Reign of Terror culminated in the disgrace and execution of Robespierre and Saint-Just in 1794. The Thermidorian Reaction shunned the Montagnard Constitution and eventually supplanted it by the Constitution of 1795, which established the Directory. Legacy The revolutionaries of 1848 were inspired by this constitution, and after 1870 it passed into the ideology of the Third Republic as well. The document represents a fundamental and historic shift in political priorities, one which contributed much to later democratic institutions and developments. Timeline of French constitutions References Bibliography Alpaugh, Micah. "The Right of Resistance to Oppression: Protest and Authority in the French Revolutionary World," French Historical Studies 39, no. 3 (Summer 2016), 567–98. External links Preface to Constitution of 1793 with a declaration of the rights of man and citizen including right to rebellion 1793: French Republic Constitution of 1793 - Online Library of Liberty 1793 in law Constitution Defunct constitutions 1793 events of the French Revolution Constitutions of France Legal history of France 1793 documents Maximilien Robespierre