The politics of the "Révolutions de France et de Brabant" were anti-royalist and pro-Revolutionary. The newspaper celebrated the Revolutionary zeal of "patriots" from the battlefields of Brabant to the Cordeliers district in Paris (home to the well-known and powerful revolutionary Club des Cordeliers, of which Desmoulins was a prominent member), and also criticized the excesses and inequities of, among a wide range of targets, the aristocratic regime. The savagery with which Desmoulins attacked those with whom he disagreed drew lawsuits, criticism, and reciprocal attacks. His previous friendships with powerful figures such as the Comte de Mirabeau and Baron Malouet, suffered. Both men, angered by what they perceived as libellous statements, declared that Desmoulins should be denounced and Malouet "went so far as to ask that Camille be certified insane." The "Actes des Apôtres", the equally savage royalist newspaper that served as the "Révolutions"' opposite number, engaged in a continual war of insults with the "Révolutions," and particularly with Desmoulins, whom it dubbed, in a satirical poem, ""l'ânon des moulins"" (the little jackass of the windmills).