<P> Most Ministries were manned by friends or allies of the Girondins . But while the Girondins were stronger than the Montagnards outside Paris, inside Paris the Montagnards were much more popular, implying that the public galleries of the Convention were always loudly cheering for Montagnards, while jeering at Girondins speaking . </P> <P> On 6 April 1793, the Convention established the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Prosperity, also translated as Committee of Public Safety) as sort of executive government of nine, later twelve members, always accountable to the National Convention . Initially it counted no Girondins and only one or two Montagnards, but gradually the influence of Montagnards in the Committee grew . </P> <P> Early April 1793, Minister of War, Pache, said to the National Convention that the 22 leaders of the Girondins should be banned . Later that month, the Girondin Guadet accused the Montagnard Marat of' preaching plunder and murder' and trying' to destroy the sovereignty of the people' . A majority of the Convention agreed to put Marat on trial, but the court of justice quickly acquitted Marat . This apparent victory of the Montagnards intensified their antipathies of the Girondins, and more proposals were vented to get rid of the Girondins . </P> <P> On both 18 and 25 May 1793, the acting president of the Convention, Isnard, a Girondin, warned that the disturbances and disorder on the galleries and around the Convention would finally lead the country to anarchy and civil war, and he threatened on 25 May: "If anything should befall to the representatives of the nation, I declare, in the name of France, that all of Paris will be obliterated". The next day, Robespierre said in the Jacobin Club that the people should "rise up against the corrupted deputies" in the Convention . On 27 May, both Girondins and Montagnards accused the other party of propagating civil war . </P>

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