The Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795) was a royalist uprising in Paris during the French Revolution (1789-1799). In response to the anti-royalist policies of the Thermidorian Reaction, 25,000 Parisians rose in revolt but were crushed by French Republican soldiers under the command of General Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), who famously used grapeshot to disperse the insurrection... https://www.worldhistory.org/13_Vendemiaire/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #PrairialUprising #13Vendemiaire #FrenchDirectory

The Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) was the last major popular insurrection during the French Revolution (1789-1799). It was the final time that the sans-culottes played an important role in French politics until the revolutions of the 19th century, and it dashed any hopes that the Jacobins would regain power after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre. https://www.worldhistory.org/Prairial_Uprising/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #PrairialUprising #FrenchDirectory #FrenchRevolution