Populicide
Populicide is a noun expression or adjectival, formed of the Latin root " popul-" (of populus , people) and of the Latin suffix " cide" (of caedere , to kill), indicating what kills the people or is harmful for him.
The term appears in 1794 during the Convention thermidorienne under the feather of Gracchus Babeuf which uses it in its lampoon system of depopulation or the life and the crimes of Carrier . By this term, Babeuf qualifies the exactions made by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, sent on mission of the national Convention to Nantes, during the Guerre of the Vendée.
About the same time, Babeuf employs it in another text, in its adjectival form, to indicate a measurement which causes the ruin of the people: “Infamous the Boissy-with Anglas appeared with the platform, and made adopt its code populicide. ”
In France, the word survived the French revolution in its adjectival form. The nominal form, ignored a long time, made its reappearance at the end of the XXe century, following the redécouverte of the lampoon of Babeuf, in connection with the Vendean genocide.
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