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Nov 16, 2022 · As the pile of bodies mounted, the Revolution itself ground to a halt. On 10 October, the National Convention agreed that France's provisional government would remain revolutionary (i.e. dictatorial) until the peace, and the new Constitution of 1793 was shelved before it could ever be implemented.
Accessed 17 November 2024. Reign of Terror, period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794, during which the Revolutionary government decided to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, and hoarders). In Paris a wave of executions followed.
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- Prior to the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror (1793–94), France was governed by the National Convention. Power in this assembly was divided betw...
- Laws were passed that defined those who should be arrested as counterrevolutionaries, and committees of surveillance were set up to identify suspec...
- Maximilien Robespierre, president of the Jacobin Club, was also president of the National Convention and was the most prominent member of the Commi...
- The Reign of Terror instituted the conscripted army, which saved France from invasion by other countries and in that sense preserved the Revolution...
In a speech given to the National Convention in February 1794, Robespierre justifies the use of revolutionary terror: “To found and consolidate democracy, to achieve the peaceable reign of the constitutional laws, we must end the war of liberty against tyranny and pass safely across the storms of the revolution.
"During the Reign of Terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in prison or without trial." [ 1 ] [ 4 ] On 2 June 1793, the Parisian sans-culottes surrounded the National Convention, [ 44 ] calling for administrative and political purges, a fixed low price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.
Nov 1, 2022 · The Law of 22 Prairial (June 1794) led to a marked acceleration of killings, a month-long period known as the Great Terror, which ended only with the fall of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794).
78 Montagnard deputies. The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre 's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor (28 July). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · The French Revolution began in 1789. Soon, the Bastille was stormed and the monarchy eliminated. After the Reign of Terror, France established a new government.
