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Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin was a French politician, a champion of the working classes who was forced into exile after the failure of the French Revolution of 1848. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. February 1807 – 31. December 1874
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Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Quotes

“Hey! I'm their leader, I've got to follow them!”

Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Eh! je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre!
Among the Paris mob at the barricades during the French Revolution of 1848.
Quoted by Eugène de Mirecourt in Histoire Contemporaine, No. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=iA-5arv1bBYC&q=%22Eh+je+suis+leur+chef+il+fallait+bien+les+suivre%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1857).
The attribution to Ledru-Rollin is uncertain; see Leadership#L.

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