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Delaunay’s Denunciation Backfires
- Fabre Delaunay denounced a foreign plot to Robespierre to deflect suspicion, but later evidence implicated him.
- Robespierre, feeling duped, publicly denounced Delaunay and treated the indulgents as compromised.
Unity Rhetoric Masks Political Purge
- Robespierre grew convinced factional fighting endangered the nation and urged unity while sidelining critics.
- He combined moral rhetoric with political action, weakening the indulgents' position.
Revolutionary Energy Had Been Spent
- The sans‑culottes had already received many demands of the Revolution, so radicals struggled to mobilize them again.
- Economic measures and payments to sections reduced appetite for further insurrection.