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“What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.”

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Camille Desmoulins

Camille Desmoulins was a French journalist, orator, and revolutionary, known for his pivotal role in the French Revolution. He was a leading figure in the Jacobin movement and played a crucial part in the events that led to the Reign of Terror. more

“Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.”

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Author:Francois Furet

“[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.”

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Author:Georges Couthon

“We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.”

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Author:Jacques Pierre Brissot

“The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!”

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Author:Marie Antoinette

“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.”

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Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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