Deputies Quotes



Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.


Beaumarchais had established the commercial house of Hortalez and Company with which to procure supplies for the American Revolution. He was actually a secret agent of the French Government however he was not terribly secret about his dealings much to the chagrin of both the Americans and the King and Foreign Minister of France. This quotation from a letter he actually sent to the Secret Committee of Correspondence of the American Congress under the name of Hortalez and Company was his feeble attempt at spycraft to set up his cover and then even offer his cover as a “safe house” for American operations in France. See {624187}.