Reign of terror french revolutionary calendar

The Committee submitted its actions to regular review and its services had to be renewed every month, but at the height of the Terror and during phases when the war did not go well, oppositional members of the Convention had to reckon with the possibility that they themselves would be expelled and compelled to make close acquaintance with 'the republican razor'.

To combat this, emergency measures were called for and the National Convention, elected by universal male franchise, elected the Committee of Public Welfare. Like most of its successors, the original Terror was justified as a necessity, in this case because France was about to be invaded by a coalition as the result of a war started by the 'moderate' Girondins which the Jacobins had at first opposed and then embraced, and was embroiled in civil war. Named after the Reign of Terror in The French Revolution, which lasted less than a year between 1793-1794 in a revolution which lasted anywhere from five to fifteen years note depending on whether you mark the end of the revolution at 27 July 1794 (the Thermidorian Reaction, when the leftward momentum of the revolution permanently ended and the government began to focus on consolidation and stability), 9 November 1799 (the Coup of 18 Brumaire, when NapolГ©on Bonaparte seized control of the French government in a coup d'Г©tat), the crowning of Napoleon as Emperor on in 1804, or some other point in between, but is remembered as its most infamous part, where 16,594 people were sent to the guillotine and at least 25,000 more were summarily executed (all in less than a year, remember - that works out to something like 115 executions a day, or one death every fifteen minutes, non-stop).

Reign of terror french revolutionary calendar