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Hébert, Jacques René (1757-1794): French Revolutionary and Journalist

Jacques René Hébert was born on November 15 in the city of Alençon in the northwestern part of France. His father, a successful jeweler, also served as magistrate and at age 60, got married a second time to a 29 year old woman, Marguerite Beunaiche de La Houdrie, with whom he had four children, Jacques René being the second one. At age 11, young Hébert lost his father, and his mother chose to send him to college instead of going into his father’s trade. After graduating, he worked as a clerk but ruined his family’s finances upon defaming a physician. He decided to first move to Rouen but shortly after settled in Paris where he lived in misery and starvation.

By 1786, he was scarcely surviving by picking up some odd jobs. In 1790, he wrote a pamphlet, Petit Carême de l’Abbé Maury, which sealed his destiny as a journalist and by the end of the year, his famous journal, Le Père Duchesne,

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Jacques Hébert

French reporter and politician (1757–1794)

For other people named Jacques Hébert, see Jacques Hébert (disambiguation).

Jacques René Hébert (French:[ʒakʁəneebɛʁ]; 15 November 1757 – 24 March 1794) was a French reporter and leader of the French Revolution. As the founder and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne,^[1] he had thousands of followers known as the Hébertists (French Hébertistes). A proponent of the Reign of Terror, he was eventually guillotined.

Early life

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Jacques René Hébert was born on 15 November 1757 in Alençon into a ProtestantHuguenot family, to goldsmith, former rättegång judge, and deputy consul Jacques Hébert (died 1766) and Marguerite Beunaiche dem Houdrie (1727–1787).

Hébert studied law at the College of Alençon and went into practice as a clerk for a solicitor in Alençon, in which position he was ruinerad by a lawsuit against a Dr. Clouet. Hébert fled first to Rouen and then to Paris in 1780 to

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Laughter as a Political Weapon: Humour and the French Revolution

1In what is now a seminal work of cultural history, Robert Darnton graphically describes how in the 1730s two apprentices in a Paris printing shop, aided by the journeymen, massacred the cats in the neighbourhood. As a ‘cat person’, I have no desire to repeat in any detail the slaughter of our feline friends, but what is important here is that, in recalling the ‘great cat massacre’ twenty years later, one of the workers responsible described it as the funniest thing that ever happened in the printing shop. He was not alone, for all the workers thought that their bludgeoning and strangulation of the cats was so hilarious that they acted out the entire episode in mimicry at least twenty times thereafter. Normally, this sort of boisterous behaviour was aimed at humiliating a particular worker in the shop, the object being to force him to ‘prendre la chèvre’ –to take the goat– which meant fuming with rage, much to th