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JACQUES RENE HEBERT (1757-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEBERT (1757-1794)  , See also:French Revolutionist, called " Pere See also:Duchesne," from the newspaper he edited, was See also:born at See also:Alencon, on the 15th of See also:November 1757, where his See also:father, who kept a See also:goldsmith's See also:shop, had held some municipal See also:office . His See also:family was ruined, however, by a lawsuit while he was still See also:young, and See also:Hebert came to See also:Paris, where in his struggle against poverty he endured See also:great hardships; the accusations of See also:theft directed against him later by Camille See also:Desmoulins were, however, without See also:foundation . In 1790 he attracted See also:attention by some See also:pamphlets, and became a prominent member of the See also:club of the See also:Cordeliers in 1791 . On the See also:moth of See also:August 1792 he was a member of the revolutionary See also:Commune of Paris, and became second substitute of the procureur of the Commune on the 2nd of See also:December 1792 . His violent attacks on the See also:Girondists led to his See also:arrest on the 24th of May 1793, but he was released owing to the threatening attitude of the See also:mob . Henceforth very popular, Hebert organized with P . G . See also:Chaumette (q.v.) the "See also:worship of See also:Reason," in opposition to the theistic cult inaugurated by See also:Robespierre, against whom he tried to excite a popular See also:movement . The failure of this brought about the arrest of the Hebertists, or enrages, as his partisans were called . Hebert was guillotined on the 24th of See also:March 1794 . His wife, who had been a See also:nun, was executed twenty days later . Hebert's See also:influence was mainly due to his articles in his See also:journal Le Pere Duchesne,l which appeared from 1790 to 1794 .

These articles, while not lacking in a certain cleverness, were violent and abusive, and purposely couched in foul See also:

language in See also:order to See also:appeal to the mob . See See also:Louis See also:Duval, " Hebert chez lei," in La Revolution Francaise, revue d'histoire moderne et content porcine, t. xii. and t. xiii.; D . Mater, J . R . Hebert, l'auteur du Pere Duchesne avant la journee du zo aoflt 1792 (See also:Bourges, See also:Comm . Hist. du See also:Cher, 1888) ; F . A . See also:Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et de l'etre supreme (Paris, 1892) .

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