WAS THE TERROR 'PROMPT, SEVERE, INFLEXIABLE' JUSTICE OR SIMPLY NOT JUSTICE AT ALL

Question 1

Committee of general security

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 1

• Date- Oct 1793
• Law or institution - Institution
• Responsibility and/or function
  Police committee
  consisted of 12 ppl over saw the administration of
  revol justice
  similar to CPS but CPS had more power
• Reason for introduction
  Creation of CGS was one of the first counter-revolutionary measures taken by CPS.

Question 2

Representatives on a mission

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 2

Date - March 1793
- Law or institution - institution
- Responsibility and/or function
Oversee the levy (enlist (someone) for military)
Two rep. were sent to each dept.
Over time, these were most Jacobins.
Their role became wider over time: Some
denounced local officials, some were involved
in brutal suppression of federal revolts.
Due to their poorly defined roles.
e.g. d’Herbpis, leading mem of CPS acting as rep for Lyon, Ordered execution of 1,900 ppl following Fed revol.
- Reason for introduction
To ensure that conscription req. for the army were met.

Question 3

Revolutionary Tribunal

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 3

• Date - 10 March 1793
• Law or institution - Institution
• Responsibility and/or function
  Est. under the CGS authority.
  Tried suspects accused of C-R activity.
  Normal court.
  However, Judges and jurors were hand-picked
  by the committee.
  Death was the only conviction.
  1,251 ppl executed bet march 1793 and June 1794.
• Reason for introductionDANTON - ‘NECESSARY’ - PWR NEEDED TO BE TAKEN OUT OF S-C HANDS INTO THE STATE.

Question 4

Watch Committee

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 4

• Date - March 1793
• Law or institution- institution
• Responsibility and/or function
  12 ppl
  Resp for monitoring all foreign + sus individuals. C-R
  activity.
  Issue certificates of Patriotism.
  After law of sus - drew up a list of people shall be
  sent to the guillotine.
• Reason for introduction
  The war, fear of emigres and C-R plots e.g. like fed or vendee
  =GOV sus of foreigners.

Question 5

Law sentencing Rebels to death

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 5

• Date - 19 March 1793
• Law or institution - Law
• Responsibility and/or function
  Outlawed rebels meaning that
  Gave R.O.M right to act severely- accused
  Rebels captured bearing arms or possessing royalist insignia were sent to death within 24hrs
  As many as 10,000 -12,000 were put to death under the law of march 19.
• Reason for introduction
  Provoked by the rising in vendee.

Question 6

Law of suspects

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 6

• Date - SEP 1793
• Law or institution - Law
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Question 7

Committee of public safety

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 7

• Date - 6 April 1793
• Law or institution- Institution
• Responsibility and/or function
  Committee, of 12 ppl
  From April to July 10, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was dominated by Georges Danton and his followers, failed to deal adequately with the precarious military situation. Replaced in July by men more radical in the defence of the Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre.
  Overseeing revolutionary justice within Paris
• Reason for introduction
  Foreign advancing upon France + civil war

Question 8

Armees revolutionnaires

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 8

• Date - sep 1793
• Law or institution institution
• Responsibility and/or function
  These were sans-culottes army tasked with requisitioning grain supplies and track down those suspected of hoarding food.
  Provincial armies totalled 30,000 in no.
  The armies also played a role in avenging the fed revolts and pursuing de-Christianisation.
• Reason for introduction
  To appease the crowds
  Sans-culottes wanted people wanted to be held accountable for hoarding.

Question 9

Law of suspects

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 9

• Date - 17 sep 1793
• Law or institution- LAW
• Responsibility and/or function
  It was open to abuse due to a vague definition.
  It claimed that anyone who was an enemy of ‘liberty’ or had no ‘constantly demonstrated their devotion to the R. MADE IT A CRIME;
  Not being enthusiastic about R changes
  IN Paris alone, 50 new prisons had to be created 7,000 suspects were detained. By following summer detainees across France rose to 300,000.
  aprox. 10,000 nay have perished(die in a sudden way) while imprisoned
• Reason for introduction
  Sans-culottes demanded tougher actions on the enemies of the R.
  The press told them the the – that the counter-rev ppl (peasants) responsible as well for their poverty.

Question 10

Law of frimaire

• Date
• Law or institution
• Responsibility and/or function
• Reason for introduction

Answer 10

• Date - 4 Dec 1793
• Law or institution - Law
• Responsibility and/or function
  Increased centralised pwr to CPS e.g. CPS pwr to purge local gov officials.
  As local officials were elected by communities (communes and departments, the rev gov questioned their loyalty to the central gov in paris.
  As a result, this law said that all local officials had to be placed under supervision of a national agent.
• Reason for introduction
  In response to the federalist revolt and Vendee rising