At each new insurrection there was a fresh inundation of newspapers.

The leading organs of public agitation were then the _Revolution of Paris_, edited by Loustalot; a weekly paper, with a circulation of 200,000 copies; the feeling of the man may be seen in the motto of his paper: "The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees--let us rise!" The _Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens_, subsequently called the _Revolutions de France et de Brabant_, was the production of Camille Desmoulins.

This young student, who became suddenly a political character on a chair in the garden of the Palais Royal, on the first outbreak of the month of July, 1789, preserved in his style, which was frequently very brilliant, something of his early character.

It was the sarcastic genius of Voltaire descended from the saloon to the pavement.
No man in himself ever personified the people better than did Camille Desmoulins.

He was the mob with his turbulent and unexpected movements, his variableness, his unconnectedness, his rages interrupted by laughter, or suddenly sinking into sympathy and sorrow for the very victims he immolated.