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The Terror I

• Vendee Rebellion

  • Provincial opposition to sonscription

  • Out with the Girondinds

  • Sans-culottess invade Convention, expel and arrest

Committee of Public Saftey (CPS)

• A form of executive authroity

• Robespierre’s Policy of Terror

  • A question of Ends and Means : The justification for the extreme measures taken during the Reign of Terror was often debated, highlighting the struggle between achieving revolutionary goals and the moral implications of violent tactics.

  • Crushing the Rebellions in the provinces

    • -20,000 executed, hog tied and thrown into rivers

    • Parisian Radicalism

      • Price controls (can afford food)

      • From Pris to the country

      • Suspected political opposition

      • Suspected political opposition

      • Revolutionary tribunals

      • The Guilotine

        • Designed to be enlightned and rational

        • Propesed as the instrument of Revolutionary voplence in 1789 it was humaine

        • A mahine that kills everyone the same, with minimal error, and no regard for social position

The Terror II

• “Revolutionary until the Peace”

  • Centralized & authoritarian in order to consolidate the ideals of the Revolution

• Final Frenzy(Great Terror)

Napoleonic Europe

• Early Successes & Image

  • 1796: Commander of the Army of Italy

  • 1797: French control the Austrian Netherlands

  • 1798: Egypt?

• Diectory to consulate

  • 1799:coup to establish COnsulate

  • First Consul Napolean

• How/Why

  • Concordat, 1801

A Trip to Saint-Domingue(Hati)

• Revolts

  • Free People of Color

  • Enslaved People, make up 89% of the population

Emperor Napoleon