Saturne Quotes
More Saturne Quotes
Citoyens, il est à craindre que la révolution, comme Saturne, ne dévore successivement tous ses enfants et n’engendre enfin le despotisme avec les calamités qui l’accompagnent.
— Citizens, we have reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, will successively devour all its children, and finally produce despotism, with the calamities that accompany it.Quoted by F.A.M. Mignet, Histoire de la révolution française (1824), ch. 7 [original French and English translation]
