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- 5 September 1793 – 27 July 1794
- Committee of Public Safety
Jul 12, 2023 · The vast majority of these people killed were ordinary French men and women, not members of the elite. Overall, Greer estimates 8.5% of the Terror’s victims belonged to the nobility, 6.5% to the ...
A representation of guillotinings during the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was the most radical and violent phase of the French Revolution, spanning ...
Nov 1, 2022 · The French Revolution . Oxford University Press, 2019. Davidson, Ian. The French Revolution. Pegasus Books, 2018. Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. Francois Furet & Mona Ozouf & Arthur Goldhammer. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.
- What was the Reign of Terror and why was it significant?The Reign of Terror was a period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution, in which citizens suspected of 'counter-revolutionary'...
- What caused the Reign of Terror?The Reign of Terror was caused by a constant paranoia that enemies were working from within France to destroy the French Revolution and take away t...
- Who started the Reign of Terror and why?The Reign of Terror was presided over by Maximilien Robespierre and his colleagues on the Committee of Public Safety, who used the Terror to consol...
- How did the Reign of Terror end?The Reign of Terror ended with the arrests and executions of Maximilien Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794. This led into the period of...
Apr 25, 2012 · When the French Revolution morphed horrifically into the “Reign of Terror” just months after Pelletier’s execution, ... (The use of the guillotine for French executions continued until 1977 ...
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At first the machine was called a louisette, or louison, after its inventor, French surgeon and physiologist Antoine Louis, but later it became known as la guillotine. Later the French underworld dubbed it “the widow.”. Maximilien Robespierre at the guillotine, July 28, 1794. During the French Revolution, the guillotine became the primary ...
France - Revolution, Terror, Guillotine: After their victory in expelling the Girondins, Parisian militants “regenerated” their own sectional assemblies by purging local moderates, while radicals such as Jacques-René Hébert and Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette tightened their grip on the Paris Commune. On September 5, 1793, they mounted another mass demonstration to demand that the Convention ...
