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Festival of Reason in Notre–Dame. November 10, 1793
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Chaumette, Speech at City Hall Denouncing Women’s Political Activism (17 November 1793) November 17, 1793
When a group of women appeared at City Hall wearing red liberty caps, Pierre–Gaspard Chaumette denounced them and all political activism by women. He held out the examples of Madame Roland and Olympe de Gouges as warnings.
The Pennsylvania Gazette: Free blacks and mulattos flee (4 December 1793) December 4, 1793
Free blacks and mulattos also fled the uprising. Mulattos could own slaves and plantations, and many of them did. Free blacks often manned the militias used to hunt down runaway slaves. Like the white settlers, both groups therefore had reason to…
Although it continues sporadically, the important revolt in the Vendée is repressed. December 12, 1793
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Revolution Devours Its Own—Le Vieux Cordelier December 15, 1793
Despite the consolidation of power in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety and the creation of Revolutionary Tribunals across France to eliminate traitors to the Republic, the Convention continued to worry about conspiracies even among its…
Robespierre delivers an important report on the principles of revolutionary government, which he describes as a necessary and provisional form of war against the enemies of liberty, to be distinguished from constitutional government, which conserves and protects liberty once firmly and peacefully established. December 25, 1793
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