1794Girondin Deputies Reinstated in the Convention

December 8: Seventy-three surviving Girondin deputies are gi...
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🏛️ Paris Mayor Demands Expulsion of Girondin Deputies

April 15: The mayor of Paris, Jean Nicolas Pache, demands that the Convention expel 23 deputies belonging to the moderate Girondin faction.
French RevolutionGirondinsJacobinsParis CommuneNational ConventionPolitical IntrigueFactionalismPurgeRadicalizationDeputies

🔪 Girondin Deputies Executed by Guillotine

October 31: The 21 Girondins deputies are guillotined.
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGuillotineGirondinsPolitical PurgeExecutionRadicalismViolenceFactionalismAtrocity

🏛️ Girondin Deputies Reinstated in the Convention

December 8: Seventy-three surviving Girondin deputies are given seats again in the convention.
French RevolutionGirondinsConventionPolitical RehabilitationThermidorian ReactionFactionalismPolitical PurgesReconciliationPost-Terror

🏛️ Convention Suspends Jacobin Club Meetings

November 12: The Convention orders the suspension of meetings of the Jacobin Club.
JacobinsConventionPolitical ClubsThermidorian ReactionFrench RevolutionPolitical PurgesRevolutionary GovernmentFactionalismSuppressionPolitical Opposition

⚖️ Convention Decriminalizes Émigrés

June 10: The Convention decriminalizes the émigrés who fled France after the Jacobin seizure of power on May 26, 1793.
French RevolutionConventionÉmigrésAmnestyLegal ReformThermidorian ReactionExilePolitical prisonersReconciliation

👮 Convention Arrests Fouché and Montagnard Deputies

August 9: The Convention orders the arrest of Joseph Fouché and several other Montagnard deputies.
Convention Arrests Fouché and Montagnard Deputies (1795)
French RevolutionThe ConventionMontagnardsFouchéPolitical PurgesThermidorian ReactionPolitical IntrigueRepressionDeputiesArrest