The French Revolution had many different people leading it, but the main person that was in charge was Renespierre. Robespierre was on the Committee of Public Safety leader. The Committee of Public Safety was in charge of the French Revolution. They were also the group that was in charge of the people of France too. The Committee of Public Safety did not protect the revolution from its enemies because they were putting innocent people in custody, and they would justify the use of terror to make the people of France listen to them.
The Committee of Public Safety did not protect the revolution from its enemies because they were putting innocent people in custody. The reason that they put innocent people in custody was because of the Law of Suspects. The Law of Suspects was a thing that the Committee of Public
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There were many other reasons you could have been placed in custody. Document B: Law of Suspects states that “Immediately after the publication of the present decree, all suspected persons within the territory of the Republic and still at liberty shall be placed in custody.” There are five reasons that you can be placed in custody. They are stated as, “those who, by their conduct, associations, talk, or writings have shown themselves to be enemies of liberty. those who are unable to justify their means of existence and the performance of their civic duties. those to whom certificates of patriotism have been refused. Public officials suspended or removed from office by the National Assembly or its members but not reinstated. those former nobles, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons or daughters, brothers or sisters of émigrés, who have not steadily demonstrated their devotion to the Revolution.” These