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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. [33]
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 be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
The committee was also responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror—for instance, the levée en masse passed on 23 August 1793, the Law of Suspects passed on 17 September 1793 and the Law of the General Maximum passed on 29 ...
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 ...
The Law of Suspects, actually a decree rather than a law, was based on a proposal by Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, approved by the National Convention of the French First Republic. [7] [8] It supplemented an earlier law of 10 March 1793, which created the revolutionary tribunals but contained a much ...
The next executions, from 29 December 1793 (9 Nivôse, Year II) to 18 January 1794 (29 Nivôse, Year II), were known as the Galiot Drownings (French: Noyades des galiotes). Two-masted Dutch galiots – small trade ships – moored in Nantes as a result of a naval blockade , were moved on this occasion to the quay next to the Coffee Warehouse ...
The Federalist revolts were uprisings that broke out in various parts of France in the summer of 1793, during the French Revolution. They were prompted by resentments in France's provincial cities about increasing centralisation of power in Paris , and increasing radicalisation of political authority in the hands of the Jacobins . [ 1 ]