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Donald Sutherland, « Étude de cas : le comité de surveillance d’Aubagne », Rives nord-méditerranéennes, ID : 10.4000/rives.574
The revolutionary committee of Aubagne operated in the context of a struggle of rival factions that had begun early in 1792 when a democratic upsurge challenged the local elite’s hold on power. The Jacobins used the Law of Suspects against their enemies that is against the local elite. An examination of those arrested as suspects and those denounced as émigrés shows the sociological profile of the anti-Jacobins or of their families. Repression in Aubagne was fairly severe but limited. Executions and arrests did not purge the elite. Confiscation of property had a more dramatic impact but once again, did not destroy the elite. The sudden end of the Terror cut the Jacobin project short and opened the way for the anti-Jacobins to take their revenge.