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=== Failed Jacobin coup (May 1795) and rebellion in Brittany (June–July) ===
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[[File:Louis Lazare Hoche1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|General [[Lazare Hoche]] defeated a royalist army that landed in Brittany (July 1795)]]
On 20 May 1795 (1 [[Prairial]] Year III), the Jacobins attempted to seize power in Paris. Following the model of Danton's seizure of the National Assembly in June 1792, a mob of [[sans-culottes]] invaded the meeting hall of the Convention at the [[Tuileries Palace]], killed one deputy, and demanded that a new government be formed. This time the army moved swiftly to clear the hall. Several deputies who had taken the side of the invaders were arrested. The uprising continued the following day, as the sans-culottes seized the ''[[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]]'' as they had done in earlier uprisings, but with little effect; crowds did not move to support them. On the third day, 22 May, the army moved into and occupied the working-class neighborhood of the [[Faubourg Saint-Antoine]]. The sans-culottes were disarmed and their leaders were arrested. In the following days the surviving members of the Committee of Public Safety, the committee that had been led by Robespierre, were arrested, with the exception of [[Lazare Carnot|Carnot]] and two others. Six of the deputies who had participated in the uprising and had been sentenced to death committed suicide before they were taken to the guillotine.{{sfn|Tulard|Fayard|Fierro|1998|p=378}}

On 23 June 1795, the [[Chouan]]s, royalist and Catholic rebels in [[Brittany]], formed an army of 14,000 men near [[Quiberon]]. With the assistance of the British navy, a force of two thousand royalists was [[Invasion of France (1795)|landed at Quiberon]]. The French army under General [[Lazare Hoche]] reacted swiftly, forcing the royalists to take refuge on the peninsula and then to withdraw. They surrendered on 21 July; 748 of the rebels were executed by firing squad.{{sfn|Tulard|Fayard|Fierro|1998|p=379}}