Le France Libre

pamphlet by Desmoulins

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Camille Desmoulins, a prominent journalist and pamphleteer of the French Revolution, authored the pamphlet La France Libre (Free France) in 1789. This work critiqued the rapidly collapsing French ancien régime. Desmoulins was also known for his fiery oratory and his newspaper, Les Révolutions de France et de Brabant. His writings advocated for republican ideals and the deposition of the monarchy, leading to his arrest in 1791. He later became involved in the political struggles of the Revolution, aligning with figures like Georges Danton.1

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Camille Desmoulins
…thereafter Desmoulins published his pamphlet La France Libre (“Free France”), which summed up the main charges against France’s rapidly crumbling ancien régime. In addition, his famous Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens (“The Streetlamp’s Address to the Parisians”), published in September 1789, supported the bourgeois-democratic reforms of the Revolutionary National…
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…thereafter Desmoulins published his pamphlet La France Libre (“Free France”), which summed up the main charges against France’s rapidly crumbling ancien régime. In addition, his famous Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens (“The Streetlamp’s Address to the Parisians”), published in September 1789, supported the bourgeois-democratic reforms of the Revolutionary National…
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