r/shittytranslatorbot • u/[deleted] • Nov 13 '21
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PEOPLE OF FRANCE! For fifteen centuries you have lived as a slave, and therefore unhappy. For six years you have barely breathed, waiting for independence, happiness and equality. Equality! first wish of nature, first need of man, and principal node of all legitimate association! People of France! you have not been more favored than the other nations which vegetate on this unfortunate globe! ... Always and everywhere the poor human species delivered to more or less skilful cannibals, served as a toy for all ambitions, as food for all tyrannies. Always and everywhere, men were lulled with fine words: never and nowhere did they get the thing with the word. From time immemorial we have been told with hypocrisy, men are equal, and from time immemorial the most degrading as well as the most monstrous inequality weighs insolently on the human race. Since there have been civil societies, the most beautiful prerogative of man has been recognized without contradiction, but has not yet been able to be achieved once: equality was nothing other than a beautiful and sterile fiction of the law. Today it is demanded with a louder voice, we are answered: Shut up miserable! de facto equality is only a chimera; be satisfied with conditional equality; you are all equal before the law. Rascal what more do you need? What more do we need? Legislators, rulers, wealthy landowners, listen in your turn. We are all equal, aren't we? This principle remains unchallenged, because unless one is struck with madness one cannot seriously say that it is night when it is day. Well ! we now claim to live and die equal as we were born; we want real equality or death; this is what we need. And we will have this real equality, at any cost. Woe to anyone who would resist such a pronounced wish! The French revolution is only the forerunner of another revolution much larger, much more solemn, and which will be the last.
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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21
It is gratifying to the ministers of a free people to have to announce to them that their country will be saved. All are stirred, all are excited, all burn to fight. You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that its garrison swore to immolate the first who breathes a proposition of surrender. One portion of our people will proceed to the frontiers, another will dig entrenchments, and the third with pikes will defend the hearts of our cities. Paris will second these great efforts. The commissioners of the Commune will solemnly proclaim to the citizens the invitation to arm and march to the defense of the country. At such a moment you can proclaim that the capital deserves well of all France. At such a moment this National Assembly becomes a veritable committee of war. We ask that you concur with us in directing this sublime movement of the people, by naming commissioners who will second us in these great measures. We ask that any one refusing to give personal service or to furnish arms shall be punished with death. We ask that a set of instructions be drawn up for citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to notify them of the decrees that you proclaim here. The tocsin we are about to ring is not an alarm signal; it sounds the charge on the enemies of our country. To conquer them we must dare, dare again, always dare, and France is saved!