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Updated: May 25, 2025
Afterward each fraction of the sovereign body in the Convention had proscribed the other; the Montagnards had guillotined the Girondists, and the Thermidorians had guillotined the Montagnards. Later, under the Constitution of the year III, the Fructidorians had banished the Constitutionalists, the Directory had purged the Councils, and the Councils had purged the Directory.
Prince, marquis and marquise, vicomte, and bishop, alike must keep body and soul together by turning wig-maker, baker, or milliner, until the madness of the French people should pass. By and by, the changes of fortune in France began to send over Constitutionalists, Thermidorians, Fructidorians, and the like, to plot and intrigue.
When I saw other Fructidorians at the head of the authorities of state when Conde's army filled the Parisian drawing-rooms and those of the First Consul, I might very well take a share in restoring to France the conqueror of Holland. I am credited with the absurd idea of making use of royalists in the hope of regaining power if they were successful.
* to compel the delegates of the Committee of Public Safety and their victims, the shooters and the shot of Vendemiaire, the Fructidorians and the Fructidorized, the Whites and the Blues of La Vendee and Brittany, to live in peace side by side,
On the next day two new Directors were chosen from the successful faction, Merlin de Douai and François de Neufchateau. The Fructidorians now controlled the situation, led by Tallien, Chénier, Jourdan in the Councils. Many officials were removed and replaced by their adherents. Priests were severely repressed, thousands being imprisoned.
Motives of the Fructidorians for breaking off peace negotiations with England, and for abandoning the invasion of foreign countries. How they found new republics. How governed. Estimate of foreign rapine. Number of French lives sacrificed in the war.
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