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Municipality declares martial law: Repression threatens radicals

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Municipality declares martial law: Repression threatens radicals

Danton, Georges Jacques · Paris · Cordeliers leader

The declaration of martial law targeted the kind of mass politics cultivated by Danton's Cordeliers associates. It announced that municipal authorities would use military force to protect the constitutional settlement.

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