Claim: Camille Desmoulins, a journalist and politician, would play a role in the French Revolution, inciting a crowd to riot in Paris.
Evidence: Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (French: [kamij demulɛ̃; 2 March 1760 – 5 April 1794) was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. This was an idea that his audience also found plausible and threatening, and they were quick to embrace Desmoulins and take up arms in riots that spread throughout Paris rapidly. On Sunday 12 July, spurred by the news of this politically unsettling dismissal, Desmoulins leapt onto a table outside the Cafe du Foy (one of many cafés in the garden of the Palais Royal frequented in large part by political dissidents) and delivered an impassioned call to arms.