Monthly Quote Challenge: Robespierre
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Anyway, this month's quote challenge focuses on Robespierre. More specifically, it contains quotes of his from 1790 - 1794, which you must put in chronological order.
You will have until May 30th to respond to this post with your guesses. Comments will be screened until that time. The winner will be the first to get the greatest number of answers correct and will also be in charge of the quote challenge for next month (and I'll run the monthly discussion point by that person first just to be sure they don't have any concerns about the feasibility of finding quotes related to it).
The only real rule, and this is a BIG rule, is no Googling. Googling would...well, it would make the whole thing fairly pointless. You are, however, able to scour any printed sources at your disposal for the quotes, as it involves a much larger amount of blood, sweat, and tears than just copying and pasting every quote into Google. :P
Annnnd, here we go! QUOTES
1. “La mort est le commencement de l'immortalité.” (Death is the beginning of immortality.)
2. “La République française est invincible comme la raison; elle est immortelle comme la vérité. Quand la liberté a fait une conquête telle que la France, nulle puissance humaine ne peut l'en chasser.” (The French Republic is invincible like reason; she is immortal like truth. When liberty was a victory, as in France, no human power can expel it.)
3. “La royauté est anéantie, la noblesse et le clergé ont disparu, le règne de l'égalité commence.” (Royalty is destroyed, the nobility and the clergy have disappeared, the reign of equality is beginning.)
4. “Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?” (Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?)
5. “Je ne suis point le défenseur du peuple ; jamais je n'ai prétendu à ce titre fastueux ; je suis du peuple.” (I am not the defender of the people; I never claimed this glorious title. I am of the people.)
6. “Malheur à nous, si nous n'avons pas la force d'être tout à fait libres, une demi-liberté nous ramène nécessairement au despotisme.” (Woe to us if we do not have the strength to be entirely free, a demi-liberty necessarily brings us to despotism.)
7. “Si le ressort du gouvernement populaire dans la paix est la vertu, le ressort du gouvernement populaire en révolution est à la fois la vertu et la terreur : la vertu, sans laquelle la terreur est funeste ; la terreur, sans laquelle la vertu est impuissante. La terreur n'est autre chose que la justice prompte, sévère, inflexible ; elle est donc une émanation de la vertu” (If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.)
8. “Notre révolution m'a fait sentir tout le sens de l'axiome qui dit que l'histoire est un roman ; et je suis convaincu que la fortune et l'intrigue ont fait plus de héros, que le génie et la vertu.” (Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.)
9. “Personne n'aime les missionnaires armés; et le premier conseil que donnent la nature et la prudence, c'est de les repousser comme des ennemis.” (No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.)
10. “Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.” (It is with regret that I pronounce this fatal truth…but Louis must die that the country may live.)
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
January 2nd, 1792 (this is actually the answer to *two* of them)
April 7th, 1790
February 5th, 1794
July 26th, 1794
November 17th, 1793
December 3rd, 1792
November 5th, 1792
December 21st, 1792
September 30th, 1792
(Oh dear, I didn't notice how 1792-heavy this is until now. -_-; *facepalm*)
Anyway, this month's quote challenge focuses on Robespierre. More specifically, it contains quotes of his from 1790 - 1794, which you must put in chronological order.
You will have until May 30th to respond to this post with your guesses. Comments will be screened until that time. The winner will be the first to get the greatest number of answers correct and will also be in charge of the quote challenge for next month (and I'll run the monthly discussion point by that person first just to be sure they don't have any concerns about the feasibility of finding quotes related to it).
The only real rule, and this is a BIG rule, is no Googling. Googling would...well, it would make the whole thing fairly pointless. You are, however, able to scour any printed sources at your disposal for the quotes, as it involves a much larger amount of blood, sweat, and tears than just copying and pasting every quote into Google. :P
Annnnd, here we go! QUOTES
1. “La mort est le commencement de l'immortalité.” (Death is the beginning of immortality.)
2. “La République française est invincible comme la raison; elle est immortelle comme la vérité. Quand la liberté a fait une conquête telle que la France, nulle puissance humaine ne peut l'en chasser.” (The French Republic is invincible like reason; she is immortal like truth. When liberty was a victory, as in France, no human power can expel it.)
3. “La royauté est anéantie, la noblesse et le clergé ont disparu, le règne de l'égalité commence.” (Royalty is destroyed, the nobility and the clergy have disappeared, the reign of equality is beginning.)
4. “Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?” (Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?)
5. “Je ne suis point le défenseur du peuple ; jamais je n'ai prétendu à ce titre fastueux ; je suis du peuple.” (I am not the defender of the people; I never claimed this glorious title. I am of the people.)
6. “Malheur à nous, si nous n'avons pas la force d'être tout à fait libres, une demi-liberté nous ramène nécessairement au despotisme.” (Woe to us if we do not have the strength to be entirely free, a demi-liberty necessarily brings us to despotism.)
7. “Si le ressort du gouvernement populaire dans la paix est la vertu, le ressort du gouvernement populaire en révolution est à la fois la vertu et la terreur : la vertu, sans laquelle la terreur est funeste ; la terreur, sans laquelle la vertu est impuissante. La terreur n'est autre chose que la justice prompte, sévère, inflexible ; elle est donc une émanation de la vertu” (If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.)
8. “Notre révolution m'a fait sentir tout le sens de l'axiome qui dit que l'histoire est un roman ; et je suis convaincu que la fortune et l'intrigue ont fait plus de héros, que le génie et la vertu.” (Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.)
9. “Personne n'aime les missionnaires armés; et le premier conseil que donnent la nature et la prudence, c'est de les repousser comme des ennemis.” (No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.)
10. “Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.” (It is with regret that I pronounce this fatal truth…but Louis must die that the country may live.)
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
January 2nd, 1792 (this is actually the answer to *two* of them)
April 7th, 1790
February 5th, 1794
July 26th, 1794
November 17th, 1793
December 3rd, 1792
November 5th, 1792
December 21st, 1792
September 30th, 1792
(Oh dear, I didn't notice how 1792-heavy this is until now. -_-; *facepalm*)
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