Committee of General Security
- Created by: Lucy Scott
- Created on: 10-05-16 17:46
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- Committee of General Security
- Task: Rooting out all anti-republican opposition
- Summary: Overall responsibility for police security, surveillance and spying
- 10th March 1793: Revolutionary Tribunal set up in Paris to try counter-revolutionary suspects
- Intended to prevent massacres
- One of the main instruments of the Terror
- Representatives-on-mission sent to provinces, because of resistance to conscription and Dumouriez's defection
- Almost unlimited powers over the department and the armies
- Intended as first stage in reasserting control over the provinces
- Comites de surveillance set up in each commmune and all major towns
- Because royalist plots were blamed for the Vendee Rebellion
- Provided many victims for the Revolutionary Tribunal
- Summary execution decree: provided trial and execution of armed rebels within 24 hours of capture
- No jury and no appeal
- Condemned more victims than the Revolutionary tribunal itself
- Harsh laws passed against emigres: land confiscated and executed if they returned back to France
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