Camille Desmoulins with his wife Lucy and a child by Jacques Louis David

Camille Desmoulins with his wife Lucy and a child by Jacques Louis David

Lucy Semplis Camille Benois DeMuelin is a French lawyer, journalist and revolutionary. The initiator of the campaign against the Bastille, which initiated the Great French Revolution. Demulen was Maximilian Robespierre’s friend, imbued with respect for the ancient revolutionary spirit. Despite the stammering, he was an excellent speaker, became a lawyer. During the excitement in Paris, he turned to the crowd, calling for weapons.

The first attached a green ribbon to his hat. This call gave the first impetus to the destruction of the Bastille. Demanded the proclamation of the republic. At the trial of Louis XVI stood for the death of the king.

However, later Demulen began to call for mercy in his articles, but Robespierre ceased to support him. As a result, Demulen was convicted by a revolutionary tribunal and executed along with Danton. In the picture, Demulain is depicted in the best years of his life with his wife and child.

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