Girondins

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The Girondins were a prominent moderate republican political group during the French Revolution, known for advocating war against foreign monarchies and opposing the radical Jacobins.

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Label Occurrences
Girondins canonical 38
Girondin faction 6
Girondin 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political faction
revolutionary group
activeInPeriod French Revolution
advocated war against foreign monarchies
associatedWithCity Bordeaux
associatedWithSocialBase commercial and professional classes
provincial bourgeoisie
country France
downfallEvent Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
fateOfLeaders many leaders executed by guillotine in 1793
heldPowerUntil June 1793
historicalReputation often contrasted with radical Jacobins
seen as moderate republicans
ideology republicanism
influentialPeriod 1791–1793
language French
member Armand Gensonné
Charles Barbaroux
Jacques-Pierre Brissot
Jean Antoine Debry
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
Jean-Marie Roland
Madame Roland
Élie Guadet
surface form: Marguerite-Élie Guadet

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
Thomas Paine
surface form: Thomas Paine (sympathizer and associated deputy)

Élie Guadet
namedAfter Girondin deputies from the Gironde department
notableTrial Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
surface form: trial of the Girondins (1793)
opposed Parisian sans-culotte radicalism
radicalization of the Revolution
opposedBy Jacobin Club
surface form: Jacobins
opposes Jacobin Club
surface form: Jacobins
politicalBody Legislative Assembly (France)
surface form: Legislative Assembly of France

French National Convention
surface form: National Convention of France
politicalGoal constitutional republic
expansion of revolutionary principles through war
politicalPosition moderate
positionOnCentralization favored decentralization
opposed dominance of Paris
positionOnMonarchy favored constitutional monarchy early in the Revolution
later supported a republic
regionOfOrigin Gironde estuary
surface form: Gironde
repressedBy Committee of Public Safety
Montagnards
supported French Revolutionary Wars
economic liberalism
freedom of the press
representative government

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The Plain locatedBetween Girondins
this entity surface form: The Girondins
The Plain opposedTo Girondins
this entity surface form: The Girondins
The Plain sometimesAlliedWith Girondins
this entity surface form: The Girondins
The Plain influencedBy Girondins