THE See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• THE MOUNTAIN (La Montagne)

MOUNTAIN (La Montagne)  , the name applied during the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Revolution to a See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• GROUP

group, whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly . The See also:

• TERM

term, which was first used during the session of the Legislative Assembly, did not come into See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general use until 1793 . At the opening of the See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention the Montagnard group comprised men of very diverse shades of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, and such cohesion as it subsequently acquired was due rather to the opposition of its leaders to the Girondist leaders than to any fundamental hostility between the two See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief point of distinction was that the See also:

• GIRONDISTS (Fr. Girondins)

Girondists were mainly theorists and thinkers, whereas the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain was composed almost entirely of uncompromising men of See also:

• ACTION

action . During their struggle with the Girondists, the Montagnards gained the upper See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand in the Jacobin See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, and for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time Jacobin and Montagnard were synonymous terms . The Mountain was successively under the sway of such men as See also:

• MARAT, JEAN PAUL (1743-1793)

Marat, See also:

• DANTON, GEORGE JACQUES (1759-1794)

Danton, and See also:

• ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIEN FRANCOIS MARIE ISIDORE DE (175$-1794)

Robespierre, and the group finally disappeared after Robespierre's See also:

• DEATH

death and the successes of the French arms . See also the articles See also:

• JACOBINS, THE

JACOBINS, GIRONDISTS and FRENCH REVOLUTION .