Palloy's products, which he called "relics of freedom", celebrated the national unity that the events of July 1789 had generated across all classes of French citizenry, and included a very wide range of items.
A series of "unity events" are being held outside rail and tube stations in London to show support for people affected by the increase in racist and xenophobic abuse since the EU referendum.
These Notting Hill escapees are exactly what's wrong with carnival and the spirit of unity that the event is attempting to foster.
But, as cannot be stressed enough, an apocalyptic turn of events for the unity of the family.
"We believe 'raves' offer positive benefits to society, encouraging creativity, providing jobs to local artists and cultivating the values of empathy, peace and unity amongst event attendees who then carry those values back into our local communities.
Sarotte describes a host of competing conceptions of post-cold-war Europe that flourished, mutated and perished in the maelstrom of events that led up to German unity.
And despite the spirit of unity the event on Saturday tried to promote and which charter leaders said they appreciated, there is an unchanging reality.
Deriving from Italy, this doctrine of the unities demanded that there be unity of time (strictly, the play's events were to be limited to "the period between sunrise and sunset"), of place (the entire action was to take place in the one locus), and of action (subplots and the dramatic treatment of more than one situation were to be avoided).
Still, church unity for the events is far from absolute.
More generally they move together in the same direction across the set of events, or have no negative comovements or a Kendall's tau of unity.
Indeed, as Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it, there is every reason to hope that the unity born of the events of September 11th will rally the international community to the defense of the most basic of human rights - the right of all people to live in peace and security.
