The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde

Duverger and the Jacobins

“…The deadly struggle with the Girondins was to culminate in the ultimate denial of parliamentary sovereignty on the part of the Jacobins. The insurrection 'against the corrupt deputies' that they had announced and legitimized beforehand was successful on 2 June 1793, when the Convention eventually yielded to brute force and amputated itself by voting the arrest of the leading Girondins (Maintenant 1984: 92, 95;Slavin 1986). It would live henceforth in fear of a repetition and accept its gradual bloodletting as a lesser evil.…”