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  1. Simon Schama _ Citizens: A Chronicle of the

    . . .for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.
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  2. Simon Schama _ Citizens: A Chronicle of the

    a young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that "our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to become one of those cadavers.
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  3. Simon Schama _ Citizens: A Chronicle of the

    Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.
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