Quote#Children
The enemy is at the gates of the city. The day is perhaps not far off…
Quote byGeorges Clemenceau · 1841–1929
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poster (23 September 1870) during the Franco-Prussian War, quoted in David Robin Watson, Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1974), p. 38.
English (original)
The enemy is at the gates of the city. The day is perhaps not far off when our breasts will be the last defence for our country. We are the children of the Revolution. Let us take inspiration from our fathers of 1792, and, like them, we will conquer.
— Georges Clemenceau
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