Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Quotes

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

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