The National Convention, the Jacobins and the Terror

19th March 1793

Summary execution decree

6th April 1793

Committee of Public Safety established

6000

How many were recruited for the armées revolutionaires in Paris?

30,000

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

17th September 1793

Law of Suspects

3rd October 1793

The trial of Brissot and the other Girondin deputies begins

31st October 1793

Brissot and 21 other Girondins sent to the guillotine

10th November 1793

The Festival of Reason (De-Christianisation)

Hébert

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

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

20th December 1793

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

**24th March 1794**

Hébert and 18 of his allies executed

May 1794

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

Early 1793

The First Coalition formed

To coordinate the war effort

Why was the CPS created?

March 1793

When was the Vendée rising?

20,000

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

Over 8,700

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

1st May 1793

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

13th July 1783

When was Marat murdered?

2nd June 1793

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

84

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

10th June 1794

When was the Law of Prairial?

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

What did the Law of Prairial do?

Catherine Théot

French visionary whose followers saw the redeemer of humankind in Robespierre

June 1794

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

Carnot

Who accused Robespierre and Saint-Just of being dictators?

Robespierre’s police bureau

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

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?

26th July 1794

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

28th July 1794

Robespierre, his brother, Saint-Just and associates guillotined

October 1792

When was the Committee of General Security established?

To act as political police and send suspects to the tribunal

Why was CGS introduced?

1251 between March 93 and June 94

How many people were killed by the tribunal?

To make sure conscription requirements for the army were being met

Why were Representatives on Mission initially introduced?

4th December 1793

When was the Law of Frimaire?

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

What did the Law of Frimaire do?

May 1793

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

80,000

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

13th July 1793

When was Marat murdered?

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

Sans-culottes demands (preconditions for terror)