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Camille Desmoulins

1760 - 1794

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Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (French: [lysi sɛ̃plis kamij bənwa demulɛ̃]; 2 March 1760 – 5 April 1794) was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Storming of the Bastille. Desmoulins was also noted for his radical criticism of the Reign of Terror as the editor of the journal Le Vieux Cordelier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camille Desmoulins has received more than 653,300 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Camille Desmoulins is the 1,275th most popular politician (down from 1,171st in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from France (down from 441st in 2019) and the 110th most popular French Politician.

Camille Desmoulins is most famous for being the man who helped to spark the French Revolution.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Camille Desmoulins ranks 1,275 out of 15,577. Before him are Henry the Lion, Æthelred the Unready, Totila, Georgy Lvov, Paul Bocuse, and Stateira II. After him are Walther Funk, Theophilos, Ion Iliescu, Michelle Bachelet, Nitocris, and Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Camille Desmoulins ranks 7. Before him are Hokusai, Pope Leo XII, Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, and François-Noël Babeuf. After him are Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1794, Camille Desmoulins ranks 7. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, and Marquis de Condorcet. After him are Edward Gibbon, Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Georges Couthon, and André Chénier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Desmoulins ranks 466 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Roger Vadim (1928), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jean Dubuffet (1901), and Paul Bocuse (1926). After him are Gabriel Marcel (1889), Charles Messier (1730), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), and Jean-François Lyotard (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Camille Desmoulins ranks 110. Before him are Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Carloman I (751), Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), and Paul Bocuse (1926). After him are Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Christine Lagarde (1956), Aristide Briand (1862), Emmanuel Macron (1977), and Henri, Count of Chambord (1820).

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