France is bound under the pain of humiliation and perhaps of social death to complete the French Revolution. It is the task of the nineteenth century; it is particularly the task of our generation. The centenary of 1789 must not dawn upon us without the reconquest by the people for itself and for the rest of the world of the political heritage of which it has been dispossessed since the 18th Brumaire.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "France is bound under the pain of humiliation and perhaps of social death to complete the French Revolution. It is the task of the nineteenth century; it is particularly the task of our generation. The centenary of 1789 must not dawn upon us without the reconquest by the people for itself and for the rest of the world of the political heritage of which it has been dispossessed since the 18th Brumaire." in the context of "Letter to the electors of the Seine (28 July 1869), quoted in J. P. T. Bury, Gambetta and the National Defence: A Republican Dictatorship in France (1936), p. 25" to mean that wisdom is timeless.