Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The year 1793, a very horrible time in France. They just had their revolution, and everybody was going mad. This was the time that many people didn't want to loose their power, or people who wanted it back. That all triggered to the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the French Revolution , which was conflict between rival political parties, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Estimates of how many were killed were widely, from 16,000 to 40,000 deaths,in many cases, records were not kept.

French government created the Committee of Public Safety , which was created on September 6th 1793 and was dominated by Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre wanted to completely wipe out the whole idea of "monarchy." He even took off the kings, queens, and jokers off common household items, like a deck of cards for example. He was the dictator during the terror. He exucuted people who didnt agree on his ideas, sort of a hitler figure. He closed down most churches at well. The exucations were carried out by the Girondins.