What Caused the Terror?
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- Created on: 16-03-18 11:40
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- What Caused the Terror?
- Expulsion of the Girondins lead to less opposition to Montagnards
- Thibaudeau said "the sessions became calm and unimpassioned"
- There was no debate, anyone who disagreed were declared as a "royalist" or "Girondin"
- Robespierre joining the CPS in July 1793
- CPS could over-ride executive council, it practically became the government.
- If 2/3 of the CPS agreed on something, it HAD to be passed by the Executive Council
- Had control over the Representatives-en-mission
- The safeguards to stop the CPS from being too powerful didn't work
- Supposed to be 9-12 people in the CPS but Robespierre dominated it with Carnot and Saint-Just
- Supposed to report to convention every week, but they never tell CPS to do anything differently
- Conventions controlled finances but gave CPS money they wanted due to fear
- They were determined to destroy counter-revolution and advance the war effort
- Robespierre called the terror "prompt, severe justice"
- Schama views violence was inherent from the start- culmination of violence that WAS the revolution
- Increasing Role of the Sans-Culottes
- 29th September- New Law of General Maximum laid down maximum price for grain, oil, etc.
- 17th September- Law of Suspects as a result of demands for attacks on those oppressing the people.
- Allowed them to find Charlotte Cordet, who killed Marat
- Terror introduced to restrain excessive violence of the Sans-Culottes
- Danton said "let us be terrible in order to stop the people from being so"
- Expulsion of the Girondins lead to less opposition to Montagnards
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