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The insurrection of 1 Prairial Year III was a popular revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was one of the last popular revolts of the French Revolution.
Félix Auvray, 1831
References
- Rude 1967, pp. 142, 152–155, 159.
- Lefebvre 1963, pp. 126, 142–144.
- Woronoff 1984, p. 19.
Sources
- Lefebvre, Georges (1963). The French Revolution: from 1793 to 1799. Vol. II. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-02519-X.
- Rude, Georges (1967). The Crowd in the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-00370-5.
- Lefebvre, Georges (1964). The Thermidorians & the Directory. New York: Random House.
- Woronoff, Denis (1984). The Thermidorean regime and the Directory, 1794–1799. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-28917-3.
- Soboul, Albert (1974). The French Revolution:: 1787–1799. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-47392-2.
- Hampson, Norman (1988). A Social History of the French Revolution. Routledge: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-710-06525-6.