The New Police Legion of Paris

After the convention started systematically disarming paris and shutting down their locally controlled national guard units, there needed to be some kind of force in the capital to keep order. The problem for the conspiracy of equals was that they simply did not have the financial resources to bribe the people they needed to induce a full blown mutiny. By early april, word was getting genuinely excited about babuf and his call for the equal distribution of food. Efacing its first very real crisis, the directory was par ized.