Terror: Outcomes Flashcards
Terror in rural counter-revolutions
Over 70% of all executions were from the Vendee Uprising and Federalist Revolts
Executions of the Hebertists
31 March 1794
Executions of the Dantonists
5 April 1794
Simon Schama - Terror/Violence
From the very beginning - from the Summer of 1789 - violence was the motor of the revolution
Alfred Soboul - Necessity of Terror
The Terror, therefore, was in essence an instrument of national and revolutionary defence against rebels and traitors. In this sense it was an important factor if victory was to be won
Doyle - Causes of Terror
it was resistance that made the revolution become violent
Battle of Fleurus
26 June 1794
Intensification of the Terror stat
From
10 March 1793 - 10 June 1794
1250 people in Paris were executed
From 10 June 1794 - 27 July 1794
1375 people in Paris were executed
Andress - Progression of Terror
A tightening spiral of repression, persecution, and the pursuit of ideological purity, ending with a procession of innocents to the guillotine
Total death tolls of the Terror
Including the Vendee, Federalist uprisings and Paris, it is estimated around 200,000 died in the period of terror