Who was girondist?

the Girondists were the conservative party of the French government during the French Revolution, they opposed the killing of King Louis XVI, but were beaten by the Jacobins lead by Robespierre, soon after they were all arrested and executed in what was known as the "Reign of Terror"

A group of deputies in the Assembly and Legislative Convention, many of them from the Gironde area around Bordeaux, established during the French Revolution. Centred around the figure of J.-P. Brissot, the 'faction of the Gironde' represented the resistance of the provinces to Parisian dominance, and opposition to the emerging dictatorship and terror under Robespierre. In June 1793 the Girondins were themselves expelled from the Convention and later killed.