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 | | A new Parisian outburst, organized by the radical journalist Jacques René Hébert (1757–94) and his extremist colleagues, forced the convention to order the arrest of 29 Girondist delegates and the Girondist ministers Pierre Henri Hélène Marie Lebrun-Tondu (1763?–93) and Étienne Clavière (1735–93) on June 2. |
 | | In addition, on Nov. 23, 1793, the Commune of Paris, in a measure soon copied by authorities elsewhere in France, closed all churches in the city and began actively to sponsor the revolutionary religion known as the Cult of Reason. |
 | | Initiated at the insistence of the radical leader Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763–94) and his extremist colleagues (among them Hébert), this act accentuated growing differences between the centrist Jacobins, led by Robespierre, and the fanatical Hébertists, a powerful force in the convention and in the Parisian government. |
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