Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Reign of Terror. Sept 1793 - July
1794 Junior Cert Revision
- National Convention set up up the Committee of Public Safety in Spring 1793 to deal with threats to the revolution
- 1. War with Austria
- Introduce Mass conscription in the army
- 2. Uprisings in France
such as in the Vendee
- Use the army to brutally put down any
rebels. 130,000 killed in he Vendee
- 3. Nobility and Church
want their status back
- Introduce the Law of Suspects to
execute anyone who goes
against the revolution
- 4. Increase in Food Prices
- Introduce the Law of
Maximum to keep
bread prices down
- Maximilien Robespierre
was the head of the
Committee of Public
Safety
- The Incorruptible
- Leader of the Jacobins
- Supported by the sans Cullotes
- Results of the Reign of Terror
- 18,000 guillotined
- 40,000 officially dead
- Many more killed in Vendee
- Ended in July 1794 with arrest and execution of Robespierre