The revolt of 1 prairial

Prairial

Prairial was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. This month was named after the French word prairie, which means meadow. It was the name given to several ships....

 year III was a Jacobin

Jacobin (politics)

A Jacobin , in the context of the French Revolution, was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary far-left political movement. The Jacobin Club was the most famous political club of the French Revolution. So called from the Dominican convent where they originally met, in the Rue St. Jacques ,...

 popular revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the Thermidorian National Convention

National Convention

During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 . It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic...

, then presided over by François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas. It was provoked by poverty and hunger resulting from a large hike in prices due to the major depreciation of the assignat

Assignat

Assignat was the type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars.- France :...

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Paintings

A painting by Auguste Vinchon, made in 1833–35, shows the scene at the salle des mariages in the Hotel de Ville at Annonay

Annonay

Annonay is a commune in the north of the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France. It is the most populous commune in the Ardèche department, although it is not the capital, which resides in the smaller town of Privas.-Geography:...

, salle des mariages.