the white terror

Question 1

when and where

Answer 1

summer 1794-spring 1796

Question 2

what was it?

Answer 2

anti jacobin backlash
it has little political ideology behind it, it was merely revenge against those associated with the terror regime

Question 3

who?

Answer 3

carried out by hands and militias
companies of jesus in lyon and companies of the sun in nimes were royalists

Question 4

white terror in paris

Answer 4

carried out by muscadins and la jeunesse doree, who had their own subculture e.g clothes hair songs

they formed gangs to beat up and intimidate jacobins and the sans culottes

forced the closure of pro jacobin newspapers and the jacobin club

Question 5

White terror in the south east

Answer 5

in may 1795, gangs carried out prison massacres (reminiscent of september massacres

massacres and street murders cost as many as 2,900 lives in 1795

violence continued into 1796 and 97

Question 6

white terror in the west

Answer 6

guerilla warfare in the vendee
a royalist movement, the chouannerie, in brittany took shape
law and order broke down outside the towns
june 1795 the chouans, who were lreasanrs. we’re supported by 3,000 emigres and the british