Terror

Question 1

1792-94 deaths

Answer 1

40,000 victims, 17,000 guillotined.

Question 2

Revolutionary tribunal cases

Answer 2

March-September 1793: 260 cases. September - December 1794: 500,000 cases.

Question 3

Show trials

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Carrier

Answer 4

November 1793 - January 1794: 2,000 executed in noyades at Nantes.

Question 5

Fouche

Answer 5

December 1793: Mitraillades saw 935 prisoners killed.

Question 6

Dechristianisation

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Law of 14 Frimaire

Answer 7

4 December 1793 - CPS centralised control. Armees revolutionnaires disbanded from March 1794.

Question 8

Elimination of rival factions

Answer 8

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).

Question 9

Cult of Supreme Being

Answer 9

March 1794 - deism replaces atheism. May 1794 - state religion. June 1794 - Festival of Supreme Being.

Question 10

Law of 22 Prairial

Answer 10

June 1794. Proposed by Couthon, made revolutionary tribunal in Paris quicker.

Question 11

Great Terror

Answer 11

June-July 1794: 1284 death sentences compared to previous 2 months (577).

Question 12

Coup of Thermidor

Answer 12

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.