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Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) was a French journalist who did his best to work the Parisians into a revolutionary frenzy, famously with his 1789 "Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens" (The Streetlamp’s Address to the Parisians) advocating for lynching the enemies of the people. 
In the true spirit of revolutionaries everywhere, Desmoulins was himself sent to the guillotine after a farcical trial where the prosecuted were not allowed to defend themselves, in essence still giving him more justice than what he advocated ought to be given his "undesirables".
Camille made a terrible spectacle of his execution, but his young wife Lucile, sentenced a few days later, carried herself very nobly, earning the crowd's admiration. Perhaps he knew he deserved what he was getting, and she knew that she did not. Innocence is a remarkable thing.
