CHAPTER X

FROM THE 9TH THERMIDOR TO THE 1ST PRAIRIAL, YEAR III. (20TH MAY, 1795). EPOCH OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

The convention, after the fall of Robespierre; party of the committees; Thermidorian party; their constitution and object--Decay of the democratic party of the committees--Impeachment of Lebon and Carrier--State of Paris --The Jacobins and the Faubourgs declare for the old committees; the jeunesse dorée, and the sections for the Thermidorians--Impeachment of Billaud-Varennes, Collot-d'Herbois, Barrère, and Vadier--Movement of Germinal--Transportation of the accused, and of a few of the Mountain, their partisans--Insurrection of the 1st Prairial--Defeat of the democratic party; disarming of the Faubourgs--The lower class is excluded from the government, deprived of the constitution of '93, and loses its material power.