bunniesandbeheadings:Because Marat was still leading a clandestine existence, the extent of his dire
bunniesandbeheadings:Because Marat was still leading a clandestine existence, the extent of his direct involvement in planning the insurrection of 10 August is unclear, but the moving spirits among the organizers were staunch People’s Friend partisans such as the Cordeliers’ Panis, Garin, Heron, and Santerre. Marat was meeting with them and with groups of fédérés. His published calls to insurrection certainly made a signifigant contribution to the mobilization…The insurrection of 10 August constituted a social revolution of the sort that Marat had long called for. The new Commune had been formed by representative of the forty-eight sections chosen without regard for the exchusionary distinction between “active” and “passive” citizens. The Feuillants and Brissotins thereby lost thir artificial electoral advantage…The sansculottes were for the first time participating in the exercise of real power. The formerly disenfranchised passive citizens were passive no longer.Clifford D. Conner, Jean-Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary -- source link
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