* 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

* Alphonse De Lamartime, History of the Girondists, or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution: From Unpublished Sources.

On 2 June 1793, in the context of Jean-Paul Marat's anti-Girondist instigations, he proposed a decree of accusation against the Girondists ; a week later, at the Jacobin Club, he outlined a programme which the Convention was to fulfil soon after: the expulsion of foreigners, the establishment of a tax on the rich, the deprivation of the rights of citizenship of all " anti-social " men, the creation of a French Revolutionary Army, the monitoring of all officers and ci-devant nobles ( i. e.: those of aristocratic families who no longer held status after the abolition of feudalism ), and the death penalty for unsuccessful generals fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars.

He attached himself to the Girondists, whose vague deism, sentimental humanitarianism and ardent republicanism he fully shared, and from March to November 1792 he published, at Jean Marie Roland's expense, a bi-weekly journal-affiche, of which the title, La Sentinelle, proclaimed its mission to open all of Europe to the Enlightenment at a time when, after the Habsburg declaration of war on France and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a schism between the king and his subjects had become obvious.

He accused the Girondists of relations with the Bourbons, then turned against Maximilien Robespierre, who had him expelled from the Jacobin Club for his conduct as commissioner of the Convention with the French Revolutionary Army troops in La Rochelle.

* the period from approximately 1790 to 1792 when the politics of the liberal Girondists and Feuillants dominated the early portion of the French Revolution.

Maximin Isnard ( November 16, 1755 Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes-March 12, 1825 Grasse ), French revolutionary, was a dealer in perfumery at Draguignan when he was elected deputy for the département of the Var to the Legislative Assembly, where he joined the Girondists.

He wrote Histoire des Girondins in 1847 in praise of the Girondists.

First imprisoned in Paris, he was later transferred to the Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, then brought back to Paris in October, during the Reign of Terror, the second phase of which had begun the preceding June with the arrest of the Girondists ( Girondins ).

The Left consisted of about 330 Jacobins, a term which still included the now-emergent party afterwards known as the Girondins or Girondists – so termed because several of their leaders came from the region of the Gironde in southern France.

Members and adherents of the Gironde are variously referred to as " Girondists " (" Girondins ") or " Brissotins "

The Left, generally dominant during this period, consisted of about 330 " Jacobins ", a term which still included the party afterwards known as the Girondins or Girondists.

There were three competing views on which direction France should go, embodied by three political parties: the moderate royalists or Feuillants, republican Girondists, and the more radical Montagnards, led by Maximilien Robespierre.

The Girondists were a group of loosely-affiliated individuals rather than an organised political party, and the name was at first informally applied because the most prominent exponents of their point of view were deputies to the States-general from the department of Gironde in southwest France.

Some prominent Girondists were Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Marie Roland and his wife Madame Roland.

Montagnards and Girondists alike were fundamentally opposed to the monarchy ; both were democrats as well as republicans ; both were prepared to appeal to force in order to realise their ideals ; despite being accused of " federalism ", the Girondists desired as little as the Montagnards to break up the unity of France.

The Girondists were radicals, doctrinaires and theorists rather than men of action.

Girondist and historian Pierre Claude François Daunou argues in his Mémoires that the Girondists were too cultivated and too polished to retain their popularity for long in times of disturbance, and so they were the more inclined to work for the establishment of order, which would mean the guarantee of their own power.

Step by step he was led on to tolerate violence and crime, to the excesses of which his eyes were only opened by the September Massacres, and which ultimately overwhelmed the party of Girondists which he led.

The decree of accusation was voted, and the Girondists were proscribed.

Early on the morning of 31 October 1793 the Girondists were conveyed to the scaffold, singing on the way the Marseillaise and keeping up the strain till one by one they were guillotined.

The first years of the Convention were the height of the importance of the revolutionary political clubs such as the < span lang =" fr "> Jacobins </ span > and < span lang =" fr "> Cordeliers </ span >; the informally constituted < span lang =" fr "> Girondists </ span >, although past the peak of their power, were also an important factor.

The chief point of distinction was that the Girondists were mainly theorists and thinkers, whereas the Mountain consisted almost entirely of uncompromising men of action.

During their struggle with the Girondists, the Montagnards gained the upper hand in the Jacobin Club, and for a time " Jacobin " and " Montagnard " were synonymous terms.

On 2 June 1793 the Girondists were displaced by the Jacobins and Matthews fell under suspicion for his Girondist associations and also because he was suspected of being a double agent.

They were mainly written in the various hiding-places in which Louvet took refuge, and they give a vivid picture of the sufferings of the exiled Girondists.

After being admitted to the bar he travelled a circuit for a few years, but took an active part in the politics of the time, and was sent with James Watt Jr., son and heir of the inventor James Watt, by the democratic clubs of England to those of France, where his sympathies were with the Girondists.

The Feuillants began to lose this political clout by early autmun however, a matter that was complicated by disagreements that arose with the growing influence of Jacques Pierre Brissot and his supporters, known as the Girondists.

These events meant a change of direction from the political and constitutional perspective of the Girondists to a more social approach given by the Commune, as Cambon declared on 27 August:

* Madame Roland, the political salon that was the resort of the Girondists at the first stages of the Revolution.

The Mountain and the Girondists did consist of individuals with similar views and agendas who socialized together and often coordinated political plans.

He was included in the proscription of the Girondists, whose political opinions he shared, and was guillotined in Paris during the Reign of Terror, the same day as fellow Constitutional Committee member Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, and defense attourney for Louis XVI, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes.

" The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) and Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with either faction.

In the early 1790s, concerned at the likelihood of war between Britain and France, Matthews travelled to France with the radical David Williams who was acquainted with such Girondists as Jacques Pierre Brissot and Le Brun.

He voted for the execution of King Louis XVI of France, was one of the first to call for the arrest of the Duke of Orléans, and took a prominent part in the overthrow of the Girondists ( on 31 May ).

" The same year, the Girondists rose to power in France and appointed Genêt to the post of minister to the United States.

In the Legislative Assembly, the Girondists represented the principle of democratic revolution within and of patriotic defiance to the European powers.

The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) in the center, a vocal group of Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with any of those factions.

Dumouriez needed people in the Legislative Assembly to support him, and the Girondists needed a general to give them legitimacy in the army.

The Girondists, who had been the radicals of the Legislative Assembly ( 1791-1792 ), became the conservatives of the Convention ( 1792-1795 ).

In 1791 he represented Draguignan in the Legislative Assembly, but after the fall of his party, the Girondists, he went into hiding.

Elected in 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned himself with the Girondists, but after his election to the National Convention on 6 September 1792, he sided with the Montagnards.

In 1790 he was made administrator of the Gironde, and in 1791 president of the criminal tribunal, being elected to the Legislative Assembly as one of the group of deputies known subsequently as Girondists.