The National Convention, the Jacobins and the Terror

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19th March 1793

Summary execution decree

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6th April 1793

Committee of Public Safety established

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6000

How many were recruited for the armées revolutionaires in Paris?

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30,000

How many were recruited for the armées revolutionaires in the provinces?

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17th September 1793

Law of Suspects

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3rd October 1793

The trial of Brissot and the other Girondin deputies begins

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31st October 1793

Brissot and 21 other Girondins sent to the guillotine

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10th November 1793

The Festival of Reason (De-Christianisation)

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Hébert

Who encouraged people to remove Christian symbols from their churches and turn them into Temples of Reason?

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4th December 1793

Law of Frimaire allows for the purging of government officials, puts the CPS in charge of representatives on mission, bans revolutionary armies outside Paris

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20th December 1793

Desmoulins made a direct appeal to his former ally, Robespierre, in issue four of Le Vieux Cordelier

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24th March 1794

Hébert and 18 of his allies executed

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May 1794

The Cult of the Supreme Being is given formal status by the National Convention

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Early 1793

The First Coalition formed

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To coordinate the war effort

Why was the CPS created?

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March 1793

When was the Vendée rising?

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20,000

By the end of March, an army of [-----] rebels controlled the Vendée

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Over 8,700

How many people were executed in the aftermath of the Vendée rising?

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1st May 1793

When did sans-culottes surround the National Convention demanding bread price controls?

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13th July 1783

When was Marat murdered?

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2nd June 1793

When was the National Convention surrounded by National Guards demanding the arrest of 29 Girondins?

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84

How many generals were guillotined or shot between 1793 and 1794?

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10th June 1794

When was the Law of Prairial?

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Deemed that a defence hearing was no longer necessary during a trial

What did the Law of Prairial do?

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Catherine Théot

French visionary whose followers saw the redeemer of humankind in Robespierre

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June 1794

When did divisions begin to appear within the Committee of Public Safety?

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Carnot

Who accused Robespierre and Saint-Just of being dictators?

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Robespierre’s police bureau

What body began to take over the responsibilities of the CGS during the Great Terror?

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Herbois, Fouché and Billaud-Varenne

Who fabricated the story that R was trying to restore religion because he was under the influence of Catherine Théot?

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26th July 1794

Robespierre appeared at the Convention and told the assembly that he knew the names of more traitors of the revolution

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28th July 1794

Robespierre, his brother, Saint-Just and associates guillotined

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October 1792

When was the Committee of General Security established?

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To act as political police and send suspects to the tribunal

Why was CGS introduced?

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1251 between March 93 and June 94

How many people were killed by the tribunal?

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To make sure conscription requirements for the army were being met

Why were Representatives on Mission initially introduced?

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4th December 1793

When was the Law of Frimaire?

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purging of gov officials, CPS in charge of reps on mission, revolutionary armies outside of Paris banned

What did the Law of Frimaire do?

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May 1793

Robespierre called on the sans-culottes to rise up against the Girondin deputies

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80,000

How many National Guardsmen and sans-culottes surrounded the Convention 2nd June?

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13th July 1793

When was Marat murdered?

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max price cap, army to deal w counter rev, arrest of girondin deputies

Sans-culottes demands (preconditions for terror)

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