Girondist


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a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution

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John Mill, who claimed never to have held religious beliefs, was nonetheless deeply moved by Bentham's Analysis--call-ing it "one of the books which by the searching character of its analysis produced the greatest effect upon me." Like his encounter with the principle of utility and his romance with the Girondists, Mill's engagement with Bentham's atheism proved a deep and abiding experience that would inform his labors for the remainder of his life.
For example, the Girondist faction distributed broadsheets among enemy troops offering rewards for desertion.
Williams migrated from London to Paris in 1791 where she set up among Girondist circles as a saloniere until forced by the onset of the Terror to flee to Switzerland.
The papers also describe his support of the Girondist effort to establish a constitutional monarchy and his emigration to the United States with his two sons, Victor and Eleuthere Irenee (E.
A Girondist member of the Legislative Assembly that deposed Louis XVI, Condorcet nevertheless fell victim of the Terror, was arrested and died in prison two days later.
Your love for the Fatherland must make you want to know the conspiracies that are being hatched there." [81] In the course of the interview, she handed him a list of alleged Girondist conspirators.
The so-called right-wing of the convention was the Girondists, who were simply the less-radical members of the socialist Jacobins.
Activist and intellectual Jean-Paul Marat called for the execution of Girondists Republicans she supported.
WHO overthrew the Girondists in the French Revolution?
A revolutionary and an excellent orator from the revolution's Girondists faction, he opposed the Jacobins and was another victim of the Terror that ended only after Maximilien de Robespierre, a leading Jacobin, was beheaded in 1794.
The Jacobins were a political group in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789 and were associated with Robespierre and The Terror, during which Royalists and Girondists, moderates, were guillotined.
(Their ideological fury and aspirations to world-shaping power match the Girondists and Napoleon, but they make quite a show of their disdain for the French.) Progressives, meanwhile, would fault these fathers of the republic for their aversion to global-scale government.