Some other nice tale: Thanks to our Baroque mini-Versailles (in Germany near the French-German border) and a French teacher at school, we learnt for two years *everything* about the French Revolution, we read every important source text from that time. And thanks to the castle we could really imagine all these stories.
After 1945, we had a real guillotine with a real French executioner in the castle courtyard, used for the trials conducted by the French military administration against