Legislative elections were held in France in August and September 1792 to elect deputies to the National Convention. Primary elections to elect members of electoral colleges were held in August, with
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François Bonneville Portrait de Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, journaliste et conventionnel P2608 Musée Carnavalet
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The Girondins, also called Girondists, were a political group during the French Revolution. From 1791 to 1793, the Girondins were active in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention. Togeth
1792 French National Convention election
…Louis XVI. On 20 September the Convention gathered for the first time. From 26 August the candidates were elected by an electoral college; royalist and Girondin candidates were boycotted. On the same day news reached Paris that the Prussian army had occupied Longwy. On 28 August the assembly ordered a curfew…
The Girondins in the La Force Prison after their arrest, a woodcut from 1845
Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
The Arrest of Charlotte Corday by Hendrik Scheffer, 1830
Brissot et 20 de ses complices condamnés à mort par le tribunal révolutionnaire (Brissot and 20 of his accomplices are sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal)