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June 1793 the Montagnards expelled the leading Girondins from the National
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He assisted in the purging of the Girondins from the National Convention in May-June
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The two former of these divisions represented the middle classes, and the latter the rabble; but the Girondins were the most powerful and popular.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Desmoulins, and a curious party called the Girondins, et cetera.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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One of the first fruits of the union between the Jacobins and the Girondins was the preparation of an insurrection.
The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876
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Lasource, Lanjuinais, Rabaut, -- Thirty-two, by the tale; all that we have known as Girondins, and more than we have known.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Undoubtedly this Trial of the Girondins is the greatest that Fouquier has yet had to do.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I commenced the "Girondins" the other day, it has for me all the exciting interest of a novel.
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"Girondins" my interest seldom flags, I read a great deal in it every day.
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I have finished the first volume of my "Girondins," am all impatience to get the next, it closed just in such an interesting part, I must send to Mrs. Leighton for the other volume as soon as possible.
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