Filozofové, již byli duchovními otci revoluce roku 1789, neprahli po demokracii, nýbrž po osvícené despocii, po níž se mnozí Francouzi dodnes poohlížejí, když si volí prezidenta.
The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.