« Revolutionary Liberty had been made a goddess; The guillotine was made a saint. In patriotic newspapers, in pamphlets, in the tribune, in the Jacobins, she was not called any other than Saint Guillotine. Charles Nodier »

« An interpretation as false as it is dangerous, because it feeds the confusion of minds, runs about the expression "unclean blood" in the Marseillaise to make this unclean blood that of the "revolutionaries", the "people" sacrificed for the good cause. The texts of the time categorically deny this sacrificial and a-historical vision. We must assume his past and avoid distorting it, to prevent dramatic drifts. Here are some quotes from the Parliamentary Archives, whose website is available at this address http://frda.stanford.edu/fr/ap . Spread widely and above all refuse this reading that runs on the Internet. ("Let unclean blood water our furrows" about a bad quarrel, Mediapart, January 10, 2016) »

« It should be remembered that the word "terrorist" was born at the end of 1794, after the 9th thermidor. It appears under the pen of MP Boisset on November 23, 1794. »