   jacques renÃ© hÃ©bert (; 15 november 1757 - 24 march 1794) was a french journalist, and the founder and editor of the extreme radical newspaper le pÃ¨re duchesne during the french revolution.doyle, william (1989); the oxford history of the french revolution; clarendon press; isbn 0-19-822781-7. see p.227: "[hÃ©bert] was himself a journalist... producer of the increasingly popular pÃ¨re duchesne." his followers are usually referred to as the hÃ©bertists or the hÃ©bertistes; he himself is sometimes called pÃ¨re duchesne, after his newspaper. ==early life== young jacques hÃ©bert|thumb|100px|left|hÃ©bert arrived in paris in 1780, at the age of 23. he was born on 15 november 1757 at alenÃ§on, to goldsmith, former trial judge, and deputy consul jacques hÃ©bert (died 1766) and marguerite beunaiche de houdrie (1727â1787). jacques-renÃ© hÃ©bert studied law at the college of alenÃ§on and went into practice as a clerk in a solicitor of alenÃ§on, at which time he was ruined by a lawsuit against a dr. clouet. hÃ©bert fled first to rouen and then to paris. for a while he passed through a difficult financial time and lived through the support of a hairdresser in rue des noyers. there he found work in a theater, la rÃ©publique, where he wrote plays in his spare time, but these were never produced. he was fired for stealing. he then entered the service of a doctor. it is said he lived through expediency and scams. in 1789, he began his writing with a pamphlet "la lantern
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