Translated from French
On Saturday, the French saw each other.
Their number. Their unity. Their face.
Not the one they’re shown every evening – those who burn cars, who smash things, who attack. The real one. Families, young people, children on shoulders, babies held up toward the popemobile. A human tide from the Étoile to the Concorde, and not a single shop window touched.
This country that’s said to be fractured, exhausted, lost – it was there. It counted itself. And it discovered itself immense.
The Concorde. The place where the Revolution cut off the king’s head. Today, Mass is said there. More than two centuries to come full circle – but the circle is complete.
They repeat 600,000 like a mantra. Does the number scare? No matter the number. The essential thing is that all these people saw each other.
I’m just recalling how it happened with us.
June 1979. John Paul II in Warsaw. The regime counts on indifference. It sees millions of Poles arrive. The pope says: “May your Spirit descend and renew the face of the earth. Of this earth.”
And every Pole discovers one very simple thing: I am not alone.
Communism didn’t hold by tanks. It held because each one believed they were alone in no longer believing in it. One year later, Solidarity. Ten years later, freedom.
A crowd that smashes, a power knows how to manage it – it even needs it. A crowd that prays, it doesn’t know how. Especially when it goes home knowing it is many.
That’s how we regained our freedom in Poland. That’s how we defeated communism. 
Is France living its Solidarity moment? An awakening? 
Is France living its Solidarity moment? An awakening? Translated from French
After 237 years of this failed experiment, it is time to undo the madness of the Anti-French Revolution.
Anti-French, yes. Because it waged war on everything that was France: its faith, its king, its provinces, its languages, its trades, its parishes. It called that progress.
The principle was simple: erase everything that stands between man and the State. The family, the local community, the Church, the guilds. Leaving only a lone individual, facing an unlimited power.
Since then, regimes have changed—empires, monarchies, five republics. The machine, however, never changes. Paris decides, the provinces obey. The State educates your children, takes what you earn, and tells you what to think.
And the Revolution did not stop at France. The Bolsheviks saw themselves as Jacobins. Lenin took the Terror as his model. Communism is the child of 1789—we Poles knew it up close.
We defeated the child. France still lives under the parent.
Undoing the Revolution is not about turning back time. It is not a Terror in reverse. It is about returning to the French what was taken from them: their communes, their schools, their money, their faith. Putting the State back in its place—under society, not above it.
In 1789, the French were told: the State will set you free.
237 years later, it is time to free ourselves from the State—and to become French again.
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