1789 ⟶ Marat's L'Ami du peuple Launches, Advocating Radical Revolution
September 16: First issue of Jean Paul Marat's newspaper, L'...
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1789
1790
📰 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.⟶
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📰 Brissot Launches 'Le Patriote français' Newspaper
July 28: Jacques Pierre Brissot begins publication of Le Patriote français, an influential newspaper of the revolutionary movement known as the Girondins.⟶
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📢 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.⟶
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📰 Desmoulins' Newspaper Begins Publication, Attacks Royalists
November 28: First issue of Desmoulins' weekly Histoire des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, savagely attacking royalists and aristocrats.⟶
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📰 Marat's Attack on Necker Published
January 18: Marat publishes a fierce attack on finance minister Necker.⟶
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📰 Marat Resumes L'Ami du Peuple Publication
May 18: Marat returns to Paris and resumes publication of L'Ami du people.⟶
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