“There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.”

— François Mitterrand, book Le Coup d'État permanent

Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part II, ch. 1

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