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“Liberty depends on each…power being kept seperate”
Montesquieu, 1748
“Man is born free and yet everywhere he is in fetters”
Rousseau 1762
[The American Revolution] “laid the foundations for another in France”
Arthur Young 1788
“…provided a framework within which it could take place”
Sally Waller
“…enjoy such a liberty as would fit”
Comte de Segur, 1781
“…undermined the ideological foundations”
Albert Soboul, 1965
“the power to make laws belongs only to me”
Louis XVI, 1774
“inherited a power too congested for absolute monarchy”
Francois Furet, 1981
“incapable to rule effectively”
L’Abbe de Veri, 1780
“No national bankruptcy. No increase of taxes. No new loans”
Turgot, 1774
“his [Necker’s] opulence as a banker”
William Doyle
“a carefully designed publicity measure”
Sally Waller
“the notables were the first revolutionaries”
Simon Schama
“Paris Parlement is… the echo of the public”
Marsherbes, 1787
“it is legal because I will it”
Louis XVI, 1787
“…we need an Estates-General or the equivalent”
Abbe Morellet
“so recently national heroes now… treated with hostility”
William Doyle
“breakdown of royal authority”
Simon Schama
“urban workers spent 30-50% of their income on bread”
Michael Adcock
“…to levels that wage earners on 15 sous a day could afford”
Réveillon, 1789
“…princes have been hoarding grain to… overthrow M. Necker”
Bookseller Hardy, 1789
“common law and common representation… constitute one nation”
Sieyes
“What does it demand? To be something”
Abbe Sieyes, 1789
“…it will form a National Assembly”
Sieyes, 1789
“…the Third Estate would wreck everything – and we were right”
Comtesse d’Adhemar
“…conceptualised the idea of a nation”
Michael Adcock
“…gentlemen of the Commons invite the gentlemen of the clergy… to meet in their hall”
Gui-Jean-Baptiste
“the assembled nation cannot be given orders”
Bailley
“…the deputies were rapidly becoming more radical”
Dylan Rees
“…we will only go if we are driven out by bayonets”
Mirabeau
“[the Society of Thirty] …wanted to replace dynastic with national patriotism”
Simon Schama
“…provoked it [3rdE] into exploding the institution altogether”
Simon Schama
“preparations for war are obvious”
Mirabeau
“I would rather die than submit to servitude”
Camille Desmoulins
“Paris was lost to the monarchy”
Simon Schama
“it is a revolt” “no sire, it is a revolution”
Louis XVI and Duc de Liancourt