biography
| name: |
Hébert, Jacques René
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pronunciation:
[aybair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1757–94)
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| biography:
| French revolutionary extremist who represented the aspirations of the sans-culottes, born in Alençon, NE France. He became a popular political journalist, assumed the pseudonym le Père Duchesne after launching a satirical newspaper of that name (1790), and joined both the Cordelier and Jacobin Clubs. He became a member of the Revolutionary Council, playing a major part in the September Massacres and the overthrow of the monarchy. After denouncing the Committee of Public Safety for its failure to help the poor, he tried to incite a popular uprising, but having incurred the suspicion of Danton and Robespierre, he and 17 of his followers (Hébertists) were guillotined. |
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