THIS PRESENTATION COVERS SOME OF THE DEVASTATING EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE COURSE OF FRENCH REVOLUTION LIKE THE SEPTEMBER MASSACRE, THE REIGN OF TERROR ETC.

2. APRIL 6 1792 NATIONAL CONVENTION CREATES COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
SEP 1 GENERAL MOBILIZATION, CITIZENTS SENT TO THE FRONT
SEP 2 DANTON INSTIGATES THE MASSACRE OF ABOUT 1200 ROYALISTS
SEP 5 REIGN OF TERROR BEGINS; LASTS MORE THAN 10 MONTHS
SEP 21 FRANCE IS DECLARED REPUBLIC

3. JAN 21 1793 LOUIS XVI EXCECUTED
OCT 16 MARIE ANTOINETTE IS EXECUTED
JUNE 24 CONSTITUTION OF 1793 IS ESTABLISHED
SEP 29 ROBESPIERRE’S MAXIMUM IMPLEMENTS CEILING ON PRICES
OCT 16 MARIE ANTONETTE IS EXECUTED
JULY 28 1794 ROBESPIERRE’S IS OVERTHROWN
DEC 24 MAXIMUM IS REPEALED, PRICES SKY ROCKET

4. • MAXMILIEN ROBESPIERRE- JACOBIAN LEADER WHO SIEZED CONTROL OF
NATIONAL CONVENTION AND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC
SAFETY; LATER INSTITUTED REIGN OF TERROR,
TARGETTING THOSE WHOSE PHILOSOPHIES DIFFERED
FROM HIS OWN
• GEORGE DANTON - LONGTIME JACOBIAN AND CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF
ROBESPIERRE WHO WAS EXECUTED AFTER HE BEGAN
QUESTIONING THE EXTREMES TO WHICH ROBESPIERRE
WAS GOING IN THE REIGN OF TERROR

5. • KING LOUIS XVI AND QUEEN MARIE ANTONITTE
• GIRONDINS -NAME GIVEN TO MODERATES IN THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
• JACOBINS -RADICAL WING OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE NATIONAL
CONVENTION, LED BY ROBESPIERRE

6. • GEORGES- JACQUES DANTON
• CHIEF FORCE IN THE OVERTHROW OF MONARCHY AND
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC
• ELECTED MINISTER OF JUSTICE BY THE LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY
• DOMINATED HIS COLLEGUES
• SEP 2 – DANTON IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
DELIVERED THE MOST FAMOUS SPEECH

7. “TO CONQUER THE ENEMIES OF THE FATHER LAND, WE
NEED DARING, MORE DARING, DARING NOW AND
ALWAYS AND”
FRANCE IS SAVED

8. 2-3 SEP 1992

9. • “FIRST TERROR” OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
• MADE A PROFOUND IMPRESSION ABROAD WHERE
THEY WERE PUBLICIZED AS PROOF OF THE
HORRORS OF REVOLUTION
• THE CITY HAD BEEN A SCENE OF VIOLENCE AND
BLOODSHED

10. • THERE WAS NO AUTHORITATIVE BODY OTHER THAN RADICAL COMMUNE
• THE PRISONS WERE FULL OF INMATES, MOST OF WHOM HAD BEEN
ROUNDED UP BY THE COMMUNE AND THE MOB AFTER THE TUILERIES
ASSAULT IN AUGUST
• THE MASSACRES WAS AN EXPRESSION OF THE COLLECTIVE MENTALITY IN
.
PARIS IN THE DAYS AFTER THE OERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY
• THE ACTUAL KILLING BEGAN ON SEP 2
• IN THE NEXT 4 DAYS, THE MASSACRE SPREAD TO THE OTHER PRISONS OF
THE CITY
• THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES WERE POWERLESS TO STOP THEM
• ABOUT 1200 PRISONERS WERE KILLED

11. • BRUTAL KILLING
• MEANWHILE, VOLUNTEERS WERE POURING INTO THE ARMY AS THE
REVOLUTION HAD AWAKENED FRENCH NATIONALISM
• HAPPENS IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE WAR
• FOLLOWS THE REIGN OF TERROR

13. • THE TERROR / LA TERREAUR
• SEP 5, 1793 – JULY 29, 1794
• CAUGHT UP IN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN WAR, THE REVOLUTIONARY
GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO MAKE “TERROR” THE ORDER OF THE DAY
• HARSH MEASURES AGAINST ENEMIES (NOBLES, PRIESTS,
HOARDERS)
• IN PARIS –WAVE OF WAVE OFEXECUTION FOLLOWED

14. MONARCHY ABOLISHED
• NATIONAL CONVENTION
• SUFFRAGE TO ALL MALE CITIZENS
• VOTED TO ABOLISH MONARCHY
• DECLARED FRANCE AS REPUBLIC
• DEATH OF KING AND QUEEN

15. THE CONVENTION DEFENDS THE REPUBLIC
• COUNTRY AT WAR AT ALL SIDES WITH
EUROPE
• VENDEE REGION- PRIESTS LED
PEASANT REBELLION AGAINST THE
GOVERNMENT
• SANS- CULOTTES DEMANDED RELIEF
FROM FOOD SHORTAGE AND INFLATION
SANS CULOTTES

16. • 12 MEMBER COMMITTEE ALMOST
LED ABSOLUTE POWER
• PREPARED FRANCE FOR ALL OUT
WAR BETWEEN REBELS IN THE
COUNTRY AND EUROPE
MARIE ANTOINETTE TO TRIAL

19. ROBESPIERRE
• LEADER OF THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
• THE INCORRUPTABLE
• “TERROR IS THE ONLY JUSTICE, PROMPT, SECURE AND INFLUXIBLE”
• “LIBERTY CANNOT BE SECURED UNLESS CRIMINALS LOSE THEIR HEADS”
• FESTIVAL OF SUPREME BEING

21. • OVER 40,000 PEOPLE
WERE KILLED
• GUILLOTIN BECAME A
SYMBOL OF HORROR
• REIGN OF TERROR
CONSUMED IT’S OWN
• ROBESPIERRE WAS
ARRESTED , EXECUTED