Blessed State?

This question comes in from Paris and concerns older notions of French monarchy surrounding churches like St Nicholas de Chardonnay.

Fr dear Fr: In what sense can a State be deemed blessed - is it just because it features a monarchy, or is there something positive to say about all French style 1789 Revolutions?

Well. Christians have to live in various concepts of the institutes of the civil state, and it has long been the assertion these last few years on the part of some modern mystics that life in a monarchy is better than life in a republic - Young Sr Marie Olivier de Finistere of Brittany, healer and mystic, is one such example, having received visions from the christian messiah that France would not see peace in this new era until a monarchy is restored. Cheaper to begin with. In a republic, 500 senators and deputies have to be funded with salaries and secretaries and chauffeurs plus pensions, whereas in a monarchy this has to be found only for a small family. Also generally the tourists will turn out for a monarchy, any monarchy, and not for a prime minister or a bunch of senators, so the monarchy system is better funded as billions are brought into the country by the tourists keen to see the pomp of the blessed family. Also, less taxes have to be raised to fund a monarchy and its small family than to fund 500 senators plus their huge pensions. Uncle Dan at home in Northern Ireland, not Dan Wootton of GBNews, but my old uncle used to write to the newspapers advising that the number of MPs - or what are called TDs there - could be slimmed down easily from 729 to maybe 32, one for each county. Absurd the notion that so many are needed, especially in the age of the internet. Also the argument from the simplicity of leadership too. A simple family at the head of government is easier for ordinary people to relate to. It was only when the nobility in France abused their positions of trust and ran riotous parties to great excess that the inevitable happened and 1789 came round with such swiftie vengeance. The French model of revolution though at the end of the day was a very bloody one featuring lots and lots of class cleansing - 300,000 ordinary French peasants were killed in Brittany - and one which did not realise the values and the virtues of the housekeeping of Marie Antoinette, now soon to be rehabilitated and maybe vindicated, who knows maybe even canonised in the short time before monarchy - French style - is reasserted in Paris St Denis again? Mrs Thatcher, blessed be her long memory, once visited the Parisiens on Bastille Day in 1990 and said that no revolution is worth even one head, especially the head of a king, so no doubt in the mind of the woman who has done more for monarchy, technology, and Britain than many others. Christians too like the new pope concur that at a time of fractiousness and division and separation, with republican governments like Catalan propelling their populations into endless rounds of civil strife, states need unity more than they need self-assertion, self-determination, and an elusive and meaningless independence in a moderne trading environment. So whether it is alongside the legitimate choruses of democracy under Blue Labour or Pink Conservatism, the presence of a monarchy can be a sign of much blessedness, and certainly it is easier to live with one, than without. French christians across most of moderne Europe might agree with such sentiments. Republics are very expensive. A simple family with all of its ups and downs like any other family, is easier to relate to, and easier to fund.