And thanks to James Ishmael Ford for posting this clip: one of my favorite film moments in one of my all time favorite movies ever. Vive la France indeed!
The French Revolution had some small impact of the emerging Unitarian movement in the United States. That famous "Unitarian by Myself"-- Thomas Jefferson -- was very closely tied ideologically to the French Republicans in the minds of many, while many expatriate French aristocrats somehow found their way to the South Shore of Boston, where they were often taken under the wing of the soon-to-be Unitarian congregations there. Don't ask me why, or how significant this really was. Just something I stumbled over in the course of my research
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