"'The legacy of the [French Revolution] is still very much alive,' said Jean-Noël Jeanneney, energetic director of the bustling Bicentennial Mission, headquartered near the Eiffel Tower. 'A nation is rich in its memory. And the roots of 20th-century France are in its founding myth. I'd like all the youth of this nation to know its story—so full of passion and surprise.'"
(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Great Revolution," July, 1989 National Geographic magazine)
