The February 23rd 1793, the Convention decides the levy in masse of three hundred and thousand men, taken among the single people or widowers from 18 to 25 years.

It consisted in enlisting with the drawing lot of the men of all the departments of France. The goal was to face the sudden fall of manpower of the army due to the losses, the desertions and, more largely, the massive departures of the volunteers raised in 1792 for the duration of a campaign, who estimated to be able to return on their premises, the enemy having been pushed back out of the borders. This lifting caused a strong country dissatisfaction and riots with Rouen, Amiens and Montargis. Convention sends 82 deputies to repress them and accelerate the Levy in masse . This one starts the rising of the the Vendée. Indeed, before even as the decree does not arrive in the municipalities (the March 7th), of the disorders burst: beginner with Cholet as of the March 2nd, they spread the 10. Machecoul is occupied the 11 by the insurrectionists, who massacre approximately 160 inhabitants favorable to the Republic and priests swearers, Tiffauges the 12, the day fixed for the operations of the drawing lot. The 13 and March 14th, the Breton Marsh and the Bocage ignite: all the cities of the north of the department, the Herbaria, Mortagne, Montaigu, Challans, the Roche-sur-Yon, fall to the hands from the insurrectionists, it is the beginning of large the rising of the Vendée.

The August 23rd 1793, a news levy in masse in mass of the men from 25 to 30 years is issued following the report/ratio Barère. The army of Convention reaches a million men to the end of the year, quantifies considerable for the time.

See too

• Lifting of the 300.000 men , song of the disc the Discovery or Ignorance (1976), of the group Tri Yann. Into Breton.