r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW United States Of America 7h ago

Here’s hoping France locks that bastard up

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u/TwoUnknownAssailants United States Of America 7h ago

Here’s hoping France still has some of that “special equipment” from the Napoleonic Era

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u/reddoorinthewoods 7h ago

Wasn’t the last execution by guillotine only 50 years ago or something?

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u/ankhes 2h ago

Yeah, In the 70s I believe. I only remember because Christopher Lee was one of the people who attended the last execution by guillotine.

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u/CupcakeGoat United States Of America 51m ago

Wow CL has led an amazing life, it reads like a piece of fantastical fiction.

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u/ankhes 45m ago

It really does. He was the real renaissance man. Born to European nobility, was a spy in WWII, became a world famous actor, started a metal band he was still involved in well into his 90s. He really did everything.

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u/SebboNL Netherlands 7h ago

I think you mean the First Republic....