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Convention Supremacy

France · Revolution / Revolution of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1793Date range
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1793

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne29 December 1793

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Billaud-Varenne argued that the National Convention alone should direct the revolutionary government.

Names involved

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne

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