The city of Caen became the seat of a "federalist" organization formed in reaction to this group's downfall, an event resulting from the successful intrigues against them by the Club of Cordeliers. Counting Dumouriez, Condorcet, and Carnot among their members, they formed around a platform of foreign war, succesfully engineering the invasion of Aus
The city of Caen became the seat of a "federalist" organization formed in reaction to this group's downfall, an event resulting from the successful intrigues against them by the Club of Cordeliers. Counting Dumouriez, Condorcet, and Carnot among their members, they formed around a platform of foreign war, succesfully engineering the invasion of Austria. In 1793, the fall from grace of ex-Minister of War Jean-Nicolas Pache destroyed their majority in the Legislative Assembly, and forty of them were guillotined during that year's Halloween. Sometimes known by the name of their leader Jacques Pierre Brissot, they sat to the right of The Plain in the assembly and opposed the Jacboins. FTP, name this moderate French Revolutionary faction.
The city of Caen became the seat of a "federalist" organization formed in reaction to this group's downfall, an event resulting from the successful intrigues against them by the Club of Cordeliers.
Girondins [or Girondists; accept Brissotins before "Brissot" is read] Its Cogge ships helped it gain power in the region, and by 1300 it had established