Formerly, When A King Died At Versailles The Reign Of His Successor Was Immediately Announced By The Cry: "the King Is Dead, Long Live The King", In Order To Make It Understood That Despotism Is Immortal! Now An Entire People, Moved By A Sublime Instinct, Cried: Long Live The Republic! To Teach The Universe That Tyranny Died With The Tyrant.

-Maximilien Robespierre

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Formerly, When A King Died At Versailles

Maximilien Robespierre

Formerly, When A King Died At Versailles The Reign Of His Successor Was Immediately Announced By The Cry: "the King Is Dead, Long Live The King", In Order To Make It Understood That Despotism Is Immortal! Now An Entire People, Moved By A Sublime Instinct, Cried: Long Live The Republic! To Teach The Universe That Tyranny Died With The Tyrant.

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Tyrants

The Most Extravagant Idea That Can Be Born In The Head Of A Political Thinker Is To Believe That It Suffices For People To Enter, Weapons In Hand, Among A Foreign People And Expect To Have Its Laws And Constitution Embraced. No One Loves Armed Missionaries; The First Lesson Of Nature And Prudence Is To Repulse Them As Enemies.

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