Historedia
Person

Camille Desmoulins

Events
1
Episodes
3
Years
1789

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Camille Desmoulins, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Outbreak of the French Revolution in Paris

    1789

    Role: Journalist who delivered a call to arms on 12 July 1789

    1. 11 July 1789 · Royal court at Versailles/Paris, seat of the king's decisionDismissal and banishment of Jacques Necker

      Louis XVI, influenced by conservative nobles, dismissed and banished the popular finance minister Necker and reconstituted his ministry.

    2. 12 July 1789 · Palais-Royal, ParisDesmoulins's call to arms at the Palais-Royal

      Shortly after Necker's dismissal, Camille Desmoulins delivered an impassioned call to arms to a crowd before the Palais-Royal.

    3. 14 July 1789 · Bastille fortress and prison, ParisStorming of the Bastille

      Revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized the Bastille fortress-prison in Paris on 14 July 1789, finding only seven inmates inside.

Sources

  1. Camille Desmoulins Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-24