APRIL 6 1792 NATIONAL CONVENTION CREATES COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY

SEP 1 GENERAL MOBILIZATION, CITIZENTS SENT TO THE FRONT

SEP 2 DANTON INSTIGATES THE MASSACRE OF ABOUT 1200 ROYALISTS

SEP 5 REIGN OF TERROR BEGINS; LASTS MORE THAN 10 MONTHS

SEP 21 FRANCE IS DECLARED REPUBLIC

JAN 21 1793 LOUIS XVI EXCECUTED

OCT 16 MARIE ANTOINETTE IS EXECUTED

JUNE 24 CONSTITUTION OF 1793 IS ESTABLISHED

SEP 29 ROBESPIERRE’S MAXIMUM IMPLEMENTS CEILING ON PRICES

OCT 16 MARIE ANTONETTE IS EXECUTED

JULY 28 1794 ROBESPIERRE’S IS OVERTHROWN

DEC 24 MAXIMUM IS REPEALED, PRICES SKY ROCKET

• MAXMILIEN ROBESPIERRE- JACOBIAN LEADER WHO SIEZED CONTROL OF

NATIONAL CONVENTION AND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC

SAFETY; LATER INSTITUTED REIGN OF TERROR,

TARGETTING THOSE WHOSE PHILOSOPHIES DIFFERED

FROM HIS OWN

• GEORGE DANTON - LONGTIME JACOBIAN AND CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF

ROBESPIERRE WHO WAS EXECUTED AFTER HE BEGAN

QUESTIONING THE EXTREMES TO WHICH ROBESPIERRE

WAS GOING IN THE REIGN OF TERROR

• KING LOUIS XVI AND QUEEN MARIE ANTONITTE

• GIRONDINS -NAME GIVEN TO MODERATES IN THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

• JACOBINS -RADICAL WING OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE NATIONAL

CONVENTION, LED BY ROBESPIERRE

• GEORGES- JACQUES DANTON

• CHIEF FORCE IN THE OVERTHROW OF MONARCHY AND

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC

• ELECTED MINISTER OF JUSTICE BY THE LEGISLATIVE

ASSEMBLY

• DOMINATED HIS COLLEGUES

• SEP 2 – DANTON IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

DELIVERED THE MOST FAMOUS SPEECH

“TO CONQUER THE ENEMIES OF THE FATHER LAND, WE

NEED DARING, MORE DARING, DARING NOW AND

ALWAYS AND”

FRANCE IS SAVED

2-3 SEP 1992

• “FIRST TERROR” OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

• MADE A PROFOUND IMPRESSION ABROAD WHERE

THEY WERE PUBLICIZED AS PROOF OF THE

HORRORS OF REVOLUTION

• THE CITY HAD BEEN A SCENE OF VIOLENCE AND

BLOODSHED

.

• THERE WAS NO AUTHORITATIVE BODY OTHER THAN RADICAL COMMUNE

• THE PRISONS WERE FULL OF INMATES, MOST OF WHOM HAD BEEN

ROUNDED UP BY THE COMMUNE AND THE MOB AFTER THE TUILERIES

ASSAULT IN AUGUST

• THE MASSACRES WAS AN EXPRESSION OF THE COLLECTIVE MENTALITY IN

PARIS IN THE DAYS AFTER THE OERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY

• THE ACTUAL KILLING BEGAN ON SEP 2

• IN THE NEXT 4 DAYS, THE MASSACRE SPREAD TO THE OTHER PRISONS OF

THE CITY

• THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES WERE POWERLESS TO STOP THEM

• ABOUT 1200 PRISONERS WERE KILLED

• BRUTAL KILLING

• MEANWHILE, VOLUNTEERS WERE POURING INTO THE ARMY AS THE

REVOLUTION HAD AWAKENED FRENCH NATIONALISM

• HAPPENS IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE WAR

• FOLLOWS THE REIGN OF TERROR

• THE TERROR / LA TERREAUR

• SEP 5, 1793 – JULY 29, 1794

• CAUGHT UP IN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN WAR, THE REVOLUTIONARY

GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO MAKE “TERROR” THE ORDER OF THE DAY

• HARSH MEASURES AGAINST ENEMIES (NOBLES, PRIESTS,

HOARDERS)

• IN PARIS – WAVE OF WAVE OFEXECUTION FOLLOWED

MONARCHY ABOLISHED

• NATIONAL CONVENTION

• SUFFRAGE TO ALL MALE CITIZENS

• VOTED TO ABOLISH MONARCHY

• DECLARED FRANCE AS REPUBLIC

• DEATH OF KING AND QUEEN

THE CONVENTION DEFENDS THE REPUBLIC

• COUNTRY AT WAR AT ALL SIDES WITH

EUROPE

• VENDEE REGION- PRIESTS LED

PEASANT REBELLION AGAINST THE

GOVERNMENT

• SANS- CULOTTES DEMANDED RELIEF

FROM FOOD SHORTAGE AND INFLATION

SANS CULOTTES

• 12 MEMBER COMMITTEE ALMOST

LED ABSOLUTE POWER

• PREPARED FRANCE FOR ALL OUT

WAR BETWEEN REBELS IN THE

COUNTRY AND EUROPE

MARIE ANTOINETTE TO TRIAL

ROBESPIERRE

• LEADER OF THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY

• THE INCORRUPTABLE

• “TERROR IS THE ONLY JUSTICE, PROMPT, SECURE AND INFLUXIBLE”

• “LIBERTY CANNOT BE SECURED UNLESS CRIMINALS LOSE THEIR HEADS”

• FESTIVAL OF SUPREME BEING

• OVER 40,000 PEOPLE

WERE KILLED

• GUILLOTIN BECAME A

SYMBOL OF HORROR

• REIGN OF TERROR

CONSUMED IT’S OWN

• ROBESPIERRE WAS

ARRESTED , EXECUTED