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Desmoulins

American  
[de-moo-lan] / dɛ muˈlɛ̃ /

noun

  1. (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoit) 1760–94, journalist, pamphleteer, and leader in the French Revolution.


Desmoulins British  
/ dɛmulɛ̃ /

noun

  1. ( Lucie Simplice ) Camille ( Benoît ) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Sophie Desmoulins, who is Guatemalan and lives in Sedona, Ariz., wrote her college essay with the court’s ruling in mind.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

Guillaume Gallienne makes a suitably scary Saint-Just, and Gaël Kamilindi is a highlight in the role of Desmoulins, here a youthful dreamer whose life is cut short alongside Danton’s.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

These are undoubtedly meaty roles, and other important historical figures make appearances, including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Camille Desmoulins.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Maximilien Robespierre, Georges-Jacques Danton and Camille Desmoulins: provincial boys given a head start thanks to their preternatural intelligence, living in Paris, hauling themselves up through hard work, surrounded by a profligate and lazy aristocracy.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

On the 12th of July Camille Desmoulins announced the dismissal of Necker to the crowd in the Palais Royal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

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