X Y S Affair

Tallyrand was brought in by the directory to account for himself, he then lied his head off. He said he had nothing to do with it, said that he didn't know who x y and z were. So the x y s affair is not exactly tallyrand's finest hour. The few true radicals remaining had been taken down with babuf in the conspiracy of equals. And so the anti right coup of eight fructidor gets a historical twin, the anti left wing coup of 22 florial.