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Gunpowder, guillotines and guest houses: how the French Revolution came to Franschhoek

Each July, a little valley on the southern tip of Africa dresses up in tricolour to commemorate a French prison riot that it has no direct connection to. Dominique Olivier explains how a day that started with gunpowder and ended with a beheading became an excuse to drink excellent wine in Franschhoek.
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