“How could liberty ever have established itself amongst us? Apart from several tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes… But it is in the nation’s senate that the most grotesque parades have taken place.”

—  Jean-Paul Marat

L'Ami du peuple, no.672 (1792-07-14)

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politician and journalist during the French Revolution 1743–1793

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