Antoine Francois Momoro ( French: Antoine-François Momoro ; 1756, Besancon - March 24, 1794, Paris ) - French publisher and bookseller, revolutionary, publisher of a printing house and bookstore, speaker in cordelers and ebertists clubs. He is attributed to the authorship of the French Republic motto “Unité, Indivisibilité de la République; Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ou la mort ”( Unity, the indivisibility of the Republic; Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood or Death ). He ended his life on the guillotine .
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He came from a family with Spanish roots. He received a good education in his hometown, in the 1780s he moved to Paris, from 1787 he was engaged in bookselling . He was an opponent of monarchy and Catholicism, and after the start of the French Revolution in 1789, he began to actively participate in revolutionary events, having bought several print presses and began to publish revolutionary literature. From the Paris Commune, he received the exclusive right to print the necessary literature and became the secretary of the Society for Human Rights, later transformed into the Cordelier Club, in which he was also one of the first speakers. He was one of the organizers of the execution on the Field of Mars , for which he was imprisoned until September 1791, after which he returned to publishing.
Since June 1792 he was a supporter of Marat . After August 10, 1792 he was appointed a member of the administrative commission of the Sena Department , supervised the placement on the facades of all institutions of the city the motto of the revolution. Gradually became an increasingly radical politician, took an active part in "de-Christianization", was a supporter of the cult of reason . In May 1793 he was sent to Vendée , participated in the suppression of the royalist rebellion and the siege of Saumur . After the murder of Marat in July 1793, sought to take his place. He opposed the Girondins , Robespierre (whom he accused of moderation ) and the Committee for Public Safety , and was eventually arrested and sentenced by a revolutionary court on March 13, 1794, together with Eber and accomplices of the latter ; was executed one day after the sentencing.
His works: “Rapport sur les événements de la guerre de la Vendée” and “Le Journal des Cordeliers” (only 10 issues appeared).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ http://www.estrepublicain.fr/actualite/2011/07/18/impression-et-expression
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 128851171 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Sources
- Momoro, Antoine-Francois // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Momoro, Antoine-François // Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. - 2004 (English)
- Momoro Antoine Francois - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . (Russian)