The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.

  • paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.

Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title

    • Vinny_93@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      It kind of reads like they’re implying that the US are the founders of democracy and the ones that perfected it but the French are trying to get on their level.

      • vatlark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        No, more like the US’s revolution likely wouldn’t have succeeded if it wasn’t for the French support.

        France’s revolution attempted for a democracy but that got twisted and they got Emperor Napoleon, so then they had to fight again.

        Edit: And today the US and France are again fighting similar political battles so it feels like the strong support from a French person has a long history.