Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… the Laws of Prairial of 1794 criminalised calumny and, in the latter case, called for sentencing the ‘calumniators of patriotism’ to death. Arguably, had more moderate libel laws been in effect earlier, the toxic ‘culture of calumny’ might …
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