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Quotes from Le Coup d'État permanent — François Mitterrand

1916–1996 France

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There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.

Le Coup d'État permanent (1964)

To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ‘’Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.” […] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

Le Coup d'État permanent (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François Mitterrand (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.