The street versus the people
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The period designated as “thermidorian” which went from the summer of 1794 till the autumn of 1795 appears, in Paris, to be a singular moment of reconfiguration in the relationship between two entities that gave birth to the revolutionary process – the people and the street – as the street became the theatre of expression and of repression privileged by groups hostile to popular movement. “Sans-culottes” lost the control they exercised in the streets which were now manned by groups of young angry men bent on taking their revenge on such a mob. Between the thermidorian Convention, desirous of taking over this reactionary agitation so as to make it the armed branch of its antipopular politics, and the young men who profited from the impunity that they had been offered, a strange game of dupes opened up which lasted until the beginnings of the “royalist” insurrection of 13 vendémiaire an IV (5 October 1795).
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