The French Patriot

The Patriote French was a newspaper created by Jacques Pierre Brissot, this newspaper appeared April 10th 1789 with the June 2nd 1793. A leaflet informed the population in the following way: “We propose to publish a newspaper political, national, free, independent of the censure and all parts of influence”. For his strength in his remarks, Jacques Pierre Brissot was sought by the police force of the king, it could make appear one number before the meeting of the general states. Of this newspaper, Jacques Pierre Brissot made a platform of the revolutionary ideas of it, it gave there an account of a way very alive of the debates which took place with the Parliament, it asked for the contest of Condorcet, Etienne Clavière, Henri Gregoire, like Jerome Pétion and many other deputies.

The 1207 numbers of the Patriote French are available in version digitized on the site Gallica, the numeric library of the BNF.

Some extracts

the French Patriot of the January 31st 1793

“Follow-up of its excessively pious people

of its court surrounded

The god of the sans-culottes

Robespierre entered

I denounce you all, shouted the pale speaker

Jesus! They are intrigants:

They lavish an incense

Who is due only to myself”

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