Mirabeau death

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (9 March – 2 April ) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

Quotes

• Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force.
  • We are here by the will of the nation, and we shall not leave except we are driven out by force.
  • Édouard Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'histoire, 5th ed.

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  • Reply of Mirabeau to the Marquis de Dreux-Brézé, Grand Master of the Ceremonies, when sent by Louis XVI, on 23 June , to dissolve the National Assembly, according to the version given by the Marquis’ son, Scipion de Dreux-Brézé, in the French House of Peers on 9 March Source: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed.

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Attributed

• Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois.
  • A people's silence is a lesson to their kings.
  • Sermons de Messire J. B. Charles Marie de Beauvais, Evêque de Sene