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Orphans on the Earth - Girondin Fugitives from the Terror, 1793-94 (Hardcover)
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Orphans on the Earth - Girondin Fugitives from the Terror, 1793-94 (Hardcover)
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Just as it was not foreordained that the Terror of 1793 1794 should
follow the early idealistic years of the French Revolution, neither
could it have been imagined that some of those elected deputies who
had helped to establish the new republic would become fugitives
from their own government. Yet, in May to June 1793, twenty-nine
deputies of the moderate Girondin faction were expelled from the
National Convention by the radical Jacobin leadership and placed
under house arrest. This action followed months of irreconcilable
quarrels between the Girondin and Jacobin factions. Some of the
proscribed deputies chose to remain in Paris and were subsequently
executed in October 1793. Others escaped, fleeing first to Caen in
Normandy, where they hoped to ignite a federalist revolt against
the government in Paris. When their efforts failed, a small group
of the former deputies fled to nearby Brittany and then down the
western coast to the Bordeaux area, where they found refuge near
St. Emilion. Hiding for several months in the home and attached
stone quarry of the deputy Guadet's relatives, four of these
fugitives wrote their memoirs before their presence was discovered
by one of Robespierre's agents. The memoirs of Francois Buzot,
Jerome Petion, Charles Barbaroux, and Jean-Baptiste Louvet, in
addition to correspondence between them and Jean and Manon Roland,
provide the basis for this book. This is the first book to examine
the lives of the fugitives during the period of the Terror (1793
94), after which only Louvet remained alive."
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