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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained … historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. … Women … Salon … Letters … travelogue … French Revolution … Girondins … napoleonic era … National specificities … sociable spaces … Helen Maria Williams …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… mesures révolutionnaires. Son mari, le marquis de Sillery, est élu député. Le duc d’Orléans fréquente alors de futurs Girondins comme Pétion, Barère ou Brissot, qui sont reçus le dimanche à Bellechasse. Enthousiasmée par la prise de la …

Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… They combined with tensions over grain policies and culminated in the expulsion of the brissotins (later known as the Girondins) from the Paris club in the autumn of 1792. This purge polarised the provincial clubs, which felt forced to … ‘sans-culotte’ movement on the matter and pushed for state intervention. In September 1793, three months after the Girondins were purged from the National Convention, Jacobin legislators passed the Law of the Maximum, which set …