We are here by the will of the nation, and we shall not leave except we are driven out by force.
Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force.
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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 1789, 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 1833. Source: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1805