Montagnards

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The Montagnards were the radical Jacobin-led political group that dominated the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, advocating extreme egalitarian policies and centralization of power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French Revolutionary faction
political faction
radical political group
activeInPeriod French Revolution
advocated centralization of power
extreme egalitarian policies
price controls
alsoKnownAs La Montagne
The Mountain
associatedWithEvent Reign of Terror
basedIn National Convention
controlledBody Committee of Public Safety
country France
declineEvent Thermidorian Reaction
dominated Reign of Terror
fate lost power after fall of Robespierre in July 1794
favored centralized revolutionary government
governmentTypeSupported republic
historicalSignificance key drivers of the radical phase of the French Revolution
ideology Jacobinism
radical republicanism
languageOfName French
leader Maximilien Robespierre
nameOrigin their high seats in the National Convention
notableMember Bertrand Barère
Georges Danton
Jacques Hébert
Jean-Paul Marat
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Maximilien Robespierre
opposed Girondins
monarchy
opposedPolicy federalism in France
policyOrientation anti-aristocratic measures
economic interventionism
politicalPosition far-left
religiousPolicy de-Christianization campaigns (in part of the faction)
roleInGovernment dominant faction in the National Convention during the Terror
socialBase Parisian sans-culottes
radical urban workers
supported execution of Louis XVI
strong central government
supportedPolicy Law of 22 Prairial
Law of Suspects
levée en masse
maximum on prices
timePeriod 1792–1794


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