The Commissary of the Communal Council

After the decree on hostages was promulgated, the versailles government and its mihty ological heirs tried to make it sound like the reign of terror was now back. But as radical as he was, rigo never pressed to execute any of those that he had arrested. The hostages were meant to be leveraged, not liquidated. And in fact, after locating and arresting the archbishop of paris, the commune tried to leverage him for the first time. On april twelfth they offered to trade him straight up for blanquis. Adolf tierre said no. So the next move towards dictatorship was to put the war effort under a single overall commander for that