T3: Driving force of the Terror?

Question 1

De-Christianisation

Answer 1

late 1793- 1794

Question 2

When did Hebert organise the Festival of Reason?

Answer 2

10th Nov 1793

Question 3

When did the Paris Commune order that all churches in Paris be closed?

Answer 3

Nov 1793

Question 4

By when had the majority of churches in France closed?

Answer 4

spring 1794

Question 5

15,000 Vendeans killed on the field at Le Mans

Answer 5

12th Dec 1793

Question 6

last Vendean army defeated

Answer 6

22 Dec 1794

Question 7

What was General Turreau responsible for?

Answer 7

hell columns

Question 8

What was Carrier responsible for?

Answer 8

authorised mass murder- drowning of ‘suspects’ (incl 90 priests) in the River Loire

Question 9

How many people died in the suppression of the Vendee?

Answer 9

a quarter of a million

Question 10

When were the Hebertists sent to the guillotine?

Answer 10

24th March 1794

Question 11

When were Danton, Desmoulins and 13 others (the Indulgents) sent to the guillotine?

Answer 11

5th April 1794

Question 12

Saint-Just made speeches and writings which advocated the continuation of the Terror

Answer 12

1794

Question 13

When was the General Police Bureau set up in Paris?

Answer 13

March 1794

Question 14

When was a law passed which gave the Parisian Tribunal exclusive jurisdiction over all counter-revolutionary trials?

Answer 14

8th May 1794

Question 15

When was the Law of Prairial passed?

Answer 15

10th June 1794

Question 16

When were the assassination attempts on Robespierre carried out?

Answer 16

23rd and 24th May 1794

Question 17

How many people did the Rev Tribunal send to the guillotine June and July 1794?

Answer 17

1,594 (50% higher than past 14 months combined)

Question 18

When was the Great Terror?

Answer 18

June/July 1794