The Girondins were a moderate faction of the Jacobin Club which existed from 1791 to 1793 during the French Revolution. The Girondins, along with the Montagnards, were initially affiliated with the Jacobins, campaigning for the end of the Bourbon monarchy before resisting the spiralling momentum of the revolution. The Girondin faction consisted of the lesser nobility, landowners, and the bourgeoisie and supported a federalist system of governance, and they were influenced by classical liberalism, democracy, human rights, and the separation of powers. While the Girondins initially supported a constitutional monarchy, they mostly became republicans following King Louis XVI's attempted Flight to Varennes in June 1791, while a royalist minority persisted. The Girondins supported a free market and opposed price controls, and they also supported poor relief, the exportation of the revolution through war with the reactionary monarchies of Europe, abolitionism, and women's suffrage. After the neutralization of the centrist Feuillants, the Girondins became the new conservative faction of French politics, opposing the centrist The Plain faction and the left-wing Montagnards. The Girondin domination of the Jacobin movement was brought to an end by the Insurrection of 31 May-2 June 1793, and the Reign of Terror saw the purge and the mass execution of the Girondins.
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