Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Camille Desmoulins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French politician Camille Desmoulins.
Last updated on November 27, 2024.
Camille Desmoulins

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. Desmoulins was tried and executed alongside Georges Danton when the Committee of Public Safety reacted against Dantonist opposition. He was a schoolmate of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.

Burning is no answer.
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine. — © Camille Desmoulins
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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