Brewer's: Pere Duchene

Jacques Réné Hébert, one of the most profligate characters of the French Revolution. He was editor of a vile newspaper so called, containing the grossest insinuations against Marie Antoinette. (1755-1794.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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