<P> Liberté, égalité, fraternité (pronounced (libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite)), French for "liberty, equality, fraternity", is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto . Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and was not institutionalized until the Third Republic at the end of the 19th century . Debates concerning the compatibility and order of the three terms began at the same time as the Revolution . It is also the motto of the Grand Orient de France and the Grande Loge de France . </P> <P> The first to express this motto was Maximilien Robespierre in his speech "On the organization of the National Guard" (French: Discours sur l'organisation des gardes nationales) on 5 December 1790, article XVI, and disseminated widely throughout France by the popular Societies . </P>

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