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Why was the period from 1793 to 1794 referred to as the 'Reign of Terror' ?
CBSE Class IX Social Science SA (3 Marks)

Answer 1

The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794), also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the ...