Girondins

He had a profound personal horror of violence.

For instance, he had opposed the war against Austria and Prussia that the Girondins had pushed.

He was very against it, even though Ultimately, he is part of the institution that is responsible for sending people to the guillotine.

He never goes and watches executions himself.

He's above all that.

I mean, his incorruptibility is so useful at the time when people are looking for traitors, because he's the one person nobody would ever suspect of being a traitor.

I mean, at a point when you're saying, you know, Dumouriez, the Girondins, whoever, behind the mask, they were actually plotting all along.

Finally, we found a bloke that nobody would ever, ever say that about.

While he was in said bath, she, well, stabbed him to death.

Corday was associated with the Girondins, who were generally more moderate than Murat and the radical revolutionary groups he supported.

She believed Murat was contributed to the violence and instability of the revolution from her perspective.

Killing him was meant to be a political act.

His newspaper attacked people he believed were enemies of the revolution.

That made him popular with some revolutionary supporters, but in turn also made him a target.

Corday was associated with the Girondins, who were more moderate.

They weren't as radical as the radicalists.

We've got to do this.

These are the Girondins, right? These are the moderates in the revolution, and they hope they won't be consumed by it.

But they'll come after Gonzalez, too.

And yes, monuments of the founders will come down.

But within the convention, there are now two factions, we've talked about them in previous series, who are competing for people's allegiance.

So on the one hand, you have a faction called the Girondins.

And they really have had their upper hand for the last year or so.

And they are led, I mean, let's just reduce them very simplistically to two people, a former anti-slavery journalist called Jacques-Pierre Brissot, and there's a woman called Madame Roulon, presiding at a literary salon.

Exactly.

So they're kind of mercantile, self-improving yeah and the mercantile aspect is important isn't it because they are there's a set I mean maybe slightly anachronistic but they are kind of free market in their attitude towards economics whereas we will see their opponents are much more dirigiste so there's a slight Roy Jenkins against Tony Benn

Do you know, I was just about to say, there are people who would have been in the SDP in the 1980s, I think, the Girondins.

Oh, good.

This section took in the whole east side of the Faubourg Saint-Denis, whereas the present No. 63 is on the west side.

After Georget, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E-I-T, or Georget, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E-T, had been arrested, Paine was left alone in a large mansion, said by Rickman to have been once the hotel of Madame de Pompadour, and it would appear by his account that it was after the execution, October 31, 1793, of his friends the Girondins and political comrades that he felt his end at hand and set about his last literary bequest to the world, The Age of Reason, in the state in which it has since appeared, as he is careful to say.

There was every probability during the months in which he wrote, November and December 1793, that he would be executed.

His religious testament was prepared with the blade of the guillotine suspended over him, a fact which did not deter pious mythologists from portraying his deathbed remorse for having written the book.

This caused violent quarrelling in the convention.

The Jacobins, or the Mountain, as they were called, laid all the blame upon the Girondists, who had placed Dumouriez in his position as commander-in-chief.

they seized the opportunity to insist upon the setting up of the revolutionary tribunal a permanent assembly which was to try all cases of conspiracy against the nation each party hoped to be able to use this tribunal against the other The convention now made it clear that they suspected the loyalty of Dumouriez.

He was summoned to the bar of the convention, members actually being sent to fetch him.

She was executed two days afterwards.

the committee of public safety now began to redouble its efforts to root out those who were thought to be disloyal to the government their purpose was the defence of the revolution at all hazards the revolutionary system was applied to local government in twenty one thousand communes a committee of twelve was elected by the people and given wide powers of arrest and imprisonment and a tribunal was set up in the large towns with powers of life and death executions became common all over france again because the price of bread was rising and discontent was rife an attempt to fix prices was made by the law of the maximum this fixed first the price of bread and then the price of other necessities further the law of the suspects empowered the revolutionary committees to imprison all those who might be suspected of disapproving of the revolution for example all members of noble families or any who had aristocratic sympathies deputies of mission or representatives of the committee were also sent round the country their first business being to raise troops their second to watch the conduct of local officials and to help with the work of rooting out the suspects the guillotine an instrument for execution invented by a certain dr guillotin was kept busy to a terrible extent on october sixteenth marie antoinette was executed she had been accused and found guilty of many crimes against the state the chief being the charge of intriguing with austria the trial as might have been expected was conducted with shameless injustice here marie antoinette behaved with great heroism and dignity at her trial her defence was simple yesterday i knew not who were to give evidence against me or of what i was to be accused no one has proved any positive fact against me i was the king's wife and had to obey him her end has shed a halo of romance about her life her calmness and fortitude and the injustice she suffered are apt to blind people to the harm she certainly did to france and the cause of peace before the end of the month many of the girondins had followed her to the scaffold and early in the next month madame roland met with the same fate From this time onwards, both in Paris and in the provinces, executions were even more freely carried out in the hope of exterminating those who would not uphold the revolution.

The Girondists, having been destroyed, the mountains soon began to quarrel among themselves, those in the commune being unable to agree with those of the convention.

Danton, now that the elements of disorder had been suppressed in the state, wished for the dictatorship of the committee to end.