List of journals appearing under the French Revolution
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French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
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- Les Actes des Apôtres (journal royaliste) : Journiac de Saint-Méard, Suleau
- Les Annales patriotiques : Louis-Sébastien MercierLouis-Sébastien MercierLouis-Sébastien Mercier was a French dramatist and writer.-Early life and education:He was born in Paris to a humble family: his father was a skilled artisan who polished swords and metal arms. Mercier nevertheless received a decent education.-Literary career:Mercier began his literary career by...
, Jean-Louis Carra - Annales politiques(Les) : Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet
- L'Anti-Fédéraliste : (Comité de salut public) inspiré par Maximilien de Robespierre
- L'Anti-fédéraliste : Claude-François de PayanClaude-François de PayanClaude-François de Payan was a political figure of the French Revolution.-Early career:...
. - L'Ami du peuple : Jean-Paul MaratJean-Paul MaratJean-Paul Marat , born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution...
- L'Ami des citoyens : Jean-Lambert TallienJean-Lambert TallienJean-Lambert Tallien , was a French political figure of the revolutionary period.-Clerk and journalist:He was the son of the maître d'hôtel of the Marquis de Bercy, and was born in Paris. The marquis, noticing his ability, had him educated, and got him a place as a lawyer's clerk...
. - L'Ami du peuple par Leclerc : Jean-Théophile Leclerc.
- L'Ami du roi : Christophe Félix Louis Ventre de la Touloubre Galart de Montjoie.
- L'Ami des Théophilanthropes : Armand-Joseph Guffroy.
- L'Apocalypse : MirabeauHonoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauHonoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a French revolutionary, as well as a writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and French politician at the same time. He was a popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on...
- L'Argus patriote : Charles Theveneau de MorandeCharles Theveneau de MorandeCharles Théveneau de Morande was a gutter journalist, blackmailer and French spy who lived in London in the 18th century.-Links and references:* Simon Burrows, from Johns Hopkins University Press....
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- La Bouche de fer : Claude Fauchet, Nicolas de Bonneville.
- Bulletin du tribunal révolutionnaire : Jean-Baptiste Coffinhal.
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- Le Chien et le Chat : Jacques René Hébert.
- La Chronique de Paris : Condorcet.
- La Chronique du mois : Jean-Marie Collot d'HerboisJean-Marie Collot d'HerboisJean-Marie Collot d'Herbois was a French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and, while he saved Madame Tussaud from the Guillotine, he administered the execution of more than 2,000 people in the city of...
, Étienne ClavièreÉtienne ClavièreÉtienne Clavière was a Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.-Geneva and London:...
, Condorcet. - Conservateur (Le) : Dominique Joseph GaratDominique Joseph GaratDominique Joseph Garat was a French writer and politician.- Biography :Garat was born at Bayonne...
, Marie-Joseph Chénier, François Daunou. - Le Contrepoison ou préservatif contre les motions insidieuses : (journal royaliste)
- : Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles.
- (1789) : François-Noël Babeuf, dit Grachus BabeufFrançois-Noël BabeufFrançois-Noël Babeuf , known as Gracchus Babeuf , was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period...
. - Le Cosmopolite : Berthold Proli.
- Le Courrier de Brabant : Camille DesmoulinsCamille DesmoulinsLucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.-Early...
. - Le Courier de l'Europe : Samuel Swinton, puis Radix de Sainte-FoixMaximilien Radix de Sainte-FoixMaximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, born Charles-Pierre-Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix , was a noted French financier and politician. He held the position of Superintendent of Finance for Comte d'Artois. Later, he headed the secret council of advisers for Louis XVI, while the latter was being...
(propriétaires), Alphonse-Joseph Serre de la Tour, puis Charles Théveneau de MorandeCharles Theveneau de MorandeCharles Théveneau de Morande was a gutter journalist, blackmailer and French spy who lived in London in the 18th century.-Links and references:* Simon Burrows, from Johns Hopkins University Press....
(directeurs). - Le Courrier de Provence : MirabeauHonoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauHonoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a French revolutionary, as well as a writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and French politician at the same time. He was a popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on...
- Le Courrier de Versailles à Paris et de Paris à Versailles (de 1789 à 1792) : Antoine-Joseph Gorsas.
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- Les Dames nationales ou le Kalendrier des citoyennes : Restif de La Bretonne.
- Le Défenseur de la liberté : Pierre PhilippeauxPierre PhilippeauxPierre Philippeaux, was a French lawyer who was a deputy to the National Convention for Sarthe.-Life:A lawyer then judge at the district tribunal for Le Mans, he created the newspaper Le défenseur de la Liberté at the start of the French Revolution...
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- La GazetteLa GazetteLa Gazette , originally Gazette de France, was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and issued its first number on May 30, 1631. It progressively became the mouthpiece of one royalist faction, the Legitimists...
: Théophraste RenaudotThéophraste RenaudotThéophraste Renaudot was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist.Born in Loudun, Renaudot received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1606. He returned to Loudon where he met Cardinal Richelieu and Père Joseph. In the 1610s, Richelieu became more powerful and...
, Fallet, Chamfort. - Il Giornale patriotico di Corsica : Philippe Buonarrotti.
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- Journal de la liberté de la presse : François Noël Babeuf dite Gracchus Babeuf.
