Napoleonic Era
The reign of terror was a period between 1794 and 1795 and lasted 10 months. France did not have a monarch anymore, for the French revolutionists had killed their royal family in 1793.
livre was the unit of currency in France before 1794...
He was placed under house arrest in 1794 because his association with the Robespierres. He was exiled to Elba which was a far cry from doing hard time. His exile on St. Helena was more restrictive since he was a known flight risk, but he still had his retinue and servants.
Because the violence at times was apparently random and petty, involving personal grudges that resulted in the naming of individuals as traitors to the French Revolution. (For example the great chemist and biologist Antoine Lavosier was charged by Jean-Paul Marat with selling watered down tobacco among other crimes. Lavosier had once denied standing to a scientific invention by Marat that he considered preposterous. One of the greatest minds in the world was guillotined on 8 May 1794 simply because Marat held a big, big, big, big, big grudge).
Louis XVI was executed on the 21st of January 1793. Robespierre was executed on the 28th of July 1794. So there were just over 18 months between the two executions.
He was the de facto leader of France between 1793 and 1794. He was born in 1758 and he was executed in 1794.
Terror
1793, 1794
The reign of terror
J. B. Sirich has written: 'The revolutionary committees in the departments of France, 1793-1794'
the period from 1793-1794 is referred to as reign of terror.Robespiere followed a policy of severe control and punishment on those whom he saw being enemies of the republic were arrested imprisoned and then were hanged by a revolutionary tribunal.
July 1793 to July 1794
The reign of terror was a period between 1794 and 1795 and lasted 10 months. France did not have a monarch anymore, for the French revolutionists had killed their royal family in 1793.
The thermidorean reaction was the dismantling of the machinery of the reign of terror. The Reign of Terror occurred in France from 1793 to 1794.
July 1793 to July 1794
The creation of Democratic-Republican societies in 1793 and 1794 was revealing. It showed that there were Americans who were starting to show vigorous support for a grassroots democracy.
1793 to 1794