The Mountain
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The Mountain was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the National Convention. The term, first used during a session of th
The arrest of Maximilien Robespierre and his allies showing at the centre of the image gendarme Merda firing at Robespierre (colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Carnavalet Museum)
Pro-Montagnard art
National Convention
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The National Convention was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and of the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-yea
The Mountain
…pronounced ) was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards (French: ), sat on the highest benches in the National Convention. The term, first used during a session of the Legislative Assembly, came into general use in 1793. By the summer of 1793, the pair of opposed minority…
Extrait du procès verbal de la convention nationale du vongt quatrième jour de Thermidor l'an deuxième de la République, Paris Musées 20230910202229
The trial of Louis XVI
La Marseillaise by François Rude
Autel de la Convention nationale or Autel républicain by François-Léon Sicard (1913), Panthéon, Paris