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13 Vendémiaire 18 Fructidor 9 Thermidor aristocratic army assignat August Babeuf Barère Barras Bonaparte bourgeois bourgeoisie Brumaire Carnot Chouans Church clergy Committee of Public Constituent Assembly Constitution Convention Councils coup d'état crisis Danton Declaration decree demands deputies Directory economic eighteenth century elected electoral emigrés Enlightenment Estates-General executive factions favour Feuillants Floréal force France French Germinal Girondins Hôtel hundred insurrection Italy Jacobin Jacobin Club July June king land liberal Louis XVI Marat March military moderate monarchy Montagnards movement National Guard Necker nobility nobles October Old Regime organised Paris Parisian parlements patriotism peasants political popular Prairial priests privileged provinces Public Safety reform representatives on mission represented Republic republican Reubell Revolution revolutionary Robespierre royal royalist sans-culottes Sections seigneurial September Sieyès social society Talleyrand Tallien Terror Thermidoreans Third Estate tion tradition troops Tuileries uprising Vendéan Vendémiaire Ventôse Versailles victory voted