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Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary. An ardent supporter of the French Revolution, he gained the support of the working classes through his virulent paper Le Père Duchesne and was prominent in the Cordeliers Cordeliers (kôrdəlyā`), political club of the French Revolution.
..... Click the link for more information. . He became one of the leaders of the Commune of Paris Commune of Paris, insurrectionary governments in Paris formed during (1792) the French Revolution and at the end (1871) of the Franco-Prussian War . In the French Revolution, the Revolutionary commune, representing urban workers, tradespeople, and radical bourgeois,
..... Click the link for more information. , and, as such, his power was a counterforce to that of Maximilien Robespierre Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore (mäksēmēlyăN` märē` ēzēdôr` rôbĕspyĕr`)
..... Click the link for more information. . He was largely responsible for the tightening of the maximum price laws during the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. and for the Law of Suspects. An atheist, he and Pierre Chaumette Chaumette, Pierre Gaspard (pyĕr gäspär` shōmĕt`), 1763–94, French Revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. were the founders of the cult of the worship of Reason. Hébert's policies and his power over the commune threatened the government and aroused Robespierre's opposition. When Hébert and his followers began preparing for a possible popular insurrection, they were arrested (Mar., 1794), tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and guillotined.