Desmoulins

[ de-moo-lan ]

noun

1. (Lu·cie Sim·plice) Ca·mille (Be·noit) [l, y, -, see, sa, n, -, plees, k, a, -, mee, -y, uh, b, uh, -, nwa], 1760–94, journalist, pamphleteer, and leader in the French Revolution.

Desmoulins

/ dɛmulɛ̃ /

noun

1. Desmoulins(Lucie Simplice) Camille17601794MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary leaderWRITING: pamphleteerPOLITICS: orator ( Lucie Simplice ) Camille ( Benoît ) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator

Example Sentences

Sophie Desmoulins, who is Guatemalan and lives in Sedona, Ariz., wrote her college essay with the court’s ruling in mind.

From New York Times

Guillaume Gallienne makes a suitably scary Saint-Just, and Gaël Kamilindi is a highlight in the role of Desmoulins, here a youthful dreamer whose life is cut short alongside Danton’s.

From New York Times

These are undoubtedly meaty roles, and other important historical figures make appearances, including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Camille Desmoulins.

From New York Times

Maximilien Robespierre, Georges-Jacques Danton and Camille Desmoulins: provincial boys given a head start thanks to their preternatural intelligence, living in Paris, hauling themselves up through hard work, surrounded by a profligate and lazy aristocracy.

From The Guardian

Desmoulins, after inciting the storming of the Bastille, eventually succumbed to the guillotine in Robespierre’s reign of terror.

From Slate