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Press Freedom Protest

France · Revolution / Revolution of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1789Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1789

Honore Gabriel Mirabeau Comte de Mirabeau6 May 1789

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Mirabeau protests suppression of his Journal des Etats Generaux and argues for freedom of the press.

Honore Gabriel Mirabeau Comte de Mirabeau6 May 1789

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Mirabeau protested the suppression of his Journal des Etats Generaux and defended freedom of the press.

Names involved

Honore Gabriel Mirabeau Comte de Mirabeau

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