Bread Shortages Confront the Convention
Boissy d Anglas faced demands for food during the spring uprisings, illustrating how hunger destabilized the Thermidorian Republic.
Role range: 1789-1799
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Francois Antoine Boissy d Anglas Biography and Timeline
Follow Francois Antoine Boissy d Anglas through 16 dated historical records for France.
Francois Antoine Boissy d Anglas, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1795–1795Years on this page
1795
Constitution of Year Three Approved
Boissy d Anglas supported a new constitutional order with a bicameral legislature and five-person executive, intended to prevent concentrated authority.
Role range: 1789-1799
Council of Five Hundred Takes Shape
Boissy d Anglas supported the division of legislative power into two councils, replacing the single Convention with a more guarded constitutional structure.
Role range: 1789-1799
Deputies Resist the Prairial Insurrection
Boissy d Anglas continued presiding as insurgents invaded the Convention, and legislators struggled to restore control after the murder of deputy Feraud.
Role range: 1789-1799
Final Transfer to the Constitutional Councils
The Convention yielded authority to institutions created by the Constitution of Year III, ending three years of republican government by a single assembly.
Role range: 1789-1799
Boissy d Anglas Resists Coercive Demands
Boissy d Anglas continued at the presidential chair despite threats, refusing to accept that an armed crowd could determine the legislatures decisions.
Role range: 1795-1799
Convention Attempts to Restore Legislative Control
The parliamentary majority sought to clear the chamber and reverse decisions imposed during the invasion by armed demonstrators.
Role range: 1795-1799
Convention Strengthens Antiradical Measures
The defeat of the uprising facilitated new restrictions against militant political networks in the capital.
Role range: 1795-1799
Germinal Insurrection Fails to Secure Bread
The unsuccessful demonstration in Germinal preceded Prairial and showed that popular demands for food and democratic rights remained unresolved.
Role range: 1795-1799
Insurgents March Toward Convention
On 20 May demonstrators entered the political center demanding subsistence and the restoration of the suspended democratic constitution.
Role range: 1795-1799
National Guards Reassert Convention Authority
Forces loyal to the Convention intervened against demonstrators and helped reestablish control of the parliamentary buildings.
Role range: 1795-1799
Security Forces Confront Eastern Sections
The Convention used loyal armed units to suppress remaining resistance in the faubourgs, weakening the independent military strength of radical sections.
Role range: 1795-1799
Severed Head Displayed Before President
Insurgents displayed Ferauds severed head on a pike before the presiding Boissy d Anglas, becoming an enduring image of the uprising.
Role range: 1795-1799
Special Tribunal Judges Accused Deputies
The Convention pursued an extraordinary prosecution of Montagnard deputies accused of complicity in the uprising.
Role range: 1795-1799
Suppression Encourages Constitutional Redesign
The Prairial disturbances reinforced the belief of many deputies that the next constitution should restrain concentrated popular and parliamentary power.
Role range: 1795-1799
Thermidorian Convention Faces Bread Shortage
Food scarcity and collapsing purchasing power increased anger among Parisian workers as the Convention withdrew from strict economic controls.
Role range: 1795-1799
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