revolutionist-editor

Updated: January 13, 2026

And here, too, on that same day, Camille Desmoulins, the mad author and revolutionist-editor, ended his young life. Many a time with his comic yet sometimes awfully tragic pen, had he pointed with laughter to the Place de la Concorde, and its streams of human blood.

D. W. (David W.) Bartlett - Paris: With Pen and Pencil: Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business