Editing Mary Wollstonecraft (section)

===France===
[[File:Tuileriensturm.jpg|thumb|alt=Smoke is billowing throughout the top two-thirds of the picture, dead guards are scattered in the foreground, and a battle with hand-to-hand combat and a horse is in the bottom right.|The [[insurrection of 10 August 1792]]]]

Wollstonecraft left for Paris in December 1792, and arrived about a month before [[Execution of Louis XVI|Louis XVI was guillotined]]. Britain and France were on the brink of war when she left for Paris, and many advised her not to go.<ref>Furniss 64.</ref> France was in turmoil. She sought out other British visitors such as [[Helen Maria Williams]] and joined the circle of expatriates then in the city.<ref>Todd, 214–215; Tomalin, 156–182; Wardle, 179–184.</ref> During her time in Paris, Wollstonecraft associated mostly with the moderate [[Girondins]] rather than the more radical [[Jacobins]].<ref name="Furniss 65" /> It was indicative that when [[Archibald Hamilton Rowan]], the [[Society of United Irishmen|United Irishman]], encountered her in the city in 1794 it was at a post-Terror festival in honour of the moderate revolutionary leader [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau|Mirabeau]], who had been a great hero for Irish and English radicals before his death in April 1791.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Whelan |first=Fergus |title=God-Provoking Democrat: The Remarkable Life of Archibald Hamilton Rowan |publisher=New Island |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-84840-460-1 |location=Stillorgan, Dublin |page=151}}</ref>

On 26 December 1792, Wollstonecraft saw the former king, [[Louis XVI]], being taken to be tried before the National Assembly, and much to her own surprise, found "the tears flow[ing] insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach going to meet death, where so many of his race have triumphed".<ref name="Furniss 65">Furniss 65.</ref>

France declared war on Britain in February 1793.<ref name="Furniss 66" /> Wollstonecraft tried to leave France for Switzerland but was denied permission.<ref name="Furniss 66" />  The Jacobin faction increased in power, and in March the formation of the [[Committee of Public Safety]] and the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] were symptomatic of an increasingly totalitarian regime.<ref name="Furniss 66" />  Life became very difficult for foreigners in France.<ref name="Furniss 66">Furniss 66.</ref> At first, they were put under police surveillance and, to get a residency permit, had to produce six written statements from Frenchmen testifying to their loyalty to the republic. Then, on 12 April 1793, all foreigners were forbidden to leave France.<ref name="Furniss 67">Furniss 67.</ref> Despite her sympathy for the revolution, life for Wollstonecraft become very uncomfortable, all the more so as the Girondins had lost out to the Jacobins.<ref name="Furniss 67" /> Some of Wollstonecraft's French friends lost their heads to the guillotine as the Jacobins set out to annihilate their enemies.<ref name="Furniss 67" />