Camille Desmoulins

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoist Desmoulins , born with Own way (Aisne) the March 2nd 1760 and died in Paris the April 5th 1794, was a lawyer, a journalist and a revolutionary French.

Biography

Camille Desmoulins is the son of a general lieutenant to the baillage of Own way. It enters as stock-broker to the Louis-The-Large Lycée, where it makes poor studies. It has like school-fellow Maximilien de Robespierre. He becomes then lawyer in Paris.

He launches out in the policy after his election like deputy of the Third-state to the General states of 1789. He then forms part of the entourage of Mirabeau. In spite of a noticed stammering, it becomes one of the principal speakers of the French revolution. Its first great speech takes place in front of the crowd joined together in the gardens of the Palais Royal the July 12th 1789 after the Renvoi of Necker.

It makes its beginnings of journalist in November 1789, where it publishes the Revolutions of France and the Brabant , newspaper which will count 86 numbers. It denounces the idea of the aristocratic plot constantly there. He is also opposed to the Suffrage censitaire, by declaring that such a mode of election would have excluded Jesus-Christ or Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Its newspaper is suspended after the manifestation of the Champs of Mars of the July 17th 1791, although it does not have him not even taken part in this event.

Before the declaration of war of 1792, it is rather in favor of peace, like his/her friend Robespierre. But it changes then opinion and lines up at the sides of Danton and Marat. After the August 10th 1792 and the fall of Monarchy, he becomes secretary of the ministry for Justice, directed by Danton. It becomes increasingly committed in the way of a repression of the counter-revolutionaries. He is elected with the national Convention, where he sits among the Montagnards, but does not play of big role. Many of its contemporaries see in him a brilliance speaker, but unable to play a political role. He is opposed much to Jacques-Pierre Brissot, which shows it to be corrupted. He publishes against him Brissot revealed and Histoire of the brissotins , where he points out the fickleness of his adversary, old near to Fayette.

He moves away little by little from the Mountain dwellers, in particular after the judgment of the Girondins on October 30th, 1793. He then founds a new newspaper, the old cordelier , where he attacks the " Enragés" (Hébertistes) and launches calls to leniency.

Regarded as a dantonist, it is stopped at the same time as them, the March 31st 1794 and is guillotine on April 5th, 1794.

Camille Desmoulins had married in 1790 Anne Lucile Laridon-Duplessis. This young couple is regarded as a symbol of the “loves under the Revolution”, by being written many letters.

It will be also guillotinée a week later, on April 13rd, 1794.

Descent

Camille and Lucile Desmoulins had a son, Horace-Camille, were born the June 6th 1792 whose Robespierre will be the godfather at the time of one of the first republican baptisms. He is high with the son of Danton in a nurse of Isle-Adam, then, after the execution as of his parents, by his maternal grandmother Anne-Francoise-Marie Boisdeveix (Mrs. Duplessis). In 1800, Bonaparte granted to him a grant to the French Prytanée

In 1817, Horace Desmoulins goes to Haiti to assemble a commercial business and it marries there Zoe Villefranche with whom it will have four children. It dies there of a fever in June 1825.

Works

Quotations

  • “Here is my gun, I will be able to die glorious” (the July 12th 1789, with the Palais Royal)
  • “To burn is not to answer” (with the Club of the Jacobins, with Robespierre)
  • “Nonglad to assassinate me, they want to still assassinate my wife! ” (with the lawsuit of the dantonists, the April 4th 1794)
  • “People one misleads you, one kills your friends! My only crime forever be only to have poured tears! ” (on the cart which led it to the scaffold, the April 5th 1794)
  • “Torturer, you will give the hair of my wife to his mother” (word that it launched to the boureau, before dying on the scaffold)
  • “Lucile! ” (the name of its wife, that he shouted before the chopper falls)

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Site devoted to Camille Desmoulins
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