L’Orateur du Peuple
newspaper founded by Fréron
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L'Orateur du Peuple was a newspaper founded by Louis Fréron during the French Revolution. Fréron, a journalist, used the paper to violently criticize the new system of constitutional monarchy. He later became a leader of the jeunesse dorée, a group that terrorized Jacobins during the Thermidorian Reaction. The newspaper's name translates to "The Spokesman of the People".1
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