To act as she acts, was to drive the king, without redemption, to treason or the scaffold.

An absolute party is the only safe party in great crises.

The tact consists in knowing when to have recourse to extreme measures at the critical minute.

We say it unhesitatingly--history will hereafter say as we do.

Then came a moment when the Constituent Assembly had the right to choose between the monarchy and the republic, and when she had to choose the republic.