Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

He therefore founded La Réforme in which to advance his propaganda. He and Alphonse de Lamartine held the tribune in the Chamber of Deputies until the Parisian populace stopped serious discussion by invading the Chamber. Quote
The following well-known quote or some variation of it is often attributed to Ledru-Rollin: "There go the people.

His opposition to the policy of President Louis Napoleon especially his Roman policy led to his moving the impeachment of the president and his ministers. He had just begun to practise at the Parisian bar before the Revolution of July 1830 and was retained for the Republican defence in most of the great political trials of the next ten years. Émile Ollivier removed the exceptions from the general amnesty in 1870 and Ledru-Rollin returned to France after twenty years of exile.