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It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live.
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Original French: Je prononce ? regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
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Speech to the National Convention on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)

 

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