Quotes About Camille Desmoulins

I am thirty-three—the age of the good sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Do you know Camille Desmoulins?" he asked. "Have you seen him? He's one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous than a paper knife." He shook his head wonderingly. "Where do they come from, these people? They're virgins. They've never been to war. They've never been on the hunting field. They've never killed an animal, let alone a man. But they're such enthusiasts for murder.

On July 12, 1789, the young journalist Camille Desmoulins jumped onto a café table in the Palais Royal in Paris and exhorted his listeners to take up arms to defend freedom. In this way, it might be said that coffee led eventually to revolution.26