The Termidorian Convention and Its Importance

A new brand of street fighter emerged with the secret, and at times not so secret, encouragement of the leading termidorians. The musketins dressed in fancy clothes, fancy clothes that all on their own would have made these young men targets for the revolutionary tribunal just a few months earlier. By mid september, therewe somewhere between two and three thousand musketin hooligans cracking skulls around paris. Now when these kids spontaneously appeared on the scene, their good work was openly applauded by a convention delegate named louis marie freron. After termidor, they were angry, bitter and looking for revenge against the loathsome under classes.