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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
The energy needed to rebuild a kingdom would strangle art and culture and innovation.
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Originally Posted by Rupert
Or would cause people to celebrate what they had all the harder.
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Paris in the 20s was a hotbed of art and culture. That wasn't entirely because of the war, but it certainly didn't stop it. Didn't hurt that the temperance movement in France was quite different (ban absinthe, it's hurting our wineries).