Chapter VIII: The Fall of the Gironde 182-207

The Elections of 1792.--Parties in the Convention.--The
Girondists and their advisers.--Madame Roland.--The part
played by women in the French Revolution.--Difference
between the Girondists and the Jacobins.--Rather one of
conduct than of principle.--No place in the Revolution for
the Girondists as a separate party.--Their only distinctive
characteristics an idealised republicanism and a policy of
war.--Beginning of the struggle between the two parties.--Trial
and death of the King.--Demoralisation of politics.--The
Girondists lose ground, especially in Paris.--The war
after Valmy.--Dumouriez' defeat at Neerwinden.--His
desertion.--Important decrees of the Convention in the
spring of 1793, preparing the instruments of the Terror.--Economic
measures.--Growth of the influence of the
Jacobins.--Rising in La Vendée.--Organisation of the
Jacobin forces.--The Girondists, unprepared but alarmed,
attack the Jacobins in April and May.--Warnings of
Dutard.--State of feeling in Paris.--Arrest of Hébert and
Jacobin rising.--The 31st May and 2nd June.--Dangers of
the Jacobin Government.--Its success on all sides.--Fate
of the Girondists and others.