Indulgents

…as the leader of the Indulgents, the moderate faction that had risen out of the Cordeliers.

…and to the right (the Indulgents, or followers of Georges Danton). Still uncertain of its position, the committee obtained the Law of 22 Prairial, year II (June 10, 1794), which suspended a suspect’s right to public trial and to legal assistance and left the jury a choice only of acquittal…