#girondists

[elisacoyote]

Madame Roland and François Buzot :3 Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière (1754 –1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland, was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. ‘Manon’ was an intelligent, educated and courageous woman. She supported Girondists. François Buzot was a her good friend.

[elisacoyote]

François Buzot (1760-1794) French revolutionary, he was elected deputy to the National Convention, and joined the Girondists under the influence of his friend Madame Roland. He had a sensitive character and loved nature and art 💐 🌹 François committed suicide...

[siegeperilousgalahad]

Marat’s assassination

As the Girondin party in Normandy stumbled and fell apart, a young girl from Caen, Charlotte Corday, headed to Paris, either to save or avenge those she considered martyrs of the Republic. She whipped up her enthusiasm herself by admiring the heroines in the plays of Corneille.

And believing that Marat was the genius behind despotism, anarchy, and murder, she had resolved to kill him. The evening of Sunday July 13, 1793 she insisted she be received by him. He was in the bathtub he stayed in much of the time, since an inflammatory illness devoured him. A plank placed across it held up the inkwell and the sheets of paper he still blackened with his ideas and his fever. She spoke a few words to him and stuck a knife in his heart. He gave out a cry, called for his companion Simone Evrard, and died.

Charlotte Corday, having made the sacrifice of her own life in order to sacrifice a life she judged villainous, didn’t even think of fleeing. Before the revolutionary tribunal she explained her act in a few clear words of a heroic and fatal simplicity that attested to the petty proportions she had reduced the problem of the Revolution. Beautiful, young, modest, and proud, wrapped for her journey to the gallows in the red shirt of parricides, she left in the eyes of the people a strange vision of nobility, heroism, and blood, and in many hearts an unknown disquiet. She had killed Marat, but above all she had killed the Gironde. Who could take seriously the Girondin declamations against the Maratists and the assassins? After the assassinated Lepeletier, the assassinated Marat. It was those denounced as murderers who were struck in the heart. Even among those who were prejudiced against Marat anger and hatred were succeeded by surprise and a kind of pity. One of the gears of Girondin propaganda was smashed.

Jean Jaures - A Socialist History of  the French Revolution (translated by Mitchell Abidor)

[spiffylionturtle]

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it. Death in the air I don’t care I love the smell of it. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but guillotines excite me.

Maximillian Robespierre

[jeanpaulmarat]

The Girondists on the way to Execution Illustration from 'Hutchinson's History of the Nations' (lithograph) by Karl Theodor von Piloty (1826-86). 21 Girondists, accused of being accomplices of La Fayette, Philippe d'Orleans and of Dumouriez, are on their way to execution.

[citoyenneprzybyszewska2]

The Girondists the day before their execution. 

 I don’t know who is who, but look at these two guys making out on the left. 

[brof]

Girondists monument - Bordeaux

[frenchrevolutionsocials9seycove]

Girondists

One of the most important clubs in New France

Though they wanted sweeping changes in the government, they were viewed as too conservative by some revolutionaries