The Monarch and the Monarchy were distinct and separate things; and it was against the established despotism of the latter, and not against the person or principles of the former, that the revolt commenced, and the Revolution has been carried.
In "Rights of Man," Paine distinguishes between the individual monarch and the institution of monarchy as the target of the French Revolution.
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