The "Republic ofVirtue" was a period in French history (1793-1794) where Maximilien Robespierre remained in power.
The Reign of Terror (27 June 1793 - 27 July 1794), was a period of violence that occurred for one year and two months after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution."
they believed it would be the start of "republic of virtue"
Maxamillian Robespierre
The reign or terror started when the Jacobins gained control over the French government. Robespierre advocated for a Republic of Virtue and guillotined whomever he thought did not "support" the revolution. Of course, you can imagine France was plunged into a state of terror because thousands of citizens were being executed.
the Reign of Terror
The Republic of France.
they believed it would be the start of "republic of virtue"
Maxamillian Robespierre
It was devoid of every conceivable virtue.
The reign or terror started when the Jacobins gained control over the French government. Robespierre advocated for a Republic of Virtue and guillotined whomever he thought did not "support" the revolution. Of course, you can imagine France was plunged into a state of terror because thousands of citizens were being executed.
the Reign of Terror
The year was 1793.
The Republic of France.
"If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless"
The Reign of Terror.
Germany had the Holocaust. France had the Reign of Terror.
The Reign of Terror was called The reign of Terror because hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Royalists, people who supported the Royalists and anyone who was thought to be a threat was violently beheaded.
the guillotine because it was used so often during the reign of terror and most of all the Great terror, which occurred during the reign of terror