Committee of Public Safety
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- Committee of Public Safety
- Set up by the Convention on 6th April 1793
- Task: Supervise and speed up the activities of ministers
- NOT a dictatorship, depended on support from the Convention- approved its powers monthly
- Seven of the nine members were from the Plain
- No Girondins
- Other two from the Montagnards, including Danton himself
- 4th May: Maximum price fixed for grain
- Compulsory for wealthy to loan money to the government
- Trying to win support for the Republic, by satisfying the needs of the sans culottes
- Trying to win support for the Republic, by satisfying the needs of the sans culottes
- Compulsory for wealthy to loan money to the government
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