“This egotism of non-degraded men, which finds a heavenly delight in the calmness of a pure conscience and in the ravishing spectacle of the public good, you feel it in this moment which burns in your souls; I feel it in mine.”

— Maximilien Robespierre

Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)

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French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

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