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As early as 1942, Déat embraced the idea that the dictatorship of Robespierre and his Montagnards of 1792 and 1793 represented the true spirit of the French Revolution and foreshadowed the totalitarian spirit of National Socialism. The Jacobin legacy was therefore an integral part of the doctrine of the New Europe because the inheritance of that legacy was a "national-socialist" revolution of fully European scope. Did not the Reich Propaganda Minister's call to the elimination of "bourgeois" comforts and total European mobilization in 1943 recall the draconian appeals of Saint-Just in 1793? In the same manner as the Committee of Public Safety enforced a just price while defending the Republic against her enemies without and within, so an alliance of RNP and Nazi "left" promised to do the same on a grander scale