Reminder that the 10 thermidor was only the beginning of a purge that ended with 105 persons executed in three days and hundreds more arrested. Some committed suicide or were poisoned in jail.
The Commune was almost entirely purged:
there were 140 members on the general council on 9 thermidor
87 were guillotined
40 imprisoned
only 13 remained free
On 11 thermidor, twelve tumbrils carried 71 people to be executed. Here are their names. 12 more people were guillotined on 12 thermidor. Remember this when you read the traitorous CSP members tell you they did this to "prevent bloodshed" - when the execution toll on 11 thermidor was the biggest in one day ever.
Four months later in November the Club des Jacobins would be attacked by a right-wing militia led by Fréron, who broke the windows and doors down, beat the men, and stripped and whipped the women who were there. These women were ridiculed in crass pamphlets the following days. A deputy's wife was among them, whom Fréron had been personally targetting in his rag for weeks. The Convention punished no one but the Jacobins themselves by ordering the Club to be shut down and destroyed. A market was later built there and named to celebrate Thermidor.
The terrible winter came where tons of people starved because the new useless government of corrupt fiends lifted all regulations to "free" the market. This is the winter where Victor Hugo wrote Jean Valjean stealing bread to feed his sister's children. It's not a coincidence.
Less than a year later, in May 1795, the sans-culottes would rise for the last time in an insurrection that was utterly crushed and, with it, the popular spring of the Revolution.
The Revolution had been dying. It was now truly dead.
The next years were just a corpse they pretended was still alive.
The links to the ARBR were broken so I updated them. One still didn't work though, so I linked to an archive dot org version.
These links have all the names and short biographies of the victims of 10, 11 and 12 thermidor.
