This Bastille Day, the Ladies of Greenwich Invisible and their allies should perhaps reflect on the history of the Girondins
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“Well, at least we’ll always have Belle Haven, right?”
The Girondins were executed and supplanted by the still more radical Montagnards, who were in turn executed and supplanted by another bloodthirsty mob, which was then replaced by a dictator. From start to finish, about a decade.
