I am thirty-threethe age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
ATTRIBUTION:
Camille Desmoulins (17601794), French journalist, revolutionary leader. quoted in The History of the French Revolution, bk. 6, ch. 2, Thomas Carlyle (1837).
answer to the Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, Apr. 2, 1784, on the eve of his execution.