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Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason

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What Happens After the Gyrondin Expulsion?

Crowds of Parisians, zonkulat surround the convention in late May of 1793. The Jacobins don't like this kind of legal excess, but they're also happy to take advantage of it. Once the gyrondin have been expelled from the convention, the Jacobins can step up as the kind of leading fraction of the convention. So that has a lot to do with both how the terror plays out and what members of the convention will say later on.

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