In an address presenting their claims before the National Assembly in 1789, they declare: regenerators of the French Empire, you would not wish that we should cease to be citizens, since for already six months we have assiduously performed all duties as such, and the recompense for the zeal we have shown in accelerating the revolution will not be to condemn us to participate in none of its advantages now that it has been consummated....
"Secret Societies And Subversive Movements"
Nesta H. Webster
It was rescued by the two great regenerators of mankind, new land and war.
"Emerson and Other Essays"
John Jay Chapman
With our own regenerators he extenuated the crimes which sullied their work from its first page, and declared them even necessary to make the conclusion so much the more complete.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton