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The Reign of Terror(French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolutionwhen, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacresand numerous public executionstook place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlericalsentiment, and accusations of treasonby the Committee of Public Safety.
Considerations on France (1796); Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797); The Genius of Christianity (1802); The Pope (1819); St Petersburg Dialogues (1821); Democracy in America (1835)
Nantes, in particular, was besieged by the tragedies of the French civil war in the Vendée at its doorstep. Threats of epidemics and starvation were always present. Battles, skirmishes, and police actions led to the incarceration of more than ten thousand prisoners of war within its confines, and simply feeding them became enormous burden for ...
t. e. Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just[ a ] (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major ...
The Tribunal, from La Démagogie en 1793 à Paris by Dauban (H. Plon; 1868) The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal) [1] was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. In October 1793, it became one of the most powerful ...
Great Fear. The Great Fear (French: Grande Peur) was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring. Fuelled by rumours of an aristocrats' "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, both ...
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, Aquitani and Belgae. The Gauls, the largest group, were Celtic people speaking Gaulish.
466. Theodoric II was murdered and succeeded by his younger brother Euric as king of the Visigoths, declaring total independence from Roman influence and extending during his reign the Visigothic kingdom to most of the Iberian Peninsula. 485. Euric died and was succeeded by his son Alaric II as king of the Visigoths.