François XII de La Rochefoucauld Quote
Louis XVI: Is it a revolt?
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: No, Sire, it is a revolution.
After learning of the fall of the Bastille in 1789
In French: Non, sire, c'est une révolution
As quoted in: The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (Taylor & Francis, 2001), p. 98
