The French Revolution and the Carmelites of Compiègne

[JimG]

“When Bastille Day comes around each summer on July 14, I just can’t bring myself to pop the cork on a bottle of Champagne-style California sparkling wine (the kind I can afford). The Fête Nationale commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 and its one year anniversary, Fête de la Fédération, when a new government, with Louis XVI as a constitutional monarch, seemed to indicate a peaceful resolution to the French Revolution. I can’t help thinking of all that came after that, including the Reign of Terror and the campaign to destroy Catholicism in France. If I’m going to toast the memory of anyone in the middle of July, it would be the Blessed Carmelites of Compiègne, the nuns guillotined on July 17, 1794.”

The French Revolution and the Carmelites of Compiègne| National Catholic Register

 

[jeannetherese]

Ignatius press offers the book, s ong of the Scaffold, by Gertrud von Le Fort, which explores the martyrdom of the Carmelites.
https://www.ignatius.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=462&Name=Gertrud+Von+Le+Fort
It’s an excellent, thought provoking, read.

 

[Victoria33]

There use to be a documentary on St. Louis de Montfort that touched on this. I say “use” to, because that documentary is now hard to find. Compiègne is way in Northern France if I am correct.