Can the Jacobin republic be saved?

By this I mean the National Convention, the Constitution of the Year I, and no Thermidorian Reaction.
 
If the war continues to be as desperate as it was before the Battle of Fleurus.

But that can't continue forever. At some point either France gets some breathing room, or France is defeated and the allies overthrow the Jacobin regime.

Wouldn't the obvious thing be an orderly winding down of the Terror? Don't take down the Dantonists, and execute Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Vadier, and Amar at the same time you take out Hébert. Then announce a gradual restoration of civil liberties and an end to Terror - the Terror has achieved its aims, and now we can put the new Constitution into effect. The Plain no longer has to fear for its life, and Robespierre's enemies on the left on the Committees are gone as well. So maybe a modus vivendi is possible.
 
But that can't continue forever. At some point either France gets some breathing room, or France is defeated and the allies overthrow the Jacobin regime.

Wouldn't the obvious thing be an orderly winding down of the Terror? Don't take down the Dantonists, and execute Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Vadier, and Amar at the same time you take out Hébert. Then announce a gradual restoration of civil liberties and an end to Terror - the Terror has achieved its aims, and now we can put the new Constitution into effect. The Plain no longer has to fear for its life, and Robespierre's enemies on the left on the Committees are gone as well. So maybe a modus vivendi is possible.

That could be it,but it depends on the pod.But could you call such a regime a 'Jacobin' Republic?
 
That could be it,but it depends on the pod.But could you call such a regime a 'Jacobin' Republic?

If the Constitution of 1793 actually goes into effect, I think you could. Certainly that was the primary political program of the Jacobins during the Directory - they called for bring back the democratic constitution, not resumption of the Terror.

Can you plausibly actually get that to happen, though?
 
If the Constitution of 1793 actually goes into effect, I think you could. Certainly that was the primary political program of the Jacobins during the Directory - they called for bring back the democratic constitution, not resumption of the Terror.

Can you plausibly actually get that to happen, though?

Yes,that's their original ideology,but nowadays,the term Jacobin had other meanings,and what's important is how do you prevent the classic case of absolute power corrupts absolutely?Because this seems to be the case with Robespierre and his gang.They got drunk on power and tried to continue their purges after the danger has receded.
 
Jacobin republic cannot just stop terror, not without some sort of reactionaries (like Thermidore) taking over, and then they aren't Jacobins anymore.

Because Revolution eats her own children.

Why Jacobins were beheading people? For being insufficiently revolutionary. Guess what, wanting to stop beheadings is deeply anti-revolutionary idea. Anyone who proposed to stop terror would be deemed insufficiently revolutionary by other revolutionaries, worried that if they wouldn't condemn him, they would be deemed insufficiently revolutionary by yet another people worried of being deemed insufficiently revolutionary. And so on and so on.

Stuff like Jacobin revolution tend to escalate into bloodbath, its their very nature, like Khmer Rouge.

This escalates until someone mercifully puts them out of everyone's misery.
 

The terror is not what defines the Jacobins. It's their adherence to democratic and republican values that defines them. They cannot be compared to regimes such as the Khmer Rouge.

To end the Terror, you need to end the Revolutionary Wars. The fear of counter-revolution was the things that were causing all of the purges. France would have initially been a dictatorship, but then it would have transitioned into a stable British-style democracy (post Reform Act) by 1850, much earlier than IOTL.
 
The terror is not what defines the Jacobins. It's their adherence to democratic and republican values that defines them. They cannot be compared to regimes such as the Khmer Rouge.

To end the Terror, you need to end the Revolutionary Wars. The fear of counter-revolution was the things that were causing all of the purges. France would have initially been a dictatorship, but then it would have transitioned into a stable British-style democracy (post Reform Act) by 1850, much earlier than IOTL.

One of the ways to stop the counter-revolution was to outright repeal the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, leave the non-juring priests alone (instead of killing them or sending them to Cayenne) and just to announce a seperation of church and state (which the Directory eventually did after so much blood-letting and even then govt. officials actually encouraged priests/bishops to abjure and/or to get married) AND to stop the De-Christianizing mania that led many peasants to fight back (particularly in the Vendee), many of the top Jacobins such as Fouche, Marat, et al. Even Robiespierre who detested atheism and instituted the Cult of the Supreme Being, still wanted to Christianize France. I don't think the Jacobins would have been willing to let go - despite the fact they claimed to be "democratic". Even many of Napoleon's most fervently Republican generals were against his peace with the Church.
 
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