Graques Babouf, born Francois Noel Babouf in 1760, is the protagonist of "Bebuff" The book follows his life as he learns to read and become an intellectual. Bebuff's father was a bully who bullied education into his son but also taught him how to read. Without the revolution, it would not have been possible for bebuff to learn so much, says author David Frum.
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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