Is Girondins left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Girondins scores +06 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −04. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Girondins authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Girondins scores −04. Federalist-leaning republic, elected assemblies, rule of law during revolution.

Atlas / Organisations / Girondins

Girondins

Brissotins · 1791–1793 · France · Liberal · Faction · coding confidence medium

+06ECmarket

−04CUpluralist

−04AUpluralist

−05SClocal

−03IDuniversal

+05CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Constitutional republic, free commerce, provincial autonomy against Parisian street power.

Economic model

Laissez-faire; opposed price controls on grain even during famine.

Organisation of powers

Federalist-leaning republic, elected assemblies, rule of law during revolution.

Reading note

Destroyed by the Jacobins and executed. The revolution's own liberal wing.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +06

Coded +6: laissez-faire maintained during famine.

Documented act or statuteOpposed the maximum on grain prices demanded by Paris in 1793.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −04

Coded −4: republican and anticlerical without the dechristianising campaign.

Documented act or statuteSupported the civil constitution of the clergy while opposing the later dechristianisation.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −04

Coded −4: constitutional republic and rule of law during revolution.

Documented act or statuteOpposed the September massacres of 1792 and demanded prosecution of those responsible.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −05

Coded −5: provincial authority against Parisian street power.

Documented act or statuteAccused of federalism, a capital charge under the Convention.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −03

Coded −3: civic republican membership.

Documented act or statuteSupported extending citizenship to foreign sympathisers of the revolution.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +05

Coded +5: revolutionary, and destroyed by the faction that was more so.

Documented act or statuteTwenty-one Girondin deputies were guillotined in October 1793.

Where it came from, and what came after

destroyedJacobins
Twenty-one Girondin deputies were guillotined in October 1793.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

France

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Girondins. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/girondins/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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