- Journal de la Montagne.
- Journal de l'opposition : Pierre-François Réal.
- Journal de Paris : Corancez, Antoine Cadet de Vaux, Dussieux, N. Xhrouet.
- Journal de Paris : Michel Louis Étienne Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angely
- Journal de Perlet : Charles Frédéric Perlet.
- Journal des amis de la Constitution : Pierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ....
. - Journal des Défenseurs de la patrie
- Journal des débatsJournal des DébatsThe Journal des débats was a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times...
* Le Mémorial : Jean-François de La HarpeJean-François de La HarpeJean-François de La Harpe was a French playwright, writer and critic.-Life:La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents. His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family originally of Vaud...
, Fontanes, Vauxelles. - Journal général : l'abbé Fontenai.
- Journal des Halles.
- Journal des laboureurs : Joseph Lequinio.
- Journal des lois : Charles-Nicolas Osselin.
- Journal du soir sans réflexions et courriers de Paris et de Londres : Étienne Feuillant.
- Le Journal du soir sans réflexions et le courrier de la capitale : Étienne Feuillant. Denis Tremblay et Jacques René Hébert.
- Journal politique et littéraire : Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet.
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- La lanterne magique : Boisset.
- Lettres à mes commettants : Mirabeau
- Lettres bougrement patriotiques du Père Duchêne : Antoine Lemaire.
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- La Manufacture
- Le Miroir : Claude François Beaulieu (journal royaliste).
- Le Moniteur UniverselLe Moniteur UniverselLe Moniteur Universel was a French newspaper founded in Paris on November 24, 1789 under the title Gazette Nationale ou Le Moniteur Universal by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, and which ceased publication on June 30, 1901...
: Charles-Joseph Panckouke.
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- Observateur : Gabriel Feydel.
- L'Orateur du peuple : Stanislas FréronLouis-Marie Stanislas FréronLouis-Marie Stanislas Fréron was a French politician, journalist, representative to the National Assembly, and a representative on mission during the French Revolution.-Background:...
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- Le Patriote français : Jacques Pierre BrissotJacques Pierre BrissotJacques Pierre Brissot , who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution. Some sources give his name as Jean Pierre Brissot.-Biography:...
- Le Père Duchesne : Jacques Hébert
- Le Père Duchêne de Jean Charles Jumel : Abbé Jean Charles Jumel.
- Les Petites affiches : Pierre Bénézech
- Le Point du jour : Barère de VieuzacBertrand Barère de VieuzacBertrand Barère de Vieuzac was a French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.-Early career:He was born at Tarbes in Gascony...
- Le Publiciste de la République française: Jacques RouxJacques RouxJacques Roux was a radical Roman Catholic priest that took an active role in the revolutionary politics of Paris 1789, during the French Revolution...
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- Républicain (Le) : Duval.
- Le Républicain : Condorcet, Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
. - Retour du Père Duchêne, premier poêlier du monde : M. de Mont-Lucy.
- Le Réveil du peuple
- La Révolution de 1792 : Louis Ange PitouLouis Ange PitouLouis Ange Pitou was a French author and counter revolutionary.-Biography:...
. - Révolutions de France et de Brabant (Les) : Camille DesmoulinsCamille DesmoulinsLucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.-Early...
- Les Révolutions de Paris : Elisée Loustalot, Sylvain MaréchalSylvain MaréchalSylvain Maréchal was a French essayist, poet, philosopher, and, as a political theorist, precursor of utopian socialism and communism...
, Fabre d'ÉglantineFabre d'ÉglantinePhilippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine , commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine , was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.-Early life:He was born in Carcassonne, Aude...
, Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, Léger-Félicité SonthonaxLéger-Félicité SonthonaxLéger-Félicité Sonthonax was a French Girondist and abolitionist during the French Revolution who controlled 7,000 French troops in Saint-Domingue during part of the Haitian Revolution. His official title was Civil Commissioner. From September 1792 - December 1795 he was the de facto ruler of...
. - Le Rougyff ou le franc en vedette : Armand-Joseph GuffroyArmand-Joseph GuffroyArmand-Benoît-Joseph Guffroy was a lawyer and politician of the French Revolution....
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- Sentinelle (La) : Louvet, François Daunou.
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- Le Thermomètre du jour :Jean-Marie RollandJean-Marie RollandJean-Marie Rolland is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Yonne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...
. - Le Tocsin de Liège.
- Le Tribun du peuple : Gracchus Babeuf
- La Tribune des patriotes : Camille DesmoulinsCamille DesmoulinsLucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.-Early...
, Louis-Marie Stanislas FréronLouis-Marie Stanislas FréronLouis-Marie Stanislas Fréron was a French politician, journalist, representative to the National Assembly, and a representative on mission during the French Revolution.-Background:...
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- Vieux Cordelier (Le)Le Vieux CordelierLe Vieux Cordelier was a journal published in France between 5 December 1793 and 3 February 1794. Its radical criticism of ultra-revolutionary fervor and repression in France during the Reign of Terror contributed significantly to the downfall and execution of the Dantonists, among whom its author,...
: Camille DesmoulinsCamille DesmoulinsLucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.-Early... - Les Vitres cassées (1789) : Antoine Lemaire.