The Girondin Revolution in Paris

This was a period of existential national emergency. People were frightened and desperate for alternatives. Many had lost hope that the middle class liberals in the convention would ever get around to addressing their needs. For many moderate as the seizure of the government and execution of their leaders was the last straw. And just like the conservative royalists, they took up arms against the new government. Unlike the royalist uprising, their rebellion was centred in cities and towns in the provincial capitals and port cities. Historians call this the federalist revolt, but i've never liked that term. It makes it sound like this was all over some arcane ideological dispute.