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Jacques Hébert
French journalist 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 journalist 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).
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A proponent of the Reign of Terror, he was eventually guillotined.
Early life
Jacques René Hébert was born on 15 November 1757 in Alençon into a ProtestantHuguenot family, to goldsmith, former trial judge, and deputy consul Jacques Hébert (died 1766) and Marguerite Beunaiche de 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 ruined by a lawsuit against a Dr. Clouet. Hébert fled first to Rouen and then to Paris in 1780 to evade