Thermidorian Deputies Overthrow Jacobin Leadership
Tallien helped unite Convention opponents against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor. The arrests destroyed the political leadership most closely associated with the Jacobins.
Role range: 1793-1799
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Jean Lambert Tallien Biography and Timeline
Follow Jean Lambert Tallien through 34 dated historical records for France.
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1794
Thermidor Crisis
Tallien attacks Robespierre before the National Convention and helps start the revolt of 9 Thermidor
Role range: 1789-1799
Thermidor Crisis
Tallien attacks Robespierre before the National Convention and helps start the revolt of 9 Thermidor.
Role range: 1789-1799
Thermidorian Reaction
Tallien becomes one of the visible leaders of the victorious Thermidorian deputies
Role range: 1789-1799
Thermidorian Reaction
Tallien becomes one of the visible leaders of the victorious Thermidorian deputies.
Role range: 1789-1799
Convention Orders Jacobin Club Closed
The Convention closed the Jacobin Club amid the Thermidorian reaction. The decision ended the leading Parisian society's central role in revolutionary political mobilization.
Role range: 1793-1799
Campaign Against Jacobin Political Clubs
Tallien encouraged the reaction against radical clubs as the Convention's new balance of power threatened institutions previously associated with the Terror.
Role range: 1789-1799
Challenge to Robespierre on Nine Thermidor
Tallien attacked Robespierre in the Convention as deputies joined to overthrow the political leadership associated with the Terror.
Role range: 1789-1799
Convention Restricts Independent Commune Power
After the defeat of the Robespierrists the Convention reduced the Paris Commune's capacity to challenge national government. Municipal autonomy was curtailed under the Thermidorian settlement.
Role range: 1793-1799
Thermidorian Convention dismantles municipal power
Tallien and other victors curtailed the structures that had enabled the Commune to pressure national representatives. The reaction aimed to prevent another insurrectionary municipal government.
Role range: 1793-1799
Anti Jacobin Reaction
Tallien supports the campaign against surviving Robespierrists and radical Jacobins
Role range: 1789-1799
Anti Jacobin Reaction
Tallien supports the campaign against surviving Robespierrists and radical Jacobins.
Role range: 1789-1799
1795
Return to Committee of Public Safety
Tallien returned to the Committee of Public Safety as Thermidorian leaders confronted renewed unrest in Paris.
Role range: 1795-1799
Mission to Army of the West
Tallien was sent to the Army of the West during the continuing struggle against royalist and counter-revolutionary forces.
Role range: 1795-1799
Quiberon Expedition
Tallien observed operations connected with the defeat of the royalist expedition at Quiberon and supported severe measures against captured participants.
Role range: 1795-1799
Election to Council of Five Hundred
Tallien was elected to the Council of Five Hundred by several departments and continued his legislative career under the Directory.
Role range: 1795-1799 – 1795-1798
Commission after Vendemiaire
After the Vendemiaire uprising, Tallien joined a five-member commission charged with proposing additional measures for public security.
Role range: 1795-1799
Thermidorian Deputies Confront New Popular Rising
Tallien supported repression of renewed sans-culotte pressure in 1795 as the Convention moved away from the political methods of Year II.
Role range: 1789-1799
Early debate over royalist resistance Council of Five Hundred
Following the Vendémiaire rising, deputies confronted the problem of reconciling public order with political liberties. The new chamber inherited a capital in which armed groups had recently challenged national institutions.
Role range: 1795-1799
Official opening of lower chamber Council of Five Hundred
The Council of Five Hundred began legislative business in the autumn after the Convention's dissolution. Its members had to establish parliamentary procedures for a constitution unfamiliar with two separate chambers.
Role range: 1795-1799
Tallien joins new lower council Council of Five Hundred
Tallien entered the Council of Five Hundred after serving in the Convention. His legislative continuation reflected rules reserving most initial seats for outgoing revolutionary deputies.
Role range: 1795-1799
1796
Babeuf conspiracy prompts security measures Council of Five Hundred
The discovery of the Conspiracy of Equals intensified demands for internal security. Deputies weighed the threat of revolutionary radicalism against fears that political prosecution might revive the Terror.
Role range: 1795-1799
Electoral eligibility questions arise Council of Five Hundred
The lower council encountered disputes about the qualifications of elected representatives and participating citizens. Property and residency rules exposed tensions between universal rights language and restricted suffrage.
Role range: 1795-1799
Press restrictions divide republican deputies Council of Five Hundred
Newspaper agitation exposed the fragile relationship between freedom of expression and security under the Directory. The Five Hundred became a forum for arguments about suppressing monarchist or neo-Jacobin publications.
Role range: 1795-1799
Territorial mandate crisis enters council debate Council of Five Hundred
The failure of the mandat territorial compounded inflation and public distrust. Members of the Five Hundred faced pressure to find a means of restoring payments and fiscal stability.
Role range: 1795-1799
1797
Fructidor Moderation
After the coup of Fructidor, Tallien attempted to moderate the treatment of some politicians targeted by the victorious Directory.
Role range: 1795-1799 – 1795-1798
Debate over political deportations Council of Five Hundred
The Fructidor legislation sent selected opponents into exile or deportation without the protections of ordinary trials. The Five Hundred's participation marked a sharp retreat from its constitutional safeguards.
Role range: 1795-1799
Legislative response to royalist electoral gains Council of Five Hundred
Deputies elected in Year V strengthened conservative influence in the lower chamber. Supporters of the Directory suspected that their opponents intended to weaken laws protecting the republic.
Role range: 1795-1799
Lower council endorses election cancellations Council of Five Hundred
After Fructidor, deputies approved exceptional measures that overturned results from departments judged politically suspect. The actions kept the legislature aligned with the victorious Directors at the cost of electoral independence.
Role range: 1795-1799
Restrictions on electoral candidates scrutinized Council of Five Hundred
Disputes following Fructidor illustrated how eligibility rules could be used to remove or exclude political opponents. Members of the Five Hundred confronted the legitimacy of a chamber transformed through exceptional decrees.
Role range: 1795-1799
1798
Departure from Council of Five Hundred
Tallien left the Council of Five Hundred at the end of his legislative term.
Role range: 1795-1799 – 1795-1798
Egypt Expedition
Tallien joined the Egyptian expedition as a civilian intellectual and later participated in the Institut d'Egypte and its publications.
Role range: 1795-1799
Floréal vote excludes elected Jacobins Council of Five Hundred
The Law of 22 Floréal led to the exclusion of numerous newly elected deputies linked to the neo-Jacobin opposition. The measure demonstrated that electoral results were vulnerable to legislative annulment.
Role range: 1795-1799
Tallien completes council term Council of Five Hundred
Tallien's tenure in the Council of Five Hundred ended during the rotation of representatives. His departure illustrated how the constitutional cycle could remove even prominent former Convention leaders.
Role range: 1795-1799
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