. . . no trap is so deadly as the one you set for yourself, and suddenly the men who had humbled a king and boldly waged ideological war against the monarchs of Europe were reduced to frightened little pawns. Running for their lives, some managed to escape, with the faint hope of inciting civil war in the provinces, while others were placed under house arrest.
-Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World: 1788-1800
After the fall of the French monarchy in January of 1793, the triumphant Girondins were soon trumped by the Jacobins, who didn't survive too long either.
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