Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

further bloodied the nation of its bravest and best. E. E. Cummings, the American poet, used to
remark of Napoleon, "He chopped six inches off of the height of every Frenchman."
Ever since tile St. Bartholomew's Massacre, France ha fallen back from its once proud history.
This, of course, was a great comfort to its historic rival, England, who not only seized the
advantages offered by the French decline, but seems to have engineered quite a few of its
subsequent misfortunes.
France's birth rate declined, her command of the seas declined, and her rate of invention declined.
Most important, she never again won another war. Despite the great military successes of
Napoleon, France lost the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo; she was defeated by the Germans during
the Franco- Prussian War and the successive world wars, her foes being halted and turned back
only by the arrival of troops from America, many of them of Hueguenot descent.
If God may have visited the Reign of Terror upon the people of France as punishment for the
massacres of the Huguenots, it was also made inevitable by their absence. With the sober,
restraining influence of the Huguenot people removed from France, the way now lay open for
every possible excess of the demon-worshipping Canaanites. Sex orgies, financial scandals, and
foreign intrigues became every-day occurrences among the high officials of the black nobility,
while the kings of France, seeing no alternative to "going with the flow" let license reign. It was
not accidental that France was the only country in Europe to undergo a major revolution at this
time. It was the only country in Europe in which the central government had allowed itself to be
overcome by the desires of the worst elements in the nation.
Every type of heresy flourished in France. Idleness and tile pursuit of vice were foremost in the
minds of the people, While the economy was being paralysed by a plethora of lawsuits, some of
them litigated generation after generation, which created unrest throughout the nation. As in the
United States today, prejudice and bias dictated every decision in the courts, and this favouritism
became one of the principal causes contributing to the outbreak of the Revolution.
The rot was very high on the vine. The king's brother-in-law, the Duc d'Qrleans, was called
Philippe de Egalite because of his close identification with the new forces of "liberation." The
Duc had been persuaded by Mirabeau to amalgamate Hate the Blue Lodge with the Grand Orient
of France; at same time, Mirabeau and his mentor, Moses Mendelssohn, persuaded the Duc to
make some risky investments, in which, as they had planned, he lost his fortune. By 1780, owed
800,000 livres. He was forced to sign over his magnificent home, the Palais Royal, to Canaanite
lenders. They hired de Laclos to turn it into one of the world's most elaborate brothels. As his
aide, de Laclos brought in from Palermo the notorious "Count" Cagliostro, born Balsamo, who
had taken his godmother's name. He was a Grand Master of the Rosicrucian Knights of Malta,
which he had joined at the age of twenty-three. He now used the Palais Royal as a headquarters
for revolutionary propaganda, printing thousands of the most inflammatory pamphlets, with
which he flooded Paris. The downfall of the Duc d'Orleans had been carefully planned. Mirabeau
had been an habitue of the salon of Henrietta Herz in Vienna and Paris; here he had come under
the influence of Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of Freemasonry. He became the principal tool
of Mendelssohn and other conspirators, including the Rothschilds, in precipitating the events of
the French Revolution. At this same time, the government of England was falling into the hands
of Lord Shelburne, the notorious William Petty. The English Prime Minister, William Pitt, had
also been maneuvered into a position where he was overcome by onerous debts; Petty and his
closest associates paid Pitt's debts and, in return, dictated his subsequent policy decisions. Lord
Shelburne was the chief of the British Intelligence Service; as such, he masterminded the course
of the French Revolution from London. One of the most persistent legends has been the myth
of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a quixotic British aristocrat who risked his neck many times to snatch
French aristocrats from the guillotine. If such a person ever existed, he was greatly outnumbered
in France by the number of British agents of Lord Shelburne who were to be found there,
promoting the most atrocious acts of the Reign of Terror from behind the scenes, in order to
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