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The Reign of Terror

 * Convention set up an emergency group called the committee of public safety.
 * 12 members power to do anything to save france.
 * ran france strict fashion. impose harsh punishments on opponents.


 * The Law of Suspects **
 * Terror begain with a law of suspects, citizens in everytown draw up lists of peoplethey suspected of opposing the governemnt.
 * by their behaviour their contacts their words or their writings, showed themselves to be enemies of liebrty.
 * quater million suspects arrested.
 * sent to paris for trial by Revolutionary Tribunal.( special court, deal with political offences.)
 * impose senteces of imprisonment, deportation or death.
 * half were death


 * The guillotine **
 * death sentences carried out by beheading prisoners. gullotine did the job.
 * quicker and less painful that methods of execution used ebfore. 17000 suspects were executed by guillotine, first was marie antoinette.


 * Terror in the Provinces **
 * took strong mearsures to crush revolts.
 * over 100 representatives of the convention were sent to provinces with instructions to do naything necessary to retore order.
 * Vendee biggest revolt took place.
 * guillotine too slow to execute captured rebels, drowned them in boat loads in the river of loure.(arond 2000 died)
 * lined up in front of graves, blasted into them with cannon fire.


 * Terror in the Armies **
 * August 1793, convention orered Mass Levy, of the french people.
 * Take an active part in war effort. unmarried had to join, married make weapons for them. Women make tents, serve in hospitals, children make bandages and gunpowder.
 * increased french army to 800,000 men. three times the size of the Coalitions armies.
 * generals who did not win battles were replaced


 * Economic Terror **
 * tried to halt rise in food prices, law of the maximum in septemebr 1793.
 * prices of forty goods corn flour firewook and oil stay fixed.
 * breaking maximum carried the death penalty.


 * Terror and the Church **
 * terror led to dissapearance of christianity.
 * no longer superstition. sans culottes closed churches robbed them of their bells and silver.
 * Cult fo reason based on revolutionary ideas such as Liberty took the place of christianity.
 * Convention introduced a new calender. years no longer counted from teh birth of christ but form sept. 1792 republic founded.
 * 1792-3 was renamed year one, took place in year two.
 * each year divided into twelve third day months, names descrbing weatehr, growing seasons, months divided into three ten day weeks, sunday, abloished.


 * Results of the Terror **
 * committee of public saftey achieved what it set out to do.
 * Saved france from collapse.
 * 1794 french driven enemies right out of france, occupid Austrian netherlands, representatives on mission crushed all the revolts in provinces.
 * avoided famine.
 * 35,000-40,000 people had been executed or had died in filthy over crowded prisons.
 * committe 12 man dictatorship


 * The Coup of Thermidor **
 * Summer of 1794 committe unpopular
 * Convention disliekd how it had so much power.
 * could not see any need for the terror now that revolts over, france winning war.
 * sans culotts suporters unhappy, wages held down by maximum law.
 * prices still rising
 * Year two, (july 27th 1784-9) convention get rid of the committes leading memebr, robespierre, along with his supporters.
 * 21 arrested guillotined the following day.
 * 96 the day after.
 * Robespierre dead, convnetion reduced the power of the committee. freed hungreds of suspects, abolished maximum law.
 * no more revolutionary tribunal.
 * end of terror


 * Summary **
 * Throughout this chapter France went through much change. Revolution got out of hand and a lot of things were setup. The san coulettes, convention, king louis was dethroned and beheaded in public. France declared war on Austria, food prices continued to spike up, inflation took place due to the abuse of printing paper notes. Everyone was able to carry weapons, which essentially they could do anything they want.**
 * A Committee of Saftey was also set up, which turned out to be more of a 12 man dictatorship. The main goal of teh Committee of safety was to save france at all costs. Many people were accused of helping the enemies, they were all arrested, and lots of them were executed. They also had all peoeple in france to partispate in the army, which increased the foreces of the french army. Terror spread to all of france, christianity was also replaced by the ideas of revolution. Later on the committee of safety was gotten rid of by convention and who ever supported it.**

**Questions** What are some of the harsh ways people were executed before the gullotine? What happened to Louis;s children?

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