins and won a campaign in Italy. He was already hailed as France’s savior by blinder masses yearning to put an end to the decade of terrors during the Revolution, the Directorate’s incompetent leadership, and foreign invasions, and dreaded as a potential tyrant by those who could see through his conceit. The day was being seized by Napoleon. However, he required a divine act, and he was that divine act. He was falsely informed that he had been labeled an outlaw by the assembly’s Five Hundred. He began fabricating tales about having visited the chamber and being attacked by several assassins brandishing daggers. Nothing like that happened. On horseback, however, he was shouting and screaming to his devoted soldiers that he had been attacked. It so occurred that he had a rash. The rash itched from his excitement. He repeatedly scratched it till it bled. There was visible blood despite the faint streak. He was believed by his devoted troops. Assassins not only attacked him, but they also took blood from him. The soldiers came together. They said that he had been hurt. All the way to Paris, the rumor, the fabrication, the deception, the amazing propaganda coup spread. Napoleon became a hero right away. The coup succeeded. The story is too close to what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was shot or nicked by plexiglass, surviving a real assassination attempt while taking use of the situation to gather as much blood as he could, whether it was fake or real. One of his Rasputins, Steve Bannon, is known to be a voracious history reader and an even more voracious fabrication. The felon is the best American propagandist since Joe McCarthy, as we all know. Although we are aware that we don’t know all there is to know about that day in Butler, we do know enough to understand that it was a single shard of reality. It was theatrical for the remainder. Our 18 Brumaire made up the remainder.
P.T.
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However, Bonaparte’s imperious attitude and his uncontrollably romantic imagination were not fully appreciated by the men of Brumaire.
J.H. Stewart and James Friguglietti, translators of Georges Lefebvre’s The French Revolution, vol. 2: From 1793 to 1799 (Columbia 1964).
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