Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert was a French politician and writer known for his advocacy of religious freedom and his role in the early stages of the French Third Republic.
"To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue."