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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

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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 30th of March Danton, Desmoulins and others of the party were suddenly arrested.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

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