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Le Coup d'État permanent

François Mitterrand
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“To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ‘’Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.”

François Mitterrand book Le Coup d'État permanent

[…] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part III

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“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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