Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit
"Liberté, égalité, fraternité" actually finds its origins in a May 1791 proposition by the "Club des Cordeliers", following a speech on the Army by the Marquis de Guichardin. A British marine held prisoner on the French ship "Le Marat" in 1794 wrote home in letters published in 1796: