Louis-Marie Prudhomme

Louis -Marie Prudhomme (* 1752 in Lyon, † April 20, 1830 in Paris) was a French revolutionary, writer and journalist.

Louis -Marie Prudhomme initially worked as a librarian in Lyon and Paris, and then settled down as a bookbinder in Meaux. When he returned to Paris, he was jailed several times for his writings: Between 1787 and 1789 he is said to have written about 1,500 pamphlets, including the three -volume work Résumé général ou Extrait of the cahiers de pouvoirs, instructions, demandes ou doléances draw par divers Bailliages, sénéchaussées et pays d' État du royaume, which he published in 1789 with Laurent de Mezières and the politician Jean Rousseau, and which was confiscated by the police.

July 12, 1789 to February 28, 1794 - during the French Revolution - he was one of the most important newspapers out: Révolutions de Paris. Head writer until his death in September 1790 was Élisée Loustalot, more authors and contributors: Sylvain Maréchal, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and Fabre d' Églantine. At times, Prudhomme was imprisoned as a royalist. In June 1793, he left Paris and initially withdrew from political life.

In 1797 he published L' Histoire générale et impartiale of erreurs, the fautes et des crimes commis pendant la Révolution française ( six volumes ), a work that was confiscated by the police of the Directorate. Later, from June to October 1799, he edited 105 editions of the daily newspaper Le Voyageur. In the same year he became director of the Hospitals of Paris, but put his work as a writer, journalist and translator continued.

As an opponent of the First French Empire in 1814, he welcomed the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. In 1825 he published L'Europe tourmentée par la Révolution de France, par dix- huit années ébranlée de promenades meurtrières de Napoléon Bonaparte ( two volumes).

  • Frenchman
  • Politicians (France)
  • Person in the French Revolution
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  • Literature (18th century)
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( French)
  • Born in 1752
  • Died in 1830
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