Anthony Nguyen World History H 8/10/15 Honors World History Summer Assignment The Reign of Terror started on September 5, 1793 and ended on July 28, 1794. The Reign of Terror was a violence period that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution. It was directed by Robespierre of the Committee of Public Safety to institute a rule in France as a national emergency. Originally the Committee of Public Safety was created to preserve the reforms of the French Revolution. The twelve members of the Committee of Public Safety were Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, Lazare Carnot, Georges Couthon, M. J. Hérault de Séchelles, Maximilien Robespierre, and Louis de Saint-Just and the Hébertists, J. N. Billaud-Varenne and J. N. Collot d'Herbois. Robespierre …show more content…
Of the two groups, though both were radical, the Girondins were less radical and became arising power in 1791. During this time the two groups hoped to pass legislation allowing all blacks equal freedoms. The two groups also wanted to go to war with Austria in 1792 in hopes of showing power over them. As a result of all of these new found politics of the Girondins, the Jacobins began to counter react in opposition to the …show more content…
He then of the Reign of Terror. He justified his action by explaining how the terror would help to the Republic of France in a speech as quoted: “If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible...It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed.” After a year of the Reign of Terror, the Jacobins parties who were supporters of Robespierre, came to feel that the Terror must be stopped. So when Robespierre called for a new purge in 1794, he seemed to threaten the other members of the Committee of Public Safety. The Jacobins had enough so they had Robespierre arrested and sent to the guillotine the next day, ending him as the last victim of the Reign of Terror. In the aftermath of the Reign of Terror, over thousands of people were guillotined, and over 200,000 were