Title: The 14 Bloodiest, Most Horrific Moments of the French Revolution
Headings: The 14 Darkest Moments Of The French Revolution
The 14 Darkest Moments Of The French Revolution
The Princesse de Lamballe Was Attacked In The Streets Of Paris
French Troops Slew Thousands Of Peasants In The Vendée
Robespierre Led The Reign Of Terror, Which Claimed 27,000 Lives
At Least 1,800 People Were Executed By Drowning At Nantes

Content: about 17,000 were executed and 10,000 perished in prison. Though violence in the revolution neither began nor ended with the Reign of Terror, it's clear this period was an exceptionally chilling moment in the revolution. Maximilien Robespierre was a Jacobin (a radical who believed that violence was necessary to establish order) and passionately believed in the Terror. Though the guillotine was adopted by moderate, Enlightenment-minded revolutionary reformers, who thought it would give condemned criminals a kind, swift end, Robespierre and the Jacobins used it with gusto. For its part, the public loved it, and guillotining enemies of the revolution became a public spectacle . The Reign of Terror claimed scores of victims. Among them: feminist revolutionary Olympe de Gouges; King Louis XVI; Queen Marie Antoinette, who by all accounts met her fate with dignity;