The Reign of Terror
Power to execute political enemies
suspected of being an enemy of the revolution
A constitutional monarchy was set up, after King Louis
and his queen , Marie Antoninette, tried to flee the country,
they were arrested, tried for treason an were beheaded.
Control of the government passed to Robespierre and other
radicals, the extreme Jacobins and the Reign of Terror followed
in 1793, when thousands of French nobles and others
considered enemies of the revolution were executed. To deal
with external opposition, it had established a
Committee of Public Safety with the power to execute anyone
suspected of being an enemy of the revolution.
As head of this committee, Robespierre was respnsible for the
deaths of some 50,000 people during the Reign of Terror.
Ironically, when he was ousted from the Committee of Public Safety,
the man who had begun and supervised the Reign of Terror
found himself condemned as excessively radical and faced the
same guillotine on July 28, 1794 to which he had sent so many
political enemies.
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