Girondins

Examples of Girondins in the following topics:

• Politics within the Revolutionaries

  • The second key factor in the split between the Montagnards and the Girondins was the September Massacres of 1792.
  • The conflict between the Montagnards and the Girondins eventually led to the fall of the Girondins and their mass execution.
  • The Girondins in the La Force Prison after their arrest.
  • The Girondins campaigned for the end of the monarchy but then resisted the spiraling momentum of the Revolution.
  • The Girondins comprised a group of loosely affiliated individuals rather than an organized political party.

• The Legislative Assembly

  • The leftists were of 136 Jacobins (still including the party later known as the Girondins or Girondists) and Cordeliers (a populist group, whose many members would later become the radical Montagnards).
  • Some historians dispute these numbers and estimate that the Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants (the Right), about 330 Jacobins (including Girondins; the Left), and about 350 deputies, who did not belong to any definite party but voted most often with the Left.
  • Tensions between Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly intensified and the blame for war failures was thrown first upon the king and his ministers and upon the Girondins party.
  • The King vetoed the decrees and dismissed Girondins from the Ministry.
  • The Girondins made a last advance to Louis, offering to save the monarchy if he would accept them as ministers.

• Foreign Intervention

  • The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins wanted to wage war.
  • The Girondins, on the other hand, wanted to export the Revolution throughout Europe and, by extension, to defend the Revolution within France.