Week 24- Robespierre's attempts to establish wartime control Flashcards
Who implemented measures to establish wartime control?
Mainly supported by the Jacobins who wanted to win the ‘wars’ and reassure the Parisian sans-culottes’ whose grievances were mounting.
These measures therefore helped in strengthening Jacobin voice and weakening that of the Girondins.
What measures were introduced in October 1792?
A Committee of General Community (CGS) was set up to take responsibility for policing and administration of justice.
It had to report to the National Convention.
What measures were introduced in February 1793?
A draft of 300,000 men was ordered to be carried out in March.
What measures were introduced in March 1793?
82 représentants-en-mission appointed to ensure loyalty and effective functioning of the départements.
A revolutionary Tribunal was set up to try counter-revolutionaries.
19th March- A new law decreed that rebels bearing arms could be executed without appeal.
What measures were introduced in April 1793?
The Committee of Public Safety (CPS) was set up.
They had the responsibility for the conduct of war, diplomacy, control of the army.
The nine members were elected by the National Convention who they also had to report to.
What was Robespierre’s background?
He was elected to represent the Third Estate at the Estates-General.
He had radical views and was one of the first to join the Breton Club (which would later become the Jacobin club).
What were Robespierre’s initial beliefs?
He was a believer in republicanism, democracy, equality and the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
In his first months in the Convention, he expressed his opposition to slavery, revolutionary war in Europe, the use of capital punishment and the excessive use of violence.
However, his views would radicalise with the revolution.
