Babboof's Conspiracy of Equals

Babboof organized a conspiracy to overthrow the directory, which captured him and his fellow conspirators before they ever got the chance to try. The Directory does not want to see a resurrection of the Sankula movement; it also doesn't want to see an explosion of political clubs or sectional assemblies. So in closing down that arena, they radicalize quite a few people who belong to the Pantheon Club and drive them underground. And so it's not long after the Pantheon club is closed that a number of Baba's friends and political allies gather with him and say: Let's rise up and restore the Democratic Constitution of 1793.