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French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to intervene militarily in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. In a statement published on Monday, the agency’s press department suggested that he desperately wants to leave his mark on history.  

 ”Having failed as a politician and despaired of ever pulling the country out of the long social and economic crisis, he does not give up the hope to go down in history as a military leader,” the SVR claimed, adding that Macron “dreams of a military intervention in Ukraine” and is “known for fantasizing about Napoleon’s ‘laurels’.” 

 According to the SVR, the French General Staff has reportedly already been instructed to form a contingent of up to 2,000 troops “for deployment in Ukraine.” The core of this force is expected to be made up of troops from the French Foreign Legion, mainly recruited from Latin American countries. 

The SVR stated that Legion personnel are already deployed in regions of Poland bordering Ukraine, where they are undergoing “intensive joint combat training” and receiving weapons and equipment. Their transfer to central Ukraine has reportedly been scheduled in the near future.

The agency also said that France has already begun preparing for casualties, with “hundreds of additional hospital beds” reportedly being created to accommodate wounded soldiers, while French medics are said to be receiving field training to handle combat injuries. 

Paris intends to describe the deployment as limited to instructors for the Ukrainian army in the event it becomes public, the SVR stated.

The intelligence service went on to compare Macron’s ambitions to those of historical figures who fought Russia in the past, such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Swedish King Charles XII. 

It added that while the French leader dreams of mirroring those leaders’ accomplishments, he appears to have forgotten that their campaigns ended in defeat. 

“History teaches nothing, it only punishes for lessons not learnt,” the SVR statement concluded, citing Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky. 

https://www.rt.com/russia/627052-macron-ukraine-intervention-dream-svr/

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

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When Splendor Defined a Nation

For generations, the Crown Jewels stood as a dazzling reflection of France’s power, artistry, and grandeur. Among them, the coronation crown of Empress Eugénie, crafted in 1855 for the World’s Fair, embodied the ambition and confidence of the Second Empire. Designed by jeweler Alexandre-Gabriel Lemonnier, it fused the symbols of Rome, Egypt, and Christianity — a deliberate statement of imperial legitimacy and divine order. The piece shimmered with 56 emeralds and more than 1,300 diamonds.

“Each gem carried a story — of empire, faith, and the belief that beauty could embody power,” said a senior curator at the Louvre.

The recovery of Eugénie’s crown, found shattered beneath the museum windows, feels less like a rescue and more like a metaphor — the survival of beauty, but fractured and incomplete.

Jewels of Memory and Power

Also lost were several personal treasures of Empress Eugénie: a diamond-and-pearl tiara crafted for her 1853 wedding to Napoleon III, a lavish corsage bow sparkling with 2,438 diamonds, and a reliquary brooch concealing a space for sacred relics. These ornaments were not mere decoration; they were statements of continuity, linking the Napoleonic dynasty to France’s deep Catholic and aristocratic traditions.

Among the stolen jewels were also those once belonging to Marie-Louise of Austria, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife. Her emerald necklace and earrings, gifts from the emperor himself, embodied the alliance between France and Austria that momentarily reshaped Europe. Crafted by master jeweler Marie-Étienne Nitot, they represented the political glamour of the early nineteenth century.

Echoes from Forgotten Thrones

Another blow to French heritage came with the disappearance of the sapphire parure of Queen Marie-Amélie, wife of King Louis-Philippe I. Its tiara, earrings, and necklace — hallmarks of early Empire design — had passed down through generations of the House of Orléans before reaching the Louvre. These were not merely jewels but artifacts of national memory, silent witnesses to the end of monarchy and the rise of the republic.

“We have lost not only gemstones, but centuries of meaning,” remarked a spokesperson for France’s Ministry of Culture. “Their value cannot be measured in money, only in memory.”The Unbearable Weight of Absence

The Louvre’s Crown Jewels were more than objects of beauty; they were France’s dialogue with its own history. From royal coronations to imperial celebrations, they bore witness to revolutions, restorations, and the contradictions of a nation forever balancing grandeur with fragility. Their disappearance leaves behind not just empty display cases, but a silence that speaks to the vulnerability of heritage itself.

As investigators continue to trace the jewels’ fate, the deeper loss remains intangible — the fading of France’s reflection in the mirror of its own past.

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.