| L U C I L E A N D C A M I L L E D E S M O U L I N S“I look for your
| L U C I L E A N D C A M I L L E D E S M O U L I N S“I look for your faults, I find them, and I love them.” – Lucile Duplessis in an unsent letter to Camille Desmoulins Camille Desmoulins 2 March 1760 – 5 April 1794), a journalist and politician, 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. Desmoulins was tried and executed alongside Danton when the Committee of Public Safety reacted against Dantonist opposition. On 29 December 1790 Desmoulins married Lucile Duplessis, whom he had known for many years, describing her as “small, graceful, coy, a real Greuze." Lucile’s father long denied permission for the marriage, believing that the life of a journalist could not support any sort of family. Eventually it was, of course, Desmoulins’ journalistic profession that brought both of them to execution. Among the witnesses to the marriage were Robespierre, Brissot, and Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve. The Desmoulins’ only child, Horace Camille, was born on 6 July 1792; his godfather was Robespierre.Lucile Desmoulins was arrested mere days after her husband, and condemned to the guillotine on charges of conspiring to free her husband from prison and plotting the "ruin of the Republic.” She was executed on 13 April 1794, the same day as the widow of Jacques Hébert. In a last note to her mother she wrote, “A tear falls from my eyes for you. I shall go to sleep in the calm of innocence. Lucile.” [x]” -- source link
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