"Citoyens, il est à craindre que la révolution, comme Saturne, ne dévore successivement tous ses enfants et n’engendre enfin le despotisme avec les calamités qui l’accompagnent."
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Quoted by F.A.M. Mignet, Histoire de la révolution française (1824), ch. 7 [original French and English translation]
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Pierre Vergniaud
1753 – 1793
französischer Rechtsanwalt und Revolutionär
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