Gracchus Babbeuf's real name was Francois Noel Babeuf. He was born to a family of independent peasant proprietors. His father was an ex-army major. Robespierre and Babeuf's family are believed to from the same village. When Gracchus was born, his father was obtained the title of commissaire a terrier, his job was to keep straight the archives and transactions of feudal estates and through this Gracchus came to know the injustice of the Feudal system. This is also the way in which Babeuf really got into the whole revolution aspect, he saw how people in France were being treated, and poor there status was. This aspiration made him take a step that no one would have believed a person like Babeuf would take; he took upon the duty to himself to help France.
Gracchus was put in jail many times for his writings wrote, but this was not the case when Gracchus had just begun writing essays. The noble that lived near Gracchus Babeuf read his first writings, and was very impressed by it, the noble then requested Gracchus to write more about what he was writing which was about the wrong doings of the French government at that time. As Gracchus wrote more and more, his ideas kept on getting more and more fierce towards the government, and so Gracchus would be put in jail for his writings, after spending some time in jail, Gracchus stopped writing his ideas, but after the death of his daughter he began writing again, and with more ferocity than ever.
Gracchus in his writings asked for equal rights, but his beliefs were considered very radical at that time, almost what today would be called communist. Some of the things that Gracchus said were "Those rich men who are not willing to renounce their excess goods in favor of the indigent are enemies of the people. In a true society, there must be neither rich nor poor. The purpose of society is to defend this equality, which is often attacked in the state of nature by the wicked and the strong, and to increase, through universal cooperation, the common enjoyment of the goods of nature.
