Indulgents

They sought to slow the Revolution's violence after the fall of the Girondins. Desmoulins challenged the Terror in his newspaper Le Vieux Cordelier. Danton himself belonged to the Mountain and had played an important part in the fall of the king, and the Indulgents had also helped build the revolutionary government. Arrested on the night of 30–31 March 1794, they were tried on 2–4 April, condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal on 5 April and guillotined. Following the Hébertists' execution in March, this purge let the revolutionary government remove in turn its rivals in the popular movement and the calls for moderation inside the assembly. Reading the conflict as a split within one revolutionary camp over the duration and intensity of emergency rule, rather than a clash of fixed moderates and radicals, is an interpretation.