The Plain
The Plain La Plaine | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 6 September 1791 |
| Dissolved | 2 November 1795 |
| Headquarters | Tuileries Palace,[citation needed] Paris |
| Newspaper | Journal des débats[citation needed] |
| Ideology | Political syncretism |
| Colors | Grey |
The Plain (French: La Plaine), also known as The Marsh (French: Le Marais), was the majority of independent deputies in the French National Convention during the French Revolution.[1][2][3][4] They sat between the Girondists on their right and Montagnards on their left. Their name arises from the fact their benches were by the debating floor, lower down from the Montagnards.[3][4] Its members were also known as Maraisards, or derogatorily Toads (French: "crapauds du Marais") as toads live in marshes.[5]
None of these three groups was an
Nearly all those elected to the
Later in 1794 disaffected members of the Mountain led by Jean-Lambert Tallien made a pact with leaders of the Plain Julien-François Palasne de Champeaux, François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas and Pierre-Toussaint Durand de Maillane to end the Terror,[9][10][11] ultimately inaugurating the Thermidorian Reaction.
Other notable members in 1792 included
Electoral results
| Legislative Assembly | |||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1791 | 1,978,000 (1st) | 46.3 | 345 / 745
|
New
|
|
| National Convention | |||||
| 1792 | 1,747,200 (1st) | 51.9 | 389 / 749
|
 44 |
|
| Legislative Body | |||||
1795
|
Did not participate | Did not participate | 200 / 750
|
 189 |
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès |
References
Notes
- ^ Gabourd, Amédée (1859). Histoire de la révolution et de l'empire (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Jacques Lecoffre et Cie. p. 4.
- ^ Guadet, J (1889). Les Girondins: leur vie privée, leur vie publique, leur proscription et leur mort (in French). Paris: Perrin et Cie. p. 244.
- ^ ISBN 0-399-11022-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-394-55948-7.
- ^ Gabourd 1859, p. 456.
- ^ a b c d Llewellyn, Jennifer; Thompson, Steve (August 13, 2020). "Girondins and Montagnards". Alpha History. Retrieved April 16, 2021
- ^ Schama 1989, p. 661.
- ^ Gershoy, Leo (1962). Bertrand Barère: A Reluctant Terrorist. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 156.
- ^ Durand de Maillane, Pierre Toussaint (1825). Histoire de la Convention nationale (in French). Paris: Baudouin frères. p. 199.
- ^ Vivien, L. (1842). P.M. Pourrat freres (ed.). Histoire generale de la revolution francaise, de l'empire, de la Restauration, de la monarchie de 1830, jusques et compris 1841 (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Bourgogne et Martinet. pp. 317–8.
- ^ Mathiez, Albert (1985). La Révolution française: La Terreur (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Éditions Denoël. pp. 242–3. Retrieved April 16, 2021
- ^ a b Gabourd 1859, p. 7.
Bibliography
- Will and Ariel Durant (1975). The Age of Napoleon. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Sylvia Neely (2008). A Concise History of the French Revolution. Lanham – Boulder – New York – Toronto – Plymouth, United Kingdom: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Simon Schama (1989). Citizens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
