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conventionalists

n. (plural of conventionalist English)

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And as, notwithstanding its decrees, the electoral assemblies have not re-elected a sufficient number of the Conventionalists, it nominates itself, from a list prepared by its Committee of Public Safety, the one hundred and four which are lacking: In this way, both in the council of the Five Hundred, as well as in the council of the Ancients, it secures a clear majority in both the houses of the Legislative Corps.

Furthermore, Conventionalists of the worst species, like Monestier and Foussedoire return to their natal department to govern it as government commissioners.

They become alarmed on the arrival of the first Third, in October, 1795: "The Conventionalists," writes one of the new deputies,[60] "look upon us as men who will one day give them up to justice.