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Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

Maximilien Robespierre on history

Lettres à ses commettants, 1ère série, n°10, (21 December 1792)

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