Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
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The insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (French: Journées du 31 mai et du 2 juin 1793), during the French Revolution, started after the Paris commune demanded that 22 Girondin deputies and members of the Commission of Twelve should be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Jean-Paul Marat led the attack on the representatives in the National Convention, who in January had voted against the execution of the King and since then had paralyzed the convention. It ended after thousands of armed citizens surrounded the convention to force it to deliver the deputies denounced by the Commune.The insurrection resulted in the fall of 29 Girondins and two ministers under pressure of the sans-culottes, Jacobins, and Montagnards.
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Hanriot confronts deputies of the Convention. | |||||||
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François Hanriot Jean-Paul Marat Maximilien Robespierre Jacques Hébert Jean-François Varlet Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Bertrand Barère |
Marguerite-Élie Guadet Henri Grégoire Étienne Clavière † Jean-Denis Lanjuinais Maximin Isnard Claude Fauchet Pierre Henri Hélène Marie Lebrun-Tondu |
Due to its impact and importance, the insurrection stands as one of the three great popular insurrections of the French Revolution, following those of 14 July 1789 (the storming of the Bastille) and 10 August 1792.[1] The principal conspirators were the Enragés: Claude-Emmanuel Dobsen and Jean-François Varlet. Jean-Nicolas Pache and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette led the march on the convention.