What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
Camille DesmoulinsPopular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
Camille DesmoulinsI shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
Camille Desmoulins