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The Indulgents was a political faction formed around 1793 and centered around Georges Danton.[1]
During the French Revolution, what was previously referred to as modérantisme changed after the fall of the Girondins, when revolutionaries around Danton and Camille Desmoulins also began to want to slow down the revolution in its violence. Another two fanous Dantonists were Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles and Fabre d'Églantine.[2] Even not a Dantonist but that had close relations with Danton was Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. The name "Indulgents" was a derogatory term for Robespierre.
The movement emerged in the summer of 1793 as the moderate wing of the Cordeliers. At the same time, a group around Hebert developed in the other direction (Hebertists), which also met with the displeasure of the Jacobins, which also led to their destruction, two months before the Indulgents (Feb. '94 to Apr. '94).
The Indulgents defended the rule of law, freedom of speech and private property, and favoured constitutional monarchy.[3]
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edit- ^ Rudé, George (1976). Robespierre : portrait of a Revolutionary Democrat. New York: Viking Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0670601288.
- ^ https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/H%C3%A9rault_de_S%C3%A9chelles,_Marie_Jean
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/danton-the-gentle-giant-of-terror-by-david-lawday-1778005.html
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