Terror Flashcards
1792-94 deaths
40,000 victims, 17,000 guillotined.
Revolutionary tribunal cases
March-September 1793: 260 cases. September - December 1794: 500,000 cases.
Show trials
Marie Antoinette on 16 October 1793. 21 Girondin leaders on 31 October 1793. Philippe Egalite on 6 November 1793. Madame Roland on 8 November 1793.
Carrier
November 1793 - January 1794: 2,000 executed in noyades at Nantes.
Fouche
December 1793: Mitraillades saw 935 prisoners killed.
Dechristianisation
Agitated by Hebert and Chaumette. October 1793 - Paris Commune makes this official policy. Notre Dame Cathedral transformed to Temple of Reason. November 1793 - Festival of Reason. Cult of Reason adopted. Replaced by Cult of the Supreme Being in 1794.
Law of 14 Frimaire
4 December 1793 - CPS centralised control. Armees revolutionnaires disbanded from March 1794.
Elimination of rival factions
March 1794 - Saint-Just denounces the Hebertists and the Indulgents (Danton and Desmoulins). Hebertists executed 24 March 1794. Dantonists executed 5 April 1794. Triumvirate established (Robespierre, Couthon, Saint-Just).
Cult of Supreme Being
March 1794 - deism replaces atheism. May 1794 - state religion. June 1794 - Festival of Supreme Being.
Law of 22 Prairial
June 1794. Proposed by Couthon, made revolutionary tribunal in Paris quicker.
Great Terror
June-July 1794: 1284 death sentences compared to previous 2 months (577).
Coup of Thermidor
26 July 1794 - Robespierre accused CGS of conspiring against public liberty. 27 July 1794 - Failed Saint-Just speech and decrees were passed. 28 July 1794 - executions.
