Henri Grégoire

Also known as Henri Gregoire

Clément Gustave Henri Grégoire was an eminent scholar of the Byzantine Empire, virtually the founder of Byzantine studies in Belgium.

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Clément Gustave Henri Grégoire was an eminent scholar of the Byzantine Empire, virtually the founder of Byzantine studies in Belgium.

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Also known as Henri Gregoire

“Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the physical. Courts are the workshops of crimes, the lair of tyrants. The history of kings is the martyrology of nations.”
— From the debate during the first session of the National Convention (21 September 1792), translated by Robinson (1904), p. 449
“The more denuded a man is of virtues, the more he seeks to surround himself with frivolous distinctions. [...] But since pride unfortunately is the most tenacious of passions, the reign of prejudice has been prolonged, for man seems not to be able to attain truth until he has exhausted all of error's possibilities.”
— Letter to the Citizens of Colour and Free Negroes of (8 June 1791), translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org (2006)

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