Hébert

American  

[ey-ber] / eɪˈbɛr /

noun

1. Jacques René Père Duchesne, 1755–94, French journalist and revolutionary leader.

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Hébert British  

/ ebɛr /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who was best known as the brash principal in HBO’s “Vice Principals,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025

Hébert came to see the housing crisis as a failure to collaborate with the people who already knew how to survive here: the first Alaskans.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

“I realized … that incorporating the wisdom of a people who had over 10,000 to 20,000 years adapted to one of the harshest climates was an important step,” Hébert says of the CCHRC/NREL.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

For this performance, part of Craig Harris’s Harlem Jazz Boxx series, Mr. Finlayson plays with a smaller but promising band, featuring David Bryant on piano, John Hébert on bass and Tim Angulo on drums.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2018

All through the summer he was evidently waning, whilst the Confederates, Chaumette, Hébert, and Vincent, became almost invincible.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville