Timeline of Hourwitz in The Revolution
- August 1788—Hourwitz, along with Claude Thiery and Abbe Gregoire, wins the Metz Royal Society contest
- March 1789—Publication of Vindication of the Jews
- May 1789—Hourwitz appointed Secretaire-interprete of the Bibliothèque du Roi
- September 1789--Journal de Paris includes a long review of Vindication of the Jews
- October 1789—Hourwitz donates a quarter of his net salary to the Revolution
- February 1790—Commune of Paris unanimously adopts resolution demanding the National Assembly acknowledge Jews as citizens
- June 1790—Hourwitz appears before the National Assembly as part of "a delegation of foreigners"
- October 1792—Hourwitz is dismissed from his position at Bibliothèque Nationale along with 11 others
- January 1793—Hourwitz publicly states that he is against the execution of the king
- December 1793- January 1794—Hourwitz appears before the revolutionary committee of the Reunion section
- April 1794—Hourwitz demands from Saint-Just an "explanation" for the decree forbidding foreigners from residing in Paris or in ports.
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