Background
Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti was born on the 13th of June, 1738 in None, Province of Turin, Italy.
journalist Literature politician member of parliament in France poet
Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti was born on the 13th of June, 1738 in None, Province of Turin, Italy.
During the agitations that preceded the French Revolution Cerutti took the popular side, and in 1788 Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti published a pamphlet, Mémoire pour le peuple français, in which in a clear and trenchant style he advocated the claims of the tiers état (third estate). Probably the largest of Cerutti's literary enterprises was the newspaper founded by him, on September 30, 1790, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne and Philippe Antoine Grouvelle. was a highly successful newspaper during the French Revolution. It is unusual among revolutionary journals for having been targeted not at Paris or another large city, but to rural audiences.
The paper was extremely influential in much of the French countryside and had approximately 15,000 subscribers in 1791. Actual news reporting played only a minor part in the newspaper's writings: political commentary was by far the primary content. was thoroughly partisan in its republican favoritism, and unambiguous in its didactic presentation of its opinions. Less vitriolic and more analytical than many of its more infamous contemporary newspapers, also distinguished itself by rarely identifying individual politicians as enemies of its ideas, but instead relied on a simple trope of aristocrates and patriotes.
In May 1789 Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti presided over the electors of Paris, by whom in January 1791 he was chosen member of the administration of the department and afterwards deputy to the Legislative Assembly.