Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Pat…

- Francois Furet

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

- Francois Furet

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

- Francois Furet