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According to French historian Jean-Clément Martin, there was no "system of terror" instated by the Convention between 1793 and 1794, despite the pressure from some of its members and the sans-culottes. [7]
The insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (French: Journées du 31 mai et du 2 juin 1793, lit. ' Day of 31 May to 2 June 1793 '), during the French Revolution, started after the Paris commune demanded that 22 Girondin deputies and members of the Commission of Twelve should be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
However, it was the Law of Suspects (French: Loi des suspects) approved by the National Convention of the French First Republic on 17 September 1793 that swept the nation with "revolutionary paranoia". [3] This decree defined a broad range of conduct as suspicious in the vaguest terms, and did not give individuals any means of redress.
The Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité de salut public) was a committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror, a violent phase of the French Revolution.
The French Revolutionary Wars re-escalated as 1793 began. New powers entered the First Coalition days after the execution of King Louis XVI on 21 January. Spain and Portugal were among these. Then, on 1 February France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands.
The Law of Suspects (17 September 1793) greatly increased the number of prisoners who were imprisoned and might be brought to trial. [14]: 257–258 Between October and the end of 1793 the Tribunal issued 177 death sentences. [15] Similar tribunaux révolutionnaires were also in operation in the various French departments. However, on 16 April ...
On 4 December 1793, 60 of the condemned were killed using three cannon loaded with grape shot, and a further 208 or 209 were killed in the same way the next day. The killings ordered by the Commission took place on open ground in the Les Brotteaux quarter, near to the granary at La Part-Dieu. This method of killing was abandoned on 17 December ...
15–16 October – French Revolution: Battle of Wattignies – A French Republican force commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan compels a Habsburg Austrian Coalition army to retire. 16 October – French Revolution: Marie Antoinette , the widowed queen consort of Louis XVI of France , is guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the ...