Belated Happy Cliff Rosenberg Day!

"Until extremists could be branded as traitors, extremism held a whip hand over more moderate counsels. So long as relatively moderate men might be accused of falling short of the aims which all acknowledged, the moderate men would have to accept, endorse and even glorify the acts of the more violent."

-- "Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution", by R. R. Palmer
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"Until extremists could be branded as traitors, extremism held a whip hand over more moderate counsels. So long as relatively moderate men might be accused of falling short of the aims which all acknowledged, the moderate men would have to accept, endorse and even glorify the acts of the more violent."
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At first, I thought you were quoting analysis of the 2003 senate vote to invade Iran.
 
OK, so I'll bite. After extensive research in my book of famous French dates, the only thing I can find is the declaration of the organization of the French revolutionary government in an 2. And that was on 14 Frimaire. So what am I missing?
 
14 Frimaire marks the end of the so-called anarchic Terror and centralization of authority by the Committee of Public Safety, an effort to restore a little order in bedlam. The CPS bought off the Paris sections -- turning them into salaried, ten-sous patriots -- and reigned in the Revolutionary armies, the citizen's militias they had sent to crush counter-revolution in the provinces. Then they pivoted Left, purging the Hébertists, and then Right, against Danton and the Indulgents, in an effort, they said, to stabilize and therefore save the Revolution.
 
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