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“The popular Revolution was the surface of a volcano of foreign conspiracies. The Constituent Assembly, a senate by day, was by night a collection of factions which prepared the policy and artifices of the morrow. Affairs had a double intention; one ostensibly and gracefully coloured, the other secret, leading to hidden results contrary to the interests of the people. They made war on the nobility, the guilty friend of the Bourbons, in order to pave the way to the throne for Orleans. One sees at each step the efforts of this party to ruin the Court, its enemy, and to preserve royalty, but the loss of one entailed the other; no royalty can exist without a patriciate.”
― Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Œuvres complètes