People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.