Reign of Terror

Name: Reign of Terror
Start: 1793
End: 1794
Location: Paris and all of France

1793–1794 · Paris and all of France · Europe · Politics

Robespierre's committee sends thousands to the scaffold

The Committee of Public Safety under Robespierre made terror a weapon to defend the Revolution: about 17,000 people were executed after trial across France and some 10,000 more died in prison. It ended with the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794), when Robespierre himself went to the guillotine.

State: French First Republic, French First Republic

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