1795 ⟶ Thermidorian Reaction: Anti-Jacobin Violence and Arrests
February 22: In the convention, the deputy Rovère demands th...
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1794
1795
🏛️ 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
🔪 Thermidorian Reaction: Anti-Jacobin Violence and Arrests
February 22: In the convention, the deputy Rovère demands the punishment of Jacobins who carried out the Terror. Former Jacobin leaders in several cities placed under arrest. Four Jacobins in Nîmes who conducted the Terror there are assassinated.⟶
Thermidorian ReactionWhite TerrorJacobinsRevengeAssassinationPolitical ViolenceFrench RevolutionNîmesConvention
🔪 White Terror Begins: Assassinations of Jacobins in Lyon
February 14; Several former Jacobin leaders in Lyon, who conducted the Terror there, are assassinated, beginning of the so-called First White Terror.⟶
White TerrorCounter-RevolutionJacobinsLyonAssassinationViolenceFrench RevolutionPolitical ViolenceRevenge
⚖️ Thermidorian Reaction: Deportation of Key Jacobins
April 1: The Convention orders the deportation to French Guiana of Barère, Billaud-Varenne, and Collot d'Herbois, and the arrest of eight extreme-left deputies.⟶
French RevolutionThermidorian ReactionJacobinsConventionDeportationPolitical PurgeGuianaExtreme LeftPolitical Prisoners
⚔️ Convention Orders Disarmament of Former Terror Supporters
April 10: Convention orders the disarmament of Jacobins who were involved in the Terror.⟶
French RevolutionThermidorian ReactionJacobinsThe TerrorDisarmamentPolitical PurgeConventionPost-TerrorPolitical Repression
⚔️ Jacobin and Sans-culotte Uprising Quashed by Convention Army
May 20: Armed uprising against the Convention by Jacobins and sans-culottes. They invade the hall of the convention and kill deputy Féraud. The army responds quickly and clears out the hall. The Convention votes the arrest of the Deputies involved in the uprising.⟶
French RevolutionJacobinsSans-culottesConventionUprisingCivil UnrestArmed ConflictPolitical ViolenceCounter-revolution