Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… That France, once illustrious among enslaved nations, may, by eclipsing the glory of all free countries that ever … to the oppressed, an ornament of the universe and that, by sealing the work with our blood, we may at least witness … as ‘Principles of Political Morality’, were spoken by the Jacobin, Maximilien Robespierre, in February 1794. I …