“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.” SexRevolutionWriterFrenchSemicolon Author:Camille Desmoulins
“Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.” MenGovernmentNamesConstitutionDemocraticWorthySuitsFranceDemocratic Government Author:Camille Desmoulins
“I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.” AgeThreeJesusAgingThirtyRebellious Author:Camille Desmoulins
“What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.” MeanRevolutionCitizensActivePhrasesFrench RevolutionBastille Author:Camille Desmoulins
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.” LittlesDiesBeliefRevolutionRepublicanFranceInkProsperousFrench RevolutionGuillotine Author:Camille Desmoulins
“Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.” RevolutionRevolutionaryRebelliousClemency Author:Camille Desmoulins
