“The knowledge of feudal practices is the reason why I was perhaps the most formidable scourge of feudalism.”

La connaissance des pratiques féodales « est la raison pour laquelle je fus peut-être le plus redoutable fléau de la féodalité. »
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 13, 27082 2892-7]
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La connaissance des pratiques féodales « est la raison pour laquelle je fus peut-être le plus redoutable fléau de la féodalité. »

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French political agitator and journalist of the French Revo… 1760–1797

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