The fall of the girondins and the federalist revolt

Question 1

sans culottes

Answer 1

Sans culottes become increasingly militant as the war went badly and prices rose
Repeated call for price controls on basic goods, national convention blocked that
Disturbances in paris in february and march over the price of bread and soap
Bakers who refused to lower their prices were threatened with violence

Question 2

jacobin reaction to food riots

Answer 2

Robespierre initially showed little sympathy for food riots
But realised the political advantage of supporting the sans culottes against grain hoarders and discretion girondin rivals
Marat in his articles blames the girondins (bourgeois businessmen) for frances problems
Produced attacks on gordon printing presses on 9- 10th march

Question 3

Marats arrest

Answer 3

12th april 1793 girondins produced an indictment for marat’s arrest on the grounds of inciting murder, pillage and attacking the authority of the convention
Broke the principle that member of the convention were immune from prosecution because of their political views
Marmat tried before the revolutionary tribunal & acquitted 12 days later
Danton used this to portray the girondins as enemies of liberty

Question 4

price control

Answer 4

3 may, 8,000 san culotte surround the convention demand price control on bread
Robepierrre wins a vote to establish the first price control on wheat and flour
Girondins argued that food supplies would soon increase and price would fall but alliance between the jacobins and sans culottes confirmed

Question 5

girondin deputies expelled

Answer 5

26 may robespierre calls a rising against the corrupt deputies in the convention
31 may - 2 june 1000s of sans codes supported by the armed national guards besieged the convention demanding the girondins be expelled
Initially some of the plains tried to resist
But on 2 june a crowd of 100,000 assembled around the convection and they gave in
Those who tried to leave were stopped from doing so until they had given their support to robespierre nation that 29 girondin deputies be expelled from the convention
75 deputies abstained but this just brought suspicion upon themselves

Question 6

The federalist revolt

Answer 6

Expulsion of the girondins propelled a revolt in the department where girondin support was strongest
29th may jacobin leader in lyon were forced out of office
June expulsion of jacobins in avignon bordeaux , caen, marseilles and toulon
60 out of 83 departments protested against the expulsion with serious conflict in 8