Monday, April 29, 2013

Good old French politics!

Here is another of my discoveries in the Tuileries gardens (if you notice the trees in the background, you will see a certain similarities with yesterday's photo!): a monument to the glory of Pierre Waldeck Rousseau, a French Politician who was appointed Président du Conseil (the equivalent of a Prime Minister) of France in 1899. He was a "Républicain libéral" and he managed to form a government (at that time you needed to make a coalition to form a government  and to make it last... 3 years, which was some kind of a record then. But the real reason why he was granted the honor of a monument was that he introduced the right of association, giving way to trade unions. Update: look at what I found; a photo of the inauguration day!     

5 comments:

  1. So who OK'd the naked guys shaking hands? That is just weird, and it gives the "right of association" a whole new spin.

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  2. Lovely picture! Interesting historic photo, too, so it appears that it was taken the day they dedicated the statue? How cool is that?!

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  3. I was thinking more or less what Vivian was thinking. What does that say about us, I wonder. :~}

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  4. I love your photo, Eric, and the historical one is a real find.

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  5. Nice use of the wide-angle lens here Eric.

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