Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason
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The National Convention in Paris Is a Great Place to Organize and Organize
In 1793, France is in crisis. It's fighting wars on every front; Catholics don't want themselves or their sons to be drafted into an army for a republic they don't accept. The whole nation is flying apart. And you've got these Saint-Culat crowd in Paris agitating and making demands of the convention. So what happens in the fall of 1793 is that the convention makes a number of concessions to the Saint- Culat. Concessions about gathering food from the countryside and pursuing people who are defined as counter-revolutionaries.
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