It did not discriminate by age, sex or social status.
While intended to seek out the enemies of the French Revolution, it was often used against political opponents and to settle old grudges.
The Reign of Terror was between September of 1793 and July of 1794. This period of violence marked the beginning of the French Revolution. During this time internal and external enemies of the Republic were executed, usually by guillotine. A small portion were of the wealthy class, but a majority were the lower classes accused of hoarding and evading the draft.
In theory at least, it was the enemies of the French Revolution. In practice it was anyone who was an enemy of the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety.
Everyone who opposed to the Jacobean and Robespierre's government.
the Reign of Terror
The reign of terror was incited by a conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins. The Jacobins gained control of the committee of public safety, and at this point Maximilien Robespierre made his entrance quickly becoming the most influential member of the Committee as it moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies. The reign of terror was located in Paris..
It was significant because the radical jacobins used fear to persuade the citizens.
They were allowed to execute, they were responsible for thousands of executions, in what was known as the, "Reign of Terror "
the invasion of french by several foreign armies
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
Hitler's Reign of Terror was created in 1934.
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.
Robespierre was responsible for the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. He was eventually guillotined.
Robespierrie started the Reign of Terror, and it came to an end when he was arrested and guillotined by his enemies.
Reign of Terror - demo - was created in 1984-10.
There was no such thing as a reign of terror in the Roman Empire
all the rich people were murdered in the reign of terror
A group of conspirators ended the Reign of Terror, and Robespierre went to the guillotine.