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 lower classes. Fouquier Tinville guillotined (May 8th). Insurrection of Prairial, the Second attempt of Sansculottism to recover power ('1 Prairial, May 20th); Deputy Féraud massacred:—issues in the Disarming and Finishing of Sansculottism. Emigrant Invasion, in English ships, lands at Quiberon, and is blown to pieces (July 15th–20th): La Vendée, which had before been three years in Revolt, is hereby kindled into a 'Second' less important 'Revolt of La Vendée,' which lasts some eight months. Reactionary 'Companies of Jesus,' 'Companies of the Sun,' assassinating Jacobins in the Rhone Countries (July–August). New Constitution: Directory and Consuls,—Two-thirds of the Convention to be reëlected. Objections to that clause. Section Lepelletier, and miscellaneous Discontented, revolt against it: Insurrection of Vendémiaire, Last of the Insurrections ('13 Vendémiaire, Year 4,' October 5th, 1795); quelled by Napoleon. On which 'The Revolution,' as defined here, ends,—Anarchic Government, if still anarchic, proceeding by softer methods than that of continued insurrection.