With connections to Louis XVI, the Flight to Varennes, Napoleon’s downfall and some serious workplace health and safety violations, this speech does a perfect job of illustrating the dysfunction and factionalism of the Convention in June 1793!
Facing setbacks and defeat, the insurrectionists of Paris recommitted to the cause. Surrounding the Convention with armed force, the deputies of the Convention were compelled to submit. On June 2, 1793, the Girondins were purged, and French history...
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The speech of a madman, or an overblown affair? This Episode Extra unpacks the reactions and controversies surrounding Isnard’s infamous threats against the people of Paris in May 1793.
Insurrection! With deadlock paralysing the Convention, and the Commission of Twelve provoking the radicals of Paris, another journée consumed the capital. With the establishment of the Central Revolutionary Committee and the Évêché Assembly, the...
This episode extra examines the actions of Jacques Hébert which anger the Commission of Twelve. It also explores claims that the plotting radicals planned to murder the deputies of the Plain.
With the revolution paralysed by factional feuds, the people of Paris moved to break the deadlock. This episode explores the weeks immediately preceding the Purge of the Girondins, including how Brissot and his allies rally support across the...
Danton was accused by many of secretly conspiring with General Dumouriez. What evidence supports these claims, and how do historians justify his suspicious silence?
Once a hero of the revolution, the King’s cousin was arrested on the 4th of April. What did the Jacobin deputy do to warrant such treatment? Or perhaps more importantly, what did his family do?
Division and discord cripples the Convention as factional warfare consumes the deputies. Empowered with new legislation, and gripped by fears of conspiracies, the deputies begin to arrest and impeach their own. The struggle to the death has begun...
