Here’s ya boi barras talking about another (?) incindent with collot and robespierre but im even more confused now, it sounds like a deja vu of the window one… they’re fighting over a proscription list that was attributed to robespierre, but he was actually against it so he blames the rest of the cps for it, then says more or less the same thing from the other anecdote about how they’re “decimating the convention” which pisses collot off, but this time he just grabs him by the collar?
“he seeks to impute us that of which he alone is capable” ok collot fusilades d'herbois, sure
then Barras helps separate them and Robespierre leaves while threatening to “unmask them to the convention”, Barras follows him home and they have this awkward-ass interaction hsdkfgsdfg
Talking about Collot and Billaud, isn’t it bonkers that while Collot was shooting people in Lyons, Billaud was passing the 14 frimaire law that made what his boyfriend was doing illegal?
what’s that law? :0
Well I’m not sure it would have made the fusilades illegal but maybe would have prevented them. the law of 14 frimaire centralized the government under the cps and made representatives on mission more accountable and unable to do anything without the permission of the cps. It also started the bulletin des Lois.
Oh interesting! Now that I checked the date, 14 Frimaire is December 4 which is the day the first shooting happened
the fact that it was Billaud who proposed it what kills me too
was it too late for the cps to intervene? when did they even learn about the news? im sure it would take some time with snail mail.
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the shootings lasted from December to February so… either the mail was really being carried by snail, or the CPS didn’t see them as a priority (or even as a problem?)
Side eyeing every single member of the CPS (except couthon bc he was the only sane member of the convention I guess). And I can’t imagine the shitshows that must have happened in the green room over this. Sure they got distracted by the war on the factions and the arguably fake foreign plot, gotta love their priorities
This is so messed up. And jokes aside, but Collot and BV were already pretty close at that point, right? So how to explain this? Did BV not understand what was going on in Lyon?
