THE TERROR

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  • Terror
    • Foundations of the Terror
      • Political
        • Jan 1973: EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI
        • attacked sans-culottes as 'buveur de sang'
      • War
        • Sep 1792: Austrians defeated at Verdun and Valmy (and Jemappes)
          • threat to Paris removed: justied revolution
            • offensive tactic: successfully advanced along Rhine
              • aim to restore the 'natural frontiers'
                • Nov 1792: decree of fraternity
                  • WAR OF THE FIRST COALITION
                    • Feb - Mar 1793: Convention declared war with everyone
                      • Feb: Britain + Netherlands
                        • to fund war, printed more   assignats
                          • inflation: 50% fall in power
                            • food prices + shortage, etc.
                            • widespread riots grain stores and demands price controls and requisitioning
                              • food prices + shortage, etc.
                      • Mar: Spain
                      • state factories for arms and ammunition
                        • church bells melted down
                          • gov ordered levy 300,000
                            • Vendee uprising
                          • Mar 1793: failure at Neerwinden + Dumouriez defected to Austrians
                            • Aug 1973: Carnot ordered levee en mass
                            • state factories for arms and ammunition
                              • church bells melted down
                                • gov ordered levy 300,000
                                  • Vendee uprising
                                • Mar 1793: failure at Neerwinden + Dumouriez defected to Austrians
                                  • Aug 1973: Carnot ordered levee en mass
                • annexation of Avignon, Nice, Savoy
      • Social
        • federalist revolts
          • uprisings against convention
            • Vendee: Feb 1793
              • May - Jun 1793
                • Lyon, Marseille, Toulon
                  • federal revolts suppressed by end 1793
                    • Jan-May 1794: provincial represssion
          • economic difficulties, inflation, rising food prices, bread shortages
            • uprisings against convention
              • Vendee: Feb 1793
                • May - Jun 1793
                  • Lyon, Marseille, Toulon
                    • federal revolts suppressed by end 1793
                      • Jan-May 1794: provincial represssion
            • protest first levee + levee en mass
      • background of crises 1793
        • military defeat, civil war, political + economic issues, anti-republican opposition
          • Machinery of the Terror
            • CPS
              • Committee of Public Safety
                • role of strong government
              • twin pillars of enforcement
                • CGS
                  • Committee of General Security
                    • discover anti-republican opposition
            • CGS
              • Committee of General Security
                • discover anti-republican opposition
            • reps-on-mission
              • assert central control over provinces
            • Comités de surveillance
              • surveillance committees find suspects
            • Revolutionary Tribunal
              • try counter-rev suspects
                • May 1794: abolished prov. tribunals
                  • forced: Paris rev. tribunal
                    • The Great Terror
                      • Law of Prairial: 'enemies of people
                    • 10 Jun
                    • 27 Jul
                      • The Great Terror
                        • Law of Prairial: 'enemies of people
            • Summary execution decree
              • rebel trial + execution in 24 hours
          • March-May: Convention measures
      • Provincial Repression
        • The Armee Revolutionaire
          • Terror
            • Foundations of the Terror
              • Political
                • Jan 1973: EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI
                • attacked sans-culottes as 'buveur de sang'
              • War
                • Sep 1792: Austrians defeated at Verdun and Valmy (and Jemappes)
                  • threat to Paris removed: justied revolution
                    • offensive tactic: successfully advanced along Rhine
                      • aim to restore the 'natural frontiers'
                        • Nov 1792: decree of fraternity
                          • WAR OF THE FIRST COALITION
                            • Feb - Mar 1793: Convention declared war with everyone
                              • Feb: Britain + Netherlands
                                • to fund war, printed more   assignats
                                  • inflation: 50% fall in power
                                    • widespread riots grain stores and demands price controls and requisitioning
                                • Mar: Spain
                          • annexation of Avignon, Nice, Savoy
                • Social
                  • federalist revolts
                    • economic difficulties, inflation, rising food prices, bread shortages
                      • protest first levee + levee en mass
                • background of crises 1793
                  • military defeat, civil war, political + economic issues, anti-republican opposition
                    • Machinery of the Terror
                      • CPS
                        • Committee of Public Safety
                          • role of strong government
                        • twin pillars of enforcement
                        • reps-on-mission
                          • assert central control over provinces
                        • Comités de surveillance
                          • surveillance committees find suspects
                        • Revolutionary Tribunal
                          • try counter-rev suspects
                            • May 1794: abolished prov. tribunals
                              • forced: Paris rev. tribunal
                                • 10 Jun
                                • 27 Jul
                          • Summary execution decree
                            • rebel trial + execution in 24 hours
                        • March-May: Convention measures
                    • Provincial Repression
                      • The Armee Revolutionaire
                        • threatened Convention with direct action
                          • 4 Sep: crowd gathered Hotel de Ville bread/higher wages
                            • 5 Sep: marched on Convention
                              • 'Terror as the order of the day'
                                • formation of armee
                                  • requisitioning, suspect round, rev. justice
                                    • 'Terror as the order of the day'
                                      • formation of armee
                                        • requisitioning, suspect round, rev. justice
                            • Jacques Roux
                        • Jan-May 1794
                          • surrendered shot w/o trial
                        • troops moved through areas
                          • shoot all peasant, burn farm/crops, kill animals, noyades
                            • 72% of the 16600 execs, 12000 in rebel areas
                    • threatened Convention with direct action
                      • 4 Sep: crowd gathered Hotel de Ville bread/higher wages
                        • 5 Sep: marched on Convention
                        • Jacques Roux
                    • Jan-May 1794
                      • surrendered shot w/o trial
                    • troops moved through areas
                      • shoot all peasant, burn farm/crops, kill animals, noyades
                        • 72% of the 16600 execs, 12000 in rebel areas
                • May: situation so grave 30,000 troops withdrawn from front
                • 1973:  PURGE OF GIRONDINS
                  • supported dumouriez and federalist revolts
                    • 26 May: Robespierre called for insurrection against corrupt
                      • 31 May: Rising began against Girondin deputies
                        • 2 June: 80,000 NG surrounded Convention, directed their cannon at it
                          • Demanded Girondin expulsion, max price on all essential goods
                            • First time armed force being used against an elected assembly
                              • Jul-Sep: new radical CPS formed
                          • *13 Jul 1973: Corday and Marat bath murder
                • Dominance of the Sans-Culottes
                  • exercise own power: direct democracy
                    • have force to seize power
                      • responsible for journees
                        • Concessions
                          • 24 Jun 1793: presents new constitution
                            • right to work, education, insurrection, vote (males)
                              • conscription: levee en masse (Aug)
                                • economic: maximum, anti-hoard laws (Sep)
                                  • Economic Terror
                                    • Sep 1973: General Maximum
                                      • fixed prices
                                        • armee sent to enforce max:  town/country conflicts
                          • First time armed force being used against an elected assembly
                            • Jul-Sep: new radical CPS formed
                          • Demanded Girondin expulsion, max price on all essential goods
                  • The Enrages
                    • economic terror to end starvation + poverty
                      • Summer 1793 assignat < 1/3 face value, drough reduced grain supplies
                    • Hebertistes: (political extremism) Mar 1794
                      • Danton + Indulgents: call for peace Apr 1794
                      • Opposition

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