Pierre Michon Quotes
The Eleven Is Not A Painting Of History, It Is History. Perhaps What Michelet Saw At The End Of The Flore Pavilion Was History In Person, In Eleven Persons - In Terror, Because History Is Pure Terror. And That Terror Attracts Us Like A Magnet. Because We Are Men, Sir; And Because Men High And Low, Scholars And Beggars, Passionately Love History, That Is, The Terrors And The Massacres; They Hasten From Afar To Contemplate Them, The Terrors And The Massacres, Under The Pretext Of Deploring Them, Even Of Rectifying Them, So They Claim, The Good Creatures...
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