12 anecdotes sur le couronnement des rois de France à Reims. Effrayés par la radicalisation de la population de Paris, notamment après les massacres de septembre 1792, les Girondins se retirent du club des Jacobins. Against you, who, after the revolution 10 August, wanted to send those responsible for it to the scaffold; against you, who have never ceased to incite to the destruction of Paris; against you, who wanted to save the tyrant; against you, who conspired with Dumouriez... Well my conclusion is: the prosecution of all Dumouriez's accomplices and all those whose names have been mentioned by the petitioners..." To this Vergniaud did not reply. 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. [1], During the government of the Legislative Assembly (October 1791-September 1792), Girondins had dominated French politics.[2]. The Girondins wanted a breathing spell in revolutionary legislation; they also defended provincial interests against possible encroachments by Paris. Ils reprennent place dans les travées de l'assemblée et votent la mise en état d'arrestation de 29 des leurs, ainsi que l'exige l'insurrection parisienne. Mais l'insurrection n'aboutit qu'à la suppression de la Commission des Douze. Historian, The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, List of people associated with the French Revolution, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Insurrection_of_31_May_–_2_June_1793&oldid=966737277, 18th-century coups d'état and coup attempts, Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl), Wikipedia articles needing clarification from June 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 July 2020, at 21:55.

Open war, said Vergniaud, is better than a hollow truce. De façon prévisible, celui-ci est acquitté par le Tribunal révolutionnaire qu'il a lui-même fondé. Arrestation des Girondins Le 2 juin 1793, 80 000 Parisiens en colère assiègent l'assemblée de la Convention. The Girondins at once raised the real issue by demanding inquiry into the massacres of September. Sacrée histoire ! It was decided that the poorer National Guards who were under arms should receive pay at the rate of 40 sous a day. Apparently Robespierre was sure that he knew the general will, and that it demanded a Republic of Virtue. In March the French army suffered a series of defeats in the Low Countries, and in April its Girondin commander deserted to the enemy. The Convention was numerically dominated by the Center, or the Plain, but again, as in the Legislative Assembly, the Plain was politically irresolute, though now sympathetic to a republic. 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.”.

The Reign of Terror had begun. Virtually all male citizens were invited to the polls. [16], On 1 June the National Guard remained under arms. The economic situation was deteriorating rapidly.

136 Girondins avaient devant et contre eux 267 Montagnards. He insults the people."

[11], Most of its members were comparatively young men and little known.