Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III
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The insurrection of 1 Prairial Year III was a popular revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was one of the last popular revolts of the French Revolution.[1][2][3]
Félix Auvray, 1831
References
[edit]- ^ Rude 1967, pp. 142, 152–155, 159.
- ^ Lefebvre 1963, pp. 126, 142–144.
- ^ Woronoff 1984, p. 19.
Sources
[edit]- Lefebvre, Georges (1963). The French Revolution: from 1793 to 1799. Vol. II. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-02519-X.
- Rude, Georges (1967). The Crowd in the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-00370-5.
- Lefebvre, Georges (1964). The Thermidorians & the Directory. New York: Random House.
- Woronoff, Denis (1984). The Thermidorean regime and the Directory, 1794–1799. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-28917-3.
- Soboul, Albert (1974). The French Revolution:: 1787–1799. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-47392-2.
- Hampson, Norman (1988). A Social History of the French Revolution. Routledge: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-710-06525-6.