THE REIGN OF TERROR  

The reign of terror was a year long period that the committee of public safety executed the people who were found guilty of being an enemy of the government. The leader of the committee Maximilien Robespierre took harsh measures against their enemies many who were nobles and priests. Robespierre believed that there should be no mercy on those found guilty. In the first few months, many were arrested and about 1400 were executed. The executions took place at the guillotines, which were machines that would chop off their victims head. Overall, at least 300,000 were arrested and 17,000 were officially executed but many died in the prisons without a trial. The reign of  terror ended on July 27^th ,1794 when Robespierre was arrested, than executed. 

by:Morgan Caswell 

Maximilien Robespierre was born in Aras, France. He went to school at age eight and was a star pupil. He was chosen out of hundreds of students to deliver a welcoming speech to the King of France  Louis XVI at age 17. He was a believer of Jean-Jacques Roseau and his enlightenment thinking. He studied law and became a lawyer, interested in helping the poor. Later on he joined the Committee of Public Safety and soon he became the leader. He was the man in charge and deciding all of the executions during the reign of terror. He was killed in 1794.

by:Morgan Caswell   

        The Jacobins where radical French political club that played a controlling part in the French revolution. It was the society of friends of the constitution, the name the Jacobins was derived from the meeting place. The revolutionary leaders comte de mirabeau and Maximilien Robespierre were early members of the club and Robespierre subsequently became the principal figure. When 3000 members of Paris, the club had national scope through its control of 1200 related societies throughout France. Its enormous political power that resulted the close organization of these many affiliated groups and from the skillful hold on the public opinion that had been exercised by Jacobin leaders. The clubs outset was in favor of a constitutional, absolute monarchy, but after the attempted escape from France of Kind Louis XVI in 1791, which the Jacobins turned against any form of the royal rule. Simultaneously, with the formation which the national convention, the French representative had assembly from 1792 to 1795, the club reached the zenith of its power; no important action was undertaken by the National Convention until the matter had first been discussed in the meetings of the Jacobins.by: erica lewis

        Moderate Republican faction active in the French revolution from 1791 to 1793. Called Girondins because many of their prominent members represented the department of Gironde, they were also named Brissotins, after Jacques Pierre Brissotins, one of their leaders. The group first emerged in the Assembly elected in October 1791. It was originally identified with the Jacobins, but the two groups split on the issue of war with Austria, which the Girondins favored, believing it would unite France behind the French Revolution. It Led by Brissotins and Jean Marie Roland de La Platière, they persuaded the assembly to vote for war in April 1792. After that their influence declined. Opponents of the economic controls and radical democracy favored by the Paris-based Jacobins, they tried unsuccessfully to win armed support in the provinces in October 1793. When Brissotins and 30 of his followers were the Jacobins on October 31, the power of the Girondins was destroyed. by:Erica lewis.  

References  

http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=21&entryid=309915&searchtext=reign+of+terror&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=5

"Reign of Terror." World History: The Modern Era. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 2 Mar. 2009 <http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com>.

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