What is reign of terrior
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a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
Explanation:
The term Reign of Terror is an interesting and somewhat misleading label. It might suggest, in one view, that revolutionary terror was so pervasive in France during this period as to have been virtually inescapable, yet in many areas of the country there were few, if any, executions in 1793 and 1794. Alternatively, the label might be taken to refer to the dictatorial power of the Committee of Public Safety, the group of twelve deputies who assumed executive authority during the Terror, or to Maximilien Robespierre, who was accused by his opponents of aspiring to dictatorial power. Yet, the Terror, for all of its ferocity and its many victims, was a legal policy, and those condemned to die on the guillotine or by other means were, in the majority, charged with specific crimes and convicted by official tribunals. Those who instituted the Terror did so, at least in part, with the goal of curbing popular violence.
The term Reign of Terror is an interesting and somewhat misleading label. It might suggest, in one view, that revolutionary terror was so pervasive in France during this period as to have been virtually inescapable, yet in many areas of the country there were few, if any, executions in 1793 and 1794. Alternatively, the label might be taken to refer to the dictatorial power of the Committee of Public Safety, the group of twelve deputies who assumed executive authority during the Terror, or to Maximilien Robespierre, who was accused by his opponents of aspiring to dictatorial power. Yet, the Terror, for all of its ferocity and its many victims, was a legal policy, and those condemned to die on the guillotine or by other means were, in the majority, charged with specific crimes and convicted by official tribunals. Those who instituted the Terror did so, at least in part, with the goal of curbing popular violence.Terror became the "order of the day" in Revolutionary France in the fall of 1793, following an uprising in Paris on 4 and 5 September that occurred in response to escalating food prices and news that the city of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast of France, had fallen to the British. Some would mark the Terror as beginning, however, with the execution of King Louis XVI in January 1793, or with the creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal in March 1793, or with the consolidation of the power of the Committee of Public Safety in July 1793. The end of the Reign of Terror is easier to designate—it came with the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794).