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)

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

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