I find January, February, and March, mythological as they were, quite as good as Nivose, Pluviose, and Ventose.

I can't understand why, when one was called Antoine or Chrystomome in 1789, he should be called Brutus or Cassius in 1793.
Here, for example, my lord, is an honest street, which was called the Rue des Halles (Market Street).

There was nothing indecent or aristocratic about that, was there?
Well, now it is called--Just wait (Roland read the inscription).

Well, now it is called the Rue de la Revolution.

Here's another, which used to be called Notre Dame; it is now the Rue du Temple.