Indulgent

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As Indulgenten (fr. Indulgents , literally the indulgent) a moderate cleavage was Cordeliers in the French Revolution called.

Among them were Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins . Their goals were to end the terror and to strive for peace in the First Coalition War . This attitude, branded as a betrayal of the Revolution by the other Cordeliers, led in the summer of 1793 to the division of the Cordeliers into the moderate indulgents and the more radical Hébertists under Jacques-René Hébert . In addition, the indulgent came into opposition to Robespierre , from whom the derogatory term "indulgent" comes (they probably called themselves "Dantonists").

Desmoulins began on December 5, 1793 with the publication of the magazine Le Vieux Cordelier , with which the indulgent sought to influence public opinion. At the beginning of 1794 the political pressure on the indulgent grew. On March 30th (10th Germinal) the leaders of the group were arrested and 3 days later the trial of Danton and his supporters before the Revolutionary Tribunal began with the reading of the indictment by Public Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville . In particular, they were accused of having had secret contacts with Charles-François Dumouriez , a former revolutionary general who defected to the enemy coalition forces. On April 5th (16th Germinal) the death sentence was passed against Danton and his supporters. It was executed by the guillotine that same day .

In addition to Danton, the defendants Fabre d'Églantine , François Chabot , Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles , Claude Basire , Joseph Delaunay , Camille Desmoulins, Pierre Philippeaux , the Abbé d'Espagnac , Junius and Emmanuel Frey , François-Joseph Westermann and Jean- François Delacroix on the scaffold. With that the group of indulgents was destroyed.

Their initial competitors, the Hébertists, had already been convicted and executed on March 24th (4th Germinal) at Robespierre's instigation. Robespierre himself only survived the elimination of his opponents by a few months; he was the victim of the 9th Thermidor coup on July 28th .

literature

  • Markov / Soboul: The great revolution of the French Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-05-000894-6
  • Furet / Richet: The French Revolution Fischer Verlag GmbH Frankfurt / Main 1968