Question

what were the changes seen in the regime of the robespierre's government?

Answer 1

Maximilien Robespierre has always provoked strong feelings. For the English he is the ‘sea-green incorruptible’ portrayed by Carlyle, the repellent figure at the head of the Revolution, who sent thousands of people to their death under the guillotine. The French, for the most part, dislike his memory still more. There is no national monument to him, though many of the revolutionaries have had statues raised to them. Robespierre is still considered beyond the pale; only one rather shabby metro station in a poorer suburb of Paris bears his name.

Answer 2

Robespierre's government apart from being remembered for the Reign of Terror undertook many laws similar to present-day socialist policies and welfare state.

(i) Laws were issued placing a maximum ceiling on wages and prices.

(ii) Meat and bread were rationed.

(iii) Peasants were forced to sell grain at fixed prices by the government.

(iv) All citizens were made to eat bread made of wheat flour.

(v) Equality was practised by forms of speech and address.

(vi) Slavery was abolished in French colonies.

(vii) Churches were shutdown and buildings converted to barracks or offices.