Title: The French Revolution (1789–1799): The Reign of Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction: 1792–1795 | SparkNotes
Headings: The French Revolution (1789–1799)
The French Revolution (1789–1799)
The Reign of Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction: 1792–1795
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Louis XVI
Maximilien Robespierre
Lazare Carnot
Georges Danton
The National Convention and the French Republic
The Execution of Louis XVI
The Committee of Public Safety
The Jacobins’ Coup

Content: 1795–1799
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The Reign of Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction: 1792–1795
Summary The Reign of Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction: 1792–1795
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Events
September 22, 1792
France is declared a republic
January 21, 1793
Louis XVI is executed
April 6
National Convention creates Committee of Public Safety
June 24
Constitution of 1793 is established
September 5
Reign of Terror begins; lasts more than ten months
September 29
Robespierre’s Maximum implements ceiling on prices
October 16
Marie-Antoinette is executed
July 27, 1794
Robespierre is overthrown
December 24
Maximum is repealed; prices skyrocket
Key People
Louis XVI
French king; executed by new republican government in January 1793
Maximilien Robespierre
Jacobin leader who seized control of National Convention and Committee of Public Safety; later instituted Reign of Terror, targeting those whose philosophies differed from his own
Lazare Carnot
Military strategist who helped reorganize the French war effort and successfully defended the country against foreign invaders
Georges Danton
Longtime Jacobin and close associate of Robespierre who was executed after he began questioning the extremes to which Robespierre was going in the Reign of Terror
The National Convention and the French Republic
In the autumn of 1792, the revolutionary government, having written off the idea of a constitutional monarchy, set about electing a National Convention of delegates to oversee the country. In late September, therefore, the first election took place under the rules of the Constitution of 1791. As it turned out, only a third of the newly elected convention members had sat on a previous assembly, and a great number of new faces belonged to either the Jacobins or the Girondins . The first action of the convention, on September 21, 1792, was to abolish the monarchy.