Desmoulins, Camille (kämē`yə dām
lăN`), 1760–94, French revolutionary and journalist. His oratory of July 12, 1789, contributed to the storming of the Bastille two days later. His pamphlets and journals, such as Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789), were received with immense enthusiasm. Elected to the Convention (1792), he attacked the Girondists Girondists (jĭrŏn`dĭsts) or Girondins
..... Click the link for more information. in the Histoire des Brissotins; but late in 1793, after the execution of Girondist leaders, Desmoulins, along with Georges Danton Danton, Georges Jacques (zhōrzh zhäk däNtôN`)
..... Click the link for more information. , counseled moderation, publishing the journal Le Vieux Cordelier. He was arrested with Danton and others and was executed. His beautiful wife, Lucile Duplessis, was guillotined shortly after.
lăN`), 1760–94, French revolutionary and journalist. His oratory of July 12, 1789, contributed to the storming of the Bastille two days later. His pamphlets and journals, such as Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789), were received with immense enthusiasm. Elected to the Convention (1792), he attacked the Girondists Girondists (jĭrŏn`dĭsts) or Girondins..... Click the link for more information. in the Histoire des Brissotins; but late in 1793, after the execution of Girondist leaders, Desmoulins, along with Georges Danton Danton, Georges Jacques (zhōrzh zhäk däNtôN`)
..... Click the link for more information. , counseled moderation, publishing the journal Le Vieux Cordelier. He was arrested with Danton and others and was executed. His beautiful wife, Lucile Duplessis, was guillotined shortly after.
Desmoulins, (Lucie-Simplice-) Camille (-Benoist)
(born March 2, 1760, Guise, France—died April 5, 1794, Paris) French journalist influential in the French Revolution. Though a stammer had impeded him as a lawyer, he suddenly emerged as an inspiring orator when the Revolution began, inciting the storming of the Bastille. In his pamphlets and newspapers he campaigned for the deposition of the king and the establishment of a republic. Elected to the National Convention, he joined other Montagnards in a struggle against the Girondins. Later he and Georges Danton became leaders of a moderate faction, the Indulgents. After attacking the Committee of Public Safety's Reign of Terror, he was guillotined along with other Dantonists.
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