REVOLUTIONS DEVOUR THEIR CHILDREN!

Jaques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) a Royalist sympathiser during the French Revolution coined the phrase ‘Revolutions devour their children.’ Du Pan witnessed the Revolution devour its own as he lived to see Robespierre arch-architect of the Reign of Terror himself being sent to the guillotine by his own co-ideologues. Subsequent revolutions have proven no less […]