For instance few people know that the members of "Le Comité de Salut Public", including Robespierre himself, had to be re-elected by the Convention every week.
I didn't know that - interesting. I suppose the question is, by the time the Committee took power, was the Convention still a functioning body or had it been purged into a compliant puppet? (By comparison, I'm thinking of the English House of Commons after Cromwell and the Army took power in 1649.)
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Date: 2007-04-20 09:24 pm (UTC)I didn't know that - interesting. I suppose the question is, by the time the Committee took power, was the Convention still a functioning body or had it been purged into a compliant puppet? (By comparison, I'm thinking of the English House of Commons after Cromwell and the Army took power in 1649.)