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Jason Brown jsbrown@comcast.net -the **Reign of Terror** was the period of violence during the French Revolution between the death of Louis XVI in 1793 and the death of Maximilien Robespierre in 1794 -Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were the first to be killed -guillotine was a symbol for the infamous executions during the French Revolution -executions considered educational -over 30,000 to 40,000 lives lost in France during the event -the percentage of people killed included 8% aristocrats,6% clergymen,14% middle class, and 70% peasents who opposed the revolution -Maximilien Robespierre was the mastermind behind the Reign of Terror and ironically the last person to be executed during the Reign of Terror -the revolutionary government was opposed by former French nobility when they lost their inherited privileges and the Catholic Church which had turned the clergy into employees of the state and were required to take an oath of loyalty to France - the Reign of Terror was caused by the de facto dictatorship that resulted during the French national convention which would have decided what kind of government that the government would have been after the revolution was over -People were ordiany people and not aristocrats -About 17,000 people were brought before the revolutionary Tribunal and were condemned to death. -In Vendee more than 50,000 men fought the revolutionary government, their symbol was Sacred Heart of Jesus, with a large cross over it. -in 1793, a document called the Law of Suspects was passed and empowered local committees of surveillance to draw up lists of suspects and order their arrest including suspicion of being an enemy of liberty, an advocate of tyranny, or a supporter of federalism -0.5 percent of France's population (70,000 people) were arrested under the Law of Suspects -Robespierre wanted to take even more drastic measures for determining oppositions towards the revolution and members of the national convention would arrest and execute Robespierre and his loyal followers out ot fear that they would be executed under the proposed conditionsand ended the Reign of Terror for good

Maximilien Robespierre Came to control the Committee of Public Safety. He unleashed the Reign of Terror in which about 18 000 people were executed by guillotine for counterrevolutionary activities (activities for the king and against the revolution). Many had supported the Revolution but thought that Robespierre had gone too far.



-Famous quote //**"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible" by** //**//Maximilien Robespierre //  **

-HistoryWiz: The Reign of Terror. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from HistoryWiz Web site: http://www.historywiz.com/terror.htm -Reign of Terror. Retrieved November 24, 2008, from wikipedia Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror -Merriman J. (2006). //Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire Vol. 4//. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner & sons __-Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900, The French Revolution__ by Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey -(2007). The reign of terror. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from Infoplease.com Web site: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858287.html
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