The National Convention Against the Royalist Conquest of France

resistance to the lave of 300 thousand was not unique to the vade, and was actually fairly widespread across france. In no time, the national convention started getting reports of all these anti draft disturbances in the vade and everywhere else through the first weeks of march. Selfish parochialism must give way to selfless nationalism, by force, if necessary. So on march ninth, the convention created institutions that they hoped would help them survive the crisis. And these institutions would soon become the means through which the coming reign of terror would be implemented.