Desmoulins

The leading Hébertists were guillotined on 24 March, and Desmoulins along with the Dantonists followed on 6 April 1794.

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He joined the Cordeliers club, became acquainted with Camille Desmoulins, and served as secretary to Georges Danton in the Ministry of Justice.

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Desmoulins and Danton had formed a moderate faction, known as the Indulgents or Dantonists, within the Jacobin camp.

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As a deputy in the National Convention, Desmoulins struggled against the moderate Girondins.

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Revolution, Desmoulins 'public orations incited popular insurrection in Paris, culminating in the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789.

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In this he was allied with Robespierre, who supported this anti-Hébertist campaign and opposed Hébert's atheism, but in the next four issues of his paper Desmoulins distanced himself from Robespierre by condemning the Committee's use of economic controls and political terror.

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Speech, 14 July 1789, to a crowd outside Palais Royal, Paris, recalled by Desmoulins in his newspaper Le Vieux Cordelier (5 January 1794).

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(By the way, Desmoulins, I think you meant to say "Corzine" when you said "Lautenberg," in your list of self-funders of recent history.)

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Desmoulins was guillotined together with his friend Danton.

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Desmoulins then launched his newspaper Les Révolutions de France et de Brabant, which opposed anti-democratic policies.

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