
3.29- The Purge of the Girondins
Revolutions
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Girondens successfully steered through the maximum on grains, also known as the first maximum. This established a sealing on grain prices that would be enforced by all departmental authorities. The commission of 12 made its first move, ordering the arrest of jean francois varlay and a radical journalist named jacques rene hibert. Robespierre endorsed the call for paris to rise up against the gerandan deputies.
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