Hébert

[ ey-ber ]

noun

1. Jacques Re·né [zhahk , r, uh, -, ney], Père Duchesne, 1755–94, French journalist and revolutionary leader.

Hébert

/ ebɛr /

noun

1. HébertJacques René17551794MFrenchWRITING: journalistPOLITICS: revolutionary Jacques René (ʒak rəne). 1755–94, French journalist and revolutionary: a leader of the sans-culottes during the French Revolution. He was guillotined under Robespierre

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If the Sieur missed his old friend Hébert, there were others to take an active interest in horticulture.

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M. Hébert, in particular, has learned nothing since his Malaria, which has been for a long time at the Museum of the Luxembourg.

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Maître Hébert hold the little girl in his arms, glad that, though living, she was only half-conscious.

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Marat's newspaper had seldom paid its way; but Hébert used to print 600,000 copies of the Père Duchesne.

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While Hébert was an anarchist, Chaumette was the glowing patriarch of irreligious belief.

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