What was the name of the failed popular uprising in Paris on 20 May 1795?

The failed popular uprising in Paris on 20 May 1795 was the Prairial uprising, also called the Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III. It was the last major popular insurrection of the French Revolution.

Parisian sans-culottes entered the National Convention demanding “bread and the Constitution of Year I.” Food shortages, inflation and the abandonment of radical economic policies had intensified popular anger. The demonstrators briefly occupied the Convention’s meeting hall and killed deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud, whose head was displayed on a pike.

National Guard forces loyal to the Convention eventually cleared the building. A second mobilization soon collapsed, and the authorities disarmed the eastern Parisian sections. Several deputies associated with the uprising were arrested; some were executed and others died by suicide. The event is often confused with the Thermidorian Reaction, but that was the political overthrow of Robespierre in July 1794, almost a year earlier.