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“It was not to liberty, that goddess of all, that mothers sacrificed their children: it was to the ambition, the selfishness, the pride of one man.”
Source: Mes Mémoires (1852), volume I, chapter 28
Context In his memoirs he described Villers-Cotterêts in 1814, when Napoleon's conscriptions had taken a generation of young men and the Allied invasion reached France.
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