“Liberté - Égalité - Fraternité”
aka the official French motto, one of the only symbol of my country I really like but it’s kinda anachronic because this gang there, Léon, Io:nhiòte and Selim lived in the early 1800′s and the French Republic really adopted this motto after the 1848 revolution*
*(yeah, I know, another one, we love revolutions)*
Before that, this motto was lost among a lot of other mottos** like "la Nation, la Loi, le Roi" (The Nation, The Law, The King), or "Union, Force, Vertu" (Union, Strength, Virtue), “ liberté, unité, égalité” (liberty, unity, equality).
**(I’m really happy this one survived, I feel it’s the one which bring the more hope for a better society and future )*
Another thing about it: it has some alteration over time, like sometimes people*** merged it with another motto, the previous official one: “Vivre libre ou mourir” (Live free or die)**** and it become “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ou la mort” (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or death )
***(mostly socialists, communists and leftists )*
****(This one is really cool, you can see some banners in the Paris of the 1789 revolution (aka AC Unity) but if I remember well, it’s written “La liberté ou la mort” (Liberty or Death)*
This last motto was adopted officially by the Paris Commune***** of 1870, in 1871
*****(OK FIRST this one was an insurection, NOT a revolution... but yeah, they tried to do another revolution, but try to understand them: it was almost 40 years since the July revolution of 1830 )
Last thing but not least: some legend attribute the idea of adding “Fraternity” to “Liberty, Equality” to Jean-Baptiste Belley, a revolutionary, former slave and the first black deputy to take a seat in the Convention
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