Anacharsis Cloots Quotes
There will be neither barrier nor walls, neither official nor guard, there will be no more desert and the entire world will become a garden.
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots. He wrote of the French Revolution as the first step that would trigger a world-wide revolution producing a “Universal Republic” which would be a political paradise. He was very active helping the revolutionists in the French Revolution. He have them money and used his writing and political skills to assist in many ways. Ironically, he got caught up in the paranoid insanity into which the French Revolution evolved, and he was accused by Maximilien Robespierre and guillotined at the age of 39.
Anacharsis Cloots, 1755–1794, Prussian Nobleman & Political Philosopher
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Many of the French Revolutionists viewed the French Revolution as only the first step in a European revolution where all monarchies in Europe would be overthrown and popular rule installed throughout the continent. See Warville {585774} for an example. This obviously made the crowned heads of Europe and their governments very nervous. Other French Revolutionaries like Robespierre, however, wanted to assure the rest of Europe that the revolution was only a French affair so that they should not send troops to overthrow the French Revolution.
She had been asked what she had hoped to accomplish be killing Marat. Of all people Marat had been the most active and vigorous in calling for the beheading of thousands in the French Revolution. It was known as the Reign of Terror.
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots, better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution. Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, long before Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, he was a world federalist and an internationalist anarchist. He was nicknamed "orator of mankind", "citoyen de l'humanité" and "a personal enemy of God".
