Girondins

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Charlotte Smith
It was on 2 November that she sought to intervene in the course of French politics by writing to Joel Barlow , probably hoping through him to influence Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Girondins .
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
192-3
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
She thus became a contributor to the restructuring that was to transform the whole fabric of French civil life.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
174
She was given this opportunity by friends among the feminist and reformist Girondins ; the...

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31 May-2 June 1793: Power was seized in France in a coup d'état...

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31 May-2 June 1793

Power was seized in France in a coup d'état by the faction called La Montagne or the Montagnards (mountaineers, from their seats high up in the assembly).
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
18

13 July 1793: Charlotte Corday, a Royalist from Normandy,...

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13 July 1793

Charlotte Corday , a Royalist from Normandy, assassinated Marat as he lay in his bath.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
192-4
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
64
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
206

8 November 1793: Manon Roland, formerly regarded as a leader...

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8 November 1793

Manon Roland , formerly regarded as a leader of the Girondins or moderate revolutionaries (often known as Madame Roland), was guillotined in Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
208
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
154

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