1. The French Revolution
1789-1799
LifeLearn
25 October 2010
Session VI Terreur (Terror)
I. Twelve Who Ruled
A. intro
B. the twelve: Barère, Billaud-Varenne, Carnot,
Couthon, Collot-d’Herbois, Herault de Séchelles,
Lindet, Prieur of the Côte d’Or, Prieur of the Marne,
Robespierre, Jeanbon Saint-André, Saint-Just
C. brief intro biographies
II. Beginnings
A. events leading up to 5 September 1793
1. war- the First Coalition, civil war in the Vendée,
“federalism”
2. inflation famine for the poor
3. army desertions
a. Dumouriez (March 1793)
4. the First Coalition draws closer to Paris
B. creation of the Committee (of Public Safety)
1. comité de salute publique (7 April 1793)
2. Committee of General Security (surété)
a. together known as the governing committees
C. Enragés & journée of 2 June
1. Marat assassiné (13 July)
D. the journée of 5 September
1. the Sections and the Commune
2. demands and their outcomes
a. “Make terror the order of the day” –Barère
b. Revolutionary Army
D. the Law of Suspects; (17 September)
1. the General Maximum
2. the Revolutionary Government (10 October)
3. 16 October-key executions
a. Marie Antoinette
b. the Girondists

2. III. The “Foreign Plot” and 14 Frimaire
A. “Foreign Plot”
1. the “cover-up”
a. Fabré d’Églantine
b. the French East India Company looting by “patriots”
2. Robespierre’s reaction
a. attack on dechristianization as a “Foreign Plot”
b. the fete of Reason in Notre-Dame cathedral
c. Robespierre’s speech at the Jacobins
B. 14 Frimaire
1. Billaud-Varenne’s speech
2. The law of 14 Frimaire
a. terms
b. consequences
IV. Terror in the Provinces
A. the Auvergne
1. Couthon comes home
2. Lyons
B. Brittany
1.Nantes
a. “Infernal Columns” destroy the Vendée
b. Carrier and the drownings
V. Virtue and Terror?
A. “the Narrow Way”
1. trying to find the correct revolutionary path
B. Ventôse
1. the pace of the terror accelerates
C. the Hébertists
1. a turning point-reaction begins
D. the Dantonists
11. eliminating the “other side” of the narrow way
E. Fête de l’Etre Suprême
1.Robespierre at the height of his influence
jbp
18 September 2010