Drew A has all of these qualities that make him kind of an ideal heroic figure. Like impeccable revolutionary bona fides. And a national hero who as a as a stable man had caught the king trying to escape during the famous flight to Varen. So when the directory arrests all of these people, it says it really boosts itself.
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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