“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”

— Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)

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French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

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