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...From the fictional character, Claude Mounier from Robert Margerit's La Revolution. The character is speaking to Danton early in 1794; I think he's right:
"Non, je ne t’accuse pas, je constate seulement, de plus en plus, ce que j’ai toujours soupçonné : tu n’es pas un vrai républicain. Tu es, au fond, comme Mirabeau, comme ton ennemi La Fayette, comme Barnave, Lameth, comme Lanjuinais, comme ton ami Dumouriez. Tu as consenti à la république parce que tu n’as pu faire autrement, quand il ne t’est resté aucun espoir orléaniste. Tu as beau siégé sur la Montagne, tu es un homme du Marais. Si nous te laissions aller ton train, nous aurions bientôt un régime aristocratique sous l’étiquette républicaine, un régime ou l’argent, à coup sur, serait roi, avec l’intrigue pour reine et l’agiotage comme Premier ministre."
My (rough) translation:
"No, I’m not accusing you; I just observe more and more what I’ve always suspected: you are not a true republican. You are, at heart, like Mirabeau, like your enemy La Fayette, like Barnave, Lameth, like Lanjuinais, like your friend Dumouriez. You consented to the republic because you could not do otherwise, when no Orléaniste hope remained to you. Though you have sat with the Montagne you are a man of the Marais. If we let you follow your course, we would soon have an aristocratic regime with republican manners, a regime where money assuredly would be king, with intrigue for queen and peculation as Prime Minister."
From what I've read of it, I think I like this series. The character who speaks the above lines, and probably also the author, seem to like Maxime except for one thing: they reproach him for the FdlES.....And despite Margerit's brilliant insights into just about everything, I think he's missed the point here and isn't looking at it in context.
...I could go on, explain myself better, but it's getting late and I still have reading to do. I'll try to post with some art soon.
"Non, je ne t’accuse pas, je constate seulement, de plus en plus, ce que j’ai toujours soupçonné : tu n’es pas un vrai républicain. Tu es, au fond, comme Mirabeau, comme ton ennemi La Fayette, comme Barnave, Lameth, comme Lanjuinais, comme ton ami Dumouriez. Tu as consenti à la république parce que tu n’as pu faire autrement, quand il ne t’est resté aucun espoir orléaniste. Tu as beau siégé sur la Montagne, tu es un homme du Marais. Si nous te laissions aller ton train, nous aurions bientôt un régime aristocratique sous l’étiquette républicaine, un régime ou l’argent, à coup sur, serait roi, avec l’intrigue pour reine et l’agiotage comme Premier ministre."
My (rough) translation:
"No, I’m not accusing you; I just observe more and more what I’ve always suspected: you are not a true republican. You are, at heart, like Mirabeau, like your enemy La Fayette, like Barnave, Lameth, like Lanjuinais, like your friend Dumouriez. You consented to the republic because you could not do otherwise, when no Orléaniste hope remained to you. Though you have sat with the Montagne you are a man of the Marais. If we let you follow your course, we would soon have an aristocratic regime with republican manners, a regime where money assuredly would be king, with intrigue for queen and peculation as Prime Minister."
From what I've read of it, I think I like this series. The character who speaks the above lines, and probably also the author, seem to like Maxime except for one thing: they reproach him for the FdlES.....And despite Margerit's brilliant insights into just about everything, I think he's missed the point here and isn't looking at it in context.
...I could go on, explain myself better, but it's getting late and I still have reading to do. I'll try to post with some art soon.