bunniesandbeheadings:Robespierre played no part in the military preparations for the siege of the Tu
bunniesandbeheadings:Robespierre played no part in the military preparations for the siege of the Tuileries; this was not a role that suited his talents. But the part he played in the Jacobin Club had been of prime importance; and on the afternoon of the 10th (after the fighting had stopped) he attended his section - the Section des Piques, in the Place Vendome - and was elected as its representative on the general council of the “Revolutionary Commune,” which had been in session since the previous night…It initiated measures of “public safety”, closing the city’s gates and collaborating with Danton, the new Minister of Justice, in rounding up suspects and carrying out thousands of house arrests; it insisted that a revolutionary tribunal be set up and that the King and his family should be interned in the Temple prison, and it imposed on the Assembly Robespierre’s demand that a National Convention should be elected by male adult suffrage to replace it and proceed to declare the Republic.George Rude, Robespierre: Portrait of a Revolutionary Democrat -- source link
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