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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

" - Ibid., (Act
of Prairial 5, year II.) for engraving and coloring twenty thousand
impressions of the design for a civil uniform, and six thousand
impressions for the three designs for a military, judicial and
legislative uniform.
[115] An identical change took, strangely enough and as caused by some
hidden force, place in Denmark in the seventies. (SR.)
[116] This is now the case in the entire Western 'democratic' sphere,
in newspapers, schools, and on television. (SR.)
[117] Ibid, XXXI., 271. (Report by Robespierre, Pluviose 1, year II.)
"This sublime principle supposes a preference for public interests
over all private interests; from which it follows that the love of
country supposes again, or produces, all the virtues." "As the essence
of a republic or of democracy is equality, it follows that love of
country necessarily comprises a love of equality." "The soul of the
Republic is virtue, equality." - Lavalette, "Memoirs," I., 254.
(Narrated by Madame Lavalette.) She was compelled to attend public
festivals, and, every month, the patriotic processions. "I was rudely
treated by my associates, the low women of the quarter; the daughter
of an emigr?, of a marquis, or of an imprisoned mother, ought not to
be allowed the honor of their company; .


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