1789 ⟶ Marat's Call for Radical Revolution
August 7: Publication of "A plot uncovered to lull the peop...
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1789
📢 Marat's Call for Radical Revolution
August 7: Publication of "A plot uncovered to lull the people to sleep" by Jean-Paul Marat, denouncing the reforms of August 4 as insufficient and demanding a much more radical revolution. Marat quickly becomes the voice of the most turbulent sans-culottes faction of the Revolution.⟶
Jean-Paul MaratRadicalismSans-culottesPolitical PamphletAugust 4 ReformsFrench RevolutionPublic OpinionPolitical PolarizationRevolutionary JournalismVoice of the People
📢 Desmoulins Publishes Pro-Mob Pamphlet 'Discours de la lanterne'
September 15: Desmoulins publishes Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, a radical pamphlet justifying political violence and exalting the Parisian mob.⟶
French RevolutionRadicalismPolitical PamphletViolenceMob RuleDesmoulinsParisPropagandaPublic OpinionRevolutionary Journalism
📰 Marat's L'Ami du peuple Launches, Advocating Radical Revolution
September 16: First issue of Jean Paul Marat's newspaper, L'Ami du peuple, proposing a radical social and political revolution.⟶
French RevolutionNewspapersPropagandaRadicalismMaratPublic OpinionPolitical DiscourseJournalismRevolutionary IdealsPress