“Frenchmen, do not take fright at the effervescence of this first age of liberty. It is like a strong new wine that ferments until purged of all its froth… I foresee that enviable time when all masks shall fall away, when there remain only those men worthy of the values that reign in our republic. But this moment is necessary for the destruction of those who have merely aped patriotism and borrowed its clothes. At last we shall distinguish false revolutionaries from the true!”