Histoire Des Girondins (3 Vols) (1865-1866)

Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis De Prat De

Armand Le Chevalier, 1865

3 volume set. Bound in leather over marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Edges and leather chipped. 

"Girondin, also called Brissotin, a label applied to a loose grouping of republican politicians, some of them originally from the department of the Gironde, who played a leading role in the Legislative Assembly from October 1791 to September 1792 during the French Revolution. Lawyers, intellectuals and journalists, the Girondins attracted a following of businessmen, merchants, industrialists, and financiers. Historians have disagreed about whether they truly constituted an organized group, and the term 'Girondins' was rarely used prior to 1793. Their opponents often called them Brissotins, after their most prominent spokesman, Jacques-Pierre Brissot. The Girondins first emerged as harsh critics of the court. Through the oratory of Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud and Brissot, the Girondins inspired the measures taken against the emigres and anti-Revolutionary priests in October and November of 1791. From the end of 1791, under the leadership of Brissot, they supported foreign war as a means to unite the people behind the cause of the Revolution. 

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