Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Redirected from Vergniaud)
Jump to: navigation, search

"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.

English:

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."

--Vergniaud cited in Histoire de la révolution française (1824) by F.A.M. Mignet

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (31 May 1753 – 31 October 1793) was a French lawyer and statesman, a figure of the French Revolution. A deputy to the Assembly from Bordeaux, Vergniaud was an eloquent orator. He was a supporter of Jacques Pierre Brissot and the Girondist faction.

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools