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February 20, 2007
The Corsican Che Guevara
This was interesting: it meant that the power of the Paoli legend is able, two centuries after his death, to unite the fragmented political factions of contemporary Corsica.
It's still a turbulent island - sometimes described as having Europe's "third independence war" - after those of northern Ireland and the Spanish Basque country.
Bombs go off constantly, and although the all-important tourist industry is rarely affected, nothing can paper over the continuing unrest.
For, although Paoli successfully ejected the Genoese, his pioneering democracy was soon destroyed - by France.
Once independent, Corsica is now a poor and often despised French province. And France's arrogant rule resulted, in the 1970s, in the rebirth of armed resistance.
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Posted by thdyck on February 20, 2007
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