Dancing in the Streets! Victorious French Left Reclaims The Bastille!

[Zorra]

(Reuters) - Giddy revellers thronged Paris's Bastille square on Sunday as Socialist Francois Hollande swept to a presidential election victory, erupting into cheers and rejoicing not seen since the party's only other elected president won power 31 years ago.

Tens of thousands of Hollande supporters gave a huge cry of joy as a giant screen showed him as victor, echoing the spontaneous street party in the same historic venue that followed Francois Mitterrand's 1981 election.

The crowd, many too young to remember Mitterrand's triumph, spilled onto the steps of the Bastille Opera House - a modernist legacy of the Mitterrand era - clutching flags emblazoned with the Socialist logo of a clenched fist around a rose.

Some activists brandishing Communist Party flags and pink and purple balloons clambered up the base of a column erected on the site of the Bastille prison stormed during the 1789 French revolution. The monument commemorates another revolt, in 1830, which finally toppled the restored Bourbon monarchy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/06/us-france-elections-mood-idUSBRE8450C420120506

WOO-HOO!

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We are the 99%!


Congratulations, People of France!

Chin chin!

[RagAss]

1. It's a start.

[TBF]

2. Solidarity workers of France -

you rock!

[ChazInAz]

3. Bravo.

Bravo to America's oldest and truest ally! Vive la France!

[felix_numinous]

4. I will be toasting this later

along with all you good people fighting the good fight!!!! Woohooo!!

[tralala]

5. Meh

[DocMac]

7. Won't you share your support??

[Warren Stupidity]

16. Care to elaborate?

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

[RB TexLa]

8. Be careful, there is plently of dancing from Le Pen today too.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. And a special message to Angela Merkel, Grover Norquist and Jamie Dimon

(Raises right hand and extends middle finger)

[liberaltrucker]

12. You forgot David Cameron and Stephen Harper

Understandable, considering the number of RW assholes.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. I also forget the Koch brothers

. . . but space is limited.

[Zorra]

17. + another finger. nt

[liberalhistorian]

10. An observation from Alexis De Tocqueville on

the French Revolution:

"Never was any such event so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen."

The more things change, the more they stay the same!!

[eridani]

11. Reminds me of November 2008 here

What is important is the followup. Wishing Hollande luck in overcoming many, many obstacles.

[socialist_n_TN]

13. Well that's the thing about Hollande and the French Socialist Party.........

It ain't really THAT left. They're more SINOs than anything, BUT because they CLAIM to be socialist they CAN be influenced by the groups that are MORE left wing than they are. Here's hoping that happens.

[Kath1]

14. Congratulations, People Of France!

Well done!