Jacques Hébert

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Jacques René Hébert (French: [ʒak ʁəne ebɛʁ]; 15 November 1757 – 24 March 1794) was a French journalist and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. The founder and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne, he was the chief spokesman for the Parisian sans-culottes. He and his followers, known as the Hébertists, played a major role in ushering in some of the most radical measures of the revolutionary period that culminated in the Reign of Terror. Born in Alençon into a bourgeois family, Hébert was brought to ruin by a lawsuit and fled to Paris in 1780, where he lived in destitution for nearly a decade. At the outbreak of the revolution he found success as a pamphleteer, and in 1790 he founded Le Père Duchesne, a newspaper noted for its provocative tone and ribald language that enjoyed immense popularity and widespread circulation among the Parisian working class. Hébert initially advocated in favour of a constitutional monarchy, focusing his attacks on the aristocracy and clergy...

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