The Third Feast of the Federation

National guard units, those federe that had accepted the invitation to attend were even more radicalized than the radicalized sections of paris. Robespierre was quietly biding his time while brissa and the gerondins took control of his beloved jacobin club and then drove it into a war he opposed. So the gerondens were now losing their grip on things everywhere. And it was at this moment that george d'anton stepped back into the limelight and drove events into what, as i said last week, might plausibly be called the second french revolution.