Yet Robespierre was a political extremist whose speeches were lay sermons couched in the language of a new faith. On the next day, at the Jacobin Club, Robespierre called on the people to revolt. Though many more — Girondists and others — were to follow in their steps, the trial of these 21 before the Revolutionary Tribunal and subsequent guillotining, the first notable mass-execution of the Revolution, raised the curtain on the Terror. Après s'être intéressé de près au catholicisme, il prend ses distances avec le national-socialisme. It secured the nomination of François Hanriot, commandant of the battalion of the Jardin des Plantes, as sole commander-in-chief of the National Guard of Paris. At the Jacobins Billaud-Varenne echoed: "Our country is not saved; there were important measures of public safety that had to be taken; it was today that we had to strike the final blows against factionalism". 136 Girondins avaient devant et contre eux 267 Montagnards. Although they were not only weak but bad, no nation ever suffered a greater misfortune than that which befell France in their defeat and destruction. Mais ils hésitent à promulguer un prix maximum sur les denrées de première nécessité (le pain) comme le réclament les Enragés de Jacques Roux. "Representatives," said he, "vindicate your liberty; suspend your sitting; cause the bayonets that surround you to be lowered." [The Girondins] stood four months before their fall. Though for the popular movement most of the demands presented to the Convention were not achieved, the insurrection 31 May – 2 June 1793 inaugurated new phase in the Revolution. The Jacobins declared themselves in a state of insurrection. Les Girondins, arrêtés et retenus à leur domicile, s'enfuient et tentent sans succès de soulever les provinces. During that memorable struggle, the question was whether France should be ruled by violence and blood, or by men who knew the passion for freedom. The insurrection started on 31 May and directed by the committee at the Évêché (the Bishop's Palace Committee), developed according to the methods already tested on 10 August. Mais la plupart seront rattrapés et guillotinés. Et aussi.

At six o'clock in the morning the delegates of the 33 sections, led by Dobsen, presented themselves at Hôtel de Ville, showed the full powers with which the members had invested them, and suppressed the Commune, whose members had retired to the adjourning room. [13] Hanriot's first care was to seize the key positions—the Arsenal, the Place Royale, and the Pont Neuf.

Their rejection of the hand that bore the crimson stain is the cause of their ruin, but also of their renown.

Marat's case was passed to the Revolutionary Tribunal, where Marat offered himself as "the apostle and martyr of liberty", and he was triumphantly acquitted on 24 April. [clarification needed][10], The Gironde turned its attack on the very citadel of Montagnard power, the Paris Commune. The economic situation was deteriorating rapidly. Yet only 10 percent of the potential electorate of 7 million actually voted; the rest abstained or were turned away from the polls by the watchdogs of the Jacobin clubs, ever on the alert against “counterrevolutionaries.”.

Louis XVI died bravely on January 21, 1793. [11], Most of its members were comparatively young men and little known.

On arriving at a door on the Place du Carrousel, they found there Hanriot on horseback, sabre in hand. France now faced a formidable coalition of opponents, including Austria and Prussia. 1793 et les Girondins de Bordeaux. [8] Robespierre, leur chef, craint qu'une interruption du processus révolutionnaire n'entraîne une restauration de la monarchie.

[18], The petitioners went out shaking their fists at the Assembly and shouting: "To arms!". Danton said it was necessary to vigorously avenge this insult to the national honour. Learn about 62 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1793 or search by date or keyword. Les Montagnards ayant enfin les mains libres, ils vont prendre des mesures d'exception pour contenir les périls tant extérieurs qu'intérieurs. The assembly of the Parisian authorities, summoned by the departmental assembly, resolved to cooperate with the Commune and the insurrectionary committee, whose numbers were raised to 21 by the addition of delegates from the meeting at the Jacobins. Workmen thronged to obey Hanriot's orders, and soon eighty thousand citizens and National Guards, armed with cannons, surrounded the Tuileries.

Tout en étan… The Gironde, therefore, favored a large measure of federalism—which in the revolutionary vocabulary meant decentralization and a national government limited by many checks and balances. Girondins and Montagnards An artist’s depiction of the Girondins, the dominant faction until mid 1793 The Girondins and the Montagnards were political factions that took shape in the National Convention in 1792-93. In the course of summer 1793 Revolutionary government was created, maximum and price controls were introduced and Jacobin republic began its offensive against the enemies of the Revolution. Découvrez toutes nos lettres déjà parues. Et accédez à des documents multimédia, exclusifs et surprenants ! Ils tentent de faire mettre en accusation Jean-Paul Marat, un agitateur populaire qui sait mieux que quiconque manoeuvrer les sans-culottes des sections parisiennes. Saint Greluchon et les femmes. He had scarcely concluded, when the insurgent petitioners came to demand his arrest, and that of his colleagues.