Descendants of Louis XIV to the US: "Buy his statue damaged by demonstrations" • French in response: "Remember that the king lost more immediately"

While the harsh protests in the US following George Floyd's murder continue, a surprising and somewhat bizarre appeal to the US government in France over the statue of King Louis XVI, which sustained protests in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. 

Duke Louis Alphonse Bourbon, the head of the Bourbon House today and the King's descendants (whose heads are remembered as beheaded in guillotines), applied to the United States to seek to repair the statue whose hand was damaged during the protests. "I already thank the local authorities in the United States who are working to make this amendment," said the Duke. 

But many French and surfers from around the world found the Duke's appeal, while the U.S. protest at its peak, at best narrow-minded, if not stupid. "When an angry crowd gathers in the streets, the best idea is not to identify as a son of the Bourbon monarchy, don't you think so?" , Asked the surfer who identified himself as the playwright "William Shakespeare." 

Another French visitor wrote to the Duke: "I suggest you read your family history a bit before you come out when there are demonstrations." Another surfer wrote: "Dude, the hand is not the largest organ that was lowered to Louis XVI." One last user concluded: "Reading this reality is probably not your family's best ability."