Most of the quotations concerning the French Revolution given in this article come from the book “ Historically correct ” by Jean Sévillia.

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Solzhenitsyn: “Men not being endowed with the same capacities, if they are free, they will not be equal, and if they are equal, it is because they are not free. »

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There is a revolutionary idea of ​​permanent invention that still persists today. It is an idea which is also contained in the idea of ​​Progress. That everything remains to be invented. René Guénon said: “There are no new ideas on earth. “

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Robespierre: “If Louis can be the subject of a trial, he can always be absolved; he may be innocent: what am I saying? He is presumed to be so until he is judged; but if Louis can be presumed innocent, what becomes of the Revolution? »

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Westermann at the Convention: “There is no more Vendée: it is dead under our free sword. I crushed the children under the feet of our horses, massacred the women who will no longer give birth to brigands. I don't have a prisoner to blame me for. I wiped it all out. »

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Carrier (after drowning 10,000 innocent people in the Loire): “We will make France a cemetery, rather than not regenerating it in our own way. »

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“The Vendée must be annihilated because it dared to doubt the benefits of freedom. »

Baudot (commissioner of the Convention to the armies of the Rhine and Moselle) calls for "guillotine regeneration" for Jews who "put greed in the place of man, of the fatherland, and their ridiculous superstitions in the place of Reason ".

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10 months of Robespierre's dictatorship: 500,000 people will have been imprisoned, 300,000 under house arrest, 16,594 guillotined.

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The words republic and democracy promulgated during the French Revolution (and therefore today) are to Roman and Greek definitions what firefighter paintings are to classical art.

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Cabanis (philosopher who helped Bonaparte to take power) said of the constitution of December 15, 1799: “The ignorant class will no longer exert its influence either on legislation or on the government; everything is done for the people and in the name of the people, nothing is done by them and under their thoughtless dictation. »

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Balance sheet of the victims of the Terror:

• 31% workers or craftsmen
• 28% farmers
• 20% merchants or spectators
• 9% noble
• 7% clergy

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François Furet: “The guillotine feeds on its moral prediction. »

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Laplanche (representative of the Convention): “It is on the principle of humanity that I purge the earth of the freedom of these monsters. »

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Alain Gérard (around “By principle of humanity…”): “The desire to free oneself from all experience, from all tradition, condemns the revolution to drift and, in the long term, to total violence. »

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Jean Sévillia: “The law of suspects has no precedent in modern history. »

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“Was the blood so pure? (Barnave. July 1789 after the murders of the first innocents). The real people must be exchanged for an ideal people: among the population, the bad ones will disappear, the good ones will remain. »

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Rousseau in Social Contract: “Any malefactor attacking social law becomes rebellious and a traitor to the country through his crimes. The preservation of the state is incompatible with his. One of the two must perish. »