Girondists

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|image = ACU Girondists.png
|founder = [[Jacques Pierre Brissot]]
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|related = [[Assassins]] [[Paris Commune]]
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|formed = 1791
|collapsed = 1793
|notable = Jacques Pierre Brissot [[Nicolas de Condorcet]] [[Marie-Jeanne Phlippon Roland]]}}
The '''Girondists''' (French: ''Girondins''), also referred to as the '''Brissotins''', were a political faction in [[France]] at the time of the [[French Revolution]], operating within the [[Legislative Assembly]] and the [[National Convention]].

==History==
Initially, the Girondists held most of the political power, hoping to establish a federalist government similar to that of the, at the time, newly-formed [[United States]]. They also supported [[French Revolutionary Wars|wars]] with foreign countries such as [[Austria]], to spread the Revolution.

However, France's lack of success in this department, along with several other political defeats, including the [[10 August|Storming of the]] [[Tuileries Palace]] and the [[September Massacres]], caused the Girondists to gradually lose favor. Their fall from grace led to the rise of the more radical [[Jacobins|Montagnards]], led by [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], [[Jean-Paul Marat]] and [[Georges Danton]].

Due to his obsession with conspiracies, especially among his political opponents, Robespierre ordered an insurrection against the Girondists, which took place on June 1 and 2, 1793. Commander General of the [[Paris]] [[National Guard (France)|National Guard]] [[François Hanriot]] arrived at the National Convention with [[cannons]] and a throng of [[sans-culottes]] in tow to put several Girondists under house arrest, effectively removing the group's political power.

Trapped in their own homes, the Girondists were being prepared to be sent to prison and from there, to their deaths via [[guillotine]]. On the orders of the [[Assassin Council]], [[Arno Dorian]] and a team of [[Assassins]] helped as many Girondists escape from Paris as they could before Hanriot could arrest them.

Around the same time, some Girondists plotted to kill the Jacobin leader [[Jean-Paul Marat]], sending [[Theron Brignac]] to do so. However, he arrived too late, as Marat had already been assassinated by Girondist sympathizer [[Charlotte Corday]] in an effort to disrupt the Jacobins. She was executed for this act four days later.

In October 1793, 23 Girondists, among them the group's founder [[Jacques Pierre Brissot]], were executed for treason. Later, [[Andrés de Guzmán]], a radical revolutionary, would hold passionate speeches criticizing the Girondists and their policies, for which he was assassinated by Arno, who acted on the orders of the [[French Assassins|Parisian Brotherhood]].

Following the [[Thermidorian Reaction]] in 1794, [[Théroigne de Méricourt]], an ardent supporter of Brissot, would take revenge for the Girondists by pursuing the last of the Jacobins before they could escape Paris.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''
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Jacobins

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|related = [[Assassins]] [[Templars]] [[Paris Commune]]
|religion = Deist ([[Cult of the Supreme Being]])
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|collapsed = 1795
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The '''Society of Friends of the Constitution''', more commonly known as the '''Jacobin Club''', was a radical left-wing political party during the [[French Revolution]].

During the constitutional monarchy, the Jacobins' main enemies were the dominant party, the moderate [[Girondists|Girondins]], who they eventually toppled, along with [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]] in 1793.

The party was founded in 1789, and for the first two years of its existence, the party was more politically moderate than it would later become, and was lead by the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Mentor]], the [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau|Comte de Mirabeau]]. However, after his death in 1791, the club was taken over by and served as the main guise of the [[Templars|Templar Order]]'s radical faction under the leadership of [[François-Thomas Germain]], who fought for supremacy with the Order's conservative wing led by [[Élise de la Serre]], daughter of the usurped [[Grand Master]] [[François de la Serre]].

When the Jacobins prevailed against the Girondins in June 1793, Germain gave the reins of government to a fellow Templar, [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], who initiated the [[Reign of Terror]], wherein thousands of French people were executed on increasingly questionable charges.

As the citizens turned against the Jacobins, Robespierre was hunted by Élise and her adopted brother, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Arno Dorian]], both of whom were seeking vengeance against Germain for Grand Master de la Serre's death and reasoned Robespierre would be the most likely to know where he was. Robespierre was captured by revolutionaries on July 27th 1794, but was freed by his supporters as he was being escorted to prison.

Pursued by Arno, he subsequently fled to the [[Hôtel de Ville]] where he sought refuge until reinforcements arrived, but was discovered by Arno, who was soon joined by Élise. When Robespierre refused to tell them anything, Élise shot him in the jaw and told him to write instead. Robespierre finally disclosed that Germain was hiding in the [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]]. With this information, Élise and Arno left, unseen, just as revolutionaries arrived to arrest Robespierre.

The following day, Robespierre was guillotined, and a less radical government was established under the Directory. The Jacobin party collapsed without Robespierre's leadership, and though attempts were made to re-establish it in various forms as late as 1799, none lasted more than a few months.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''
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