Jacques-Louis Ménétra Quotes

Jacques-Louis Ménétra was a French author, who started his career as glazier.

✵ 13. July 1738 – 13. May 1812

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Famous Jacques-Louis Ménétra Quotes

“When I am with old friends… We recount what we have seen what we have felt the good and the evil that the Revolution has done all the assaults the days the nights the punishments and the fate of our unfortunate friends who perished in the time of Terror when good men feared for their lives We are beginning to see the twilight of the times in which our families were happy.”

Jacques-Louis Ménétra

quoted in Warren Roberts (2000). Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary. p. 321.

“They flattered the ambitious and all the ills came gradually to a head. Murder drowning everything was allowed. Intriguers monopolised all the offices. Good men could only mutter for if they spoke they were lost. Hatred vengeance everything was permitted and nobody dared open his mouth…”

Jacques-Louis Ménétra

quoted in Warren Roberts (2000). Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary. p. 321: About the French Revolution.

“The French breathed blood. They were like cannibals.”

Jacques-Louis Ménétra

quoted in David Andress. The French Revolution and the People, 2006, p. 255-