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The Law of 22 Prairial

COUTHON, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety: All of our ideas in the various segments of government were to be reformed. They were all simply prejudices created by treachery and the interests of despotism, or else a bizarre mix of deception and truth, the inevitable result of the compromises that deception had forced upon reason.

Many of these false or obscure notions survived the revolution itself because the enemies of liberty exhausted every possible scheme to perpetuate them.

The judicial order in particular offers us a striking example of this. It was as favorable to crime as...






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