Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III

Revolt of 1 Prairial, Year III
	Part of the French Revolution
	; Journée du 1er prairial an III, engraving by Isidore-S. Helman after Charles Monnet (1796)
Date	1–4 Prairial Year III (20–23 May 1795)
Location	Paris, France
Result	Thermidorian victory Suppression of the sans-culotte movement; Disarming of the militant sections; Arrest, trial, and execution or suicide of the "Last Montagnards";
Belligerents
Thermidorian Convention; Supported by: National Guard; Regular army detachments;	Sans-culottes of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marcel; Supported by: Popular societies; Remaining Montagnard deputies;
Commanders and leaders
François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas (political); Gen. Jacques de Menou (military);	Popular sectional leaders; Romme; Goujon;
Strength
Unknown	Several thousand insurgents
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Dozens executed or imprisoned: 6 Convention deputies sentenced to death; 3 deputies (Romme, Goujon, Duquesnoy) committed suicide; 3 deputies guillotined (Bourbotte, Duroy, Soubrany); Thousands arrested and purged from local institutions;

The Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) was the final major popular uprising of the French Revolution. Sans-culottes from eastern Paris marched on the National Convention demanding "du pain et la Constitution de l’An I" — bread and enforcement of the radical Constitution of Year I. They briefly occupied the hall, murdered deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud, and called for renewed price controls and direct democracy. Loyal National Guard units cleared the Convention by nightfall. A second mobilization on 2 Prairial collapsed, and by 4 Prairial the faubourgs were disarmed. Fourteen deputies were ordered arrested; eight were seized. Six deputies were condemned to death. Romme, Goujon, and Duquesnoy committed suicide, while the others were guillotined. The defeat of the uprising marked the end of sans-culotte political influence and consolidated the Thermidorian Reaction.