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.
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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