[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
FRENCH: Sous les pavés, la plage!... ‡
FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” ‡‡
FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie” ‡‡‡
FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité” ‡‡‡‡
GERMAN: “Arbeit macht frei.” ‡‡‡‡‡
‡) “Under the paving stones, [we’ll find] the beach...”
An archæologic & anarchic rallying cry as Parisian students & workers tore out the street’s paving stones in May of 1968... & an echo, perhaps, an aeternal return of the Paris Commune of 1870—1871, & also the Paris Revoluntionary Commune of 1789—1795...
‡‡) “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” — French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;
‡‡‡) “Work, Family, Fatherland” — Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;
‡‡‡‡) “Forced labor in perpetuity” — i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;
‡‡‡‡‡) “Work shall make you free.” — inscribed above the gates of Nazi death camp at Auschwitz
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