Modérantisme

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During the

clubs, who then led the first attacks on it in 1794.

Jacobin and Cordelier orators soon demanded that the guillotine be used against those they saw as trying to stop the Revolution. One day, Carrier shouted "The monsters! They want to break down the scaffolds – but, citizens, never forget, those who want no guillotines are those who should feel that they are worthy of the guillotine!". Camille Desmoulins, who came to found the newspaper le Vieux Cordelier in which he begged for clemency with Georges Danton's consent, from then on laid himself open to their hatred and vengeance.

On 5 April 1794, the leaders of the moderate party were guillotined and modérantisme was returned to power after

were also committed by men who claimed the title of modérés, although this did not stop them carrying out excessive acts of violence.

Sources

• Elphège Boursin and Augustin Challamel (1893). Dictionnaire de la révolution française. Paris: Jouvet et cie. p. 351.