Social Science History 2004 28(1):53-73; DOI:10.1215/01455532-28-1-53
Duke University Press
Polling the Opinions
A Reexamination of Mountain, Plain, and Gironde in the National Convention
Benjamin Reilly
Abstract
There has long been agreement among scholars that the French National
Convention can be usefully divided into three political categories, the
Mountain, the Plain, and the Gironde, yet there has been much less agreement
about the size and composition of these categories. In order to test existing
categories of classification, especially those of Patrick (1969, 1972) and
Lewis-Beck et al. (1988), this article examines a neglected body of data, the
anti-inviolability opinions produced during King Louis XVI's trial, and uses
them as an opinion poll with which to examine the political identity of a
cross-section of deputies in the National Convention in the winter of
1792-93.

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