The Insurgent Called Apollo

[For all that the writer is more accustomed to scrawling, the letters here are carefully, deliberately penned, as if with great effort, for the subject is of vast importance.]

25 Brumaire XLI 1

Citoyen Enjolras,

A greater man than either of us phrased it best, I think:

If you wish a republic, so order it that the people may have the heart to be virtuous...

You have worked both to instill that virtue in what remains of the republic by your steps toward sending poverty fleeing, by producing jobs, by giving all the dignity that I have sought to give as well.

But we have neither of us, found success, though different fates came to us both.

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