1
00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:07,660
Hi, today we are going to talk about the Jacobin Convention, Directory and Consulate.

2
00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,919
First of all, we are going to explain you what are the Jacobins.

3
00:00:13,439 --> 00:00:16,239
The Jacobins are a political group of the French Revolution.

4
00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:21,359
They were formed in 1789 by the Breton deputies to the States General.

5
00:00:22,899 --> 00:00:28,179
The club's name comes from the Monastery of the Jacobins, place where they met.

6
00:00:28,179 --> 00:00:36,340
Their goal was to concern their activity and to guarantee the support for the group from other people foreign to the assembly.

7
00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,619
The leader of this club was called Maximilien Robespierre.

8
00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:45,259
He was one of the principal figures of the French Revolution.

9
00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,679
At the end of 1793, he arrived to control the Committee of Public Safety,

10
00:00:52,679 --> 00:00:59,020
which at that time was the principal organ of the revolutionary government during the Ring of Terror.

11
00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:04,799
But in 1794 he was beaten and executed in the Thermidorian Reaction.

12
00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:17,659
The Terror was the period of the French Revolution from September the 5th in 1793 to July the 27th in 1794.

13
00:01:17,659 --> 00:01:27,659
The revolutionary government decided to infuse terror on citizens, and the ones that opposed to the revolution were killed in Paris.

14
00:01:27,659 --> 00:01:37,659
In the year 1793, a new constitution was adopted and established universal manhood suffrage, which means that common men were able to vote.

15
00:01:37,659 --> 00:01:46,659
Do you remember this guy from before? Well, he created the law of maximums that fixed the maximum prices for basic food to make sure people could afford them.

16
00:01:46,659 --> 00:01:59,640
During this period, a popular revolutionary army was formed, along with some measures intended to contribute to the war that France was fighting against Austria, Prussia, Great Britain and Spain